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Koyal

Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform

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About

Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation.

https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha.

Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099

We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai

We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views!

We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.

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Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Team size
5 employees
YC batch
Fall 2025
Status
Active
Stage
Early stage

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What does Koyal do?

Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform

Where is Koyal based?

San Francisco, CA, United States

How many people work at Koyal?

5 employees, according to the company profile.

Has Koyal raised money?

There are no funding rounds for Koyal in our data.

What are the alternatives to Koyal?

Similar startups: Magic Hour, HeartByte, and Grocalo.