Tavus

Building the human layer of AI

San Francisco, United States · Founded 2021 · $64.1M raised

Employees
11–50
Founded
2021
Business Model
B2B
Website
tavus.io
Total Funding
$64.1M
Last Round
$40.0M Series BNov 2025
Rounds
3

Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.

About

At Tavus, we're building the human layer of AI. Our mission is to make human-AI interaction as natural as face-to-face interaction, enabling the human touch where it has been previously unscalable. We achieve this through pioneering research in multi-modal AI models for human perception and understanding, combined with state-of-the-art human avatar rendering and conversation models that we make accessible to developers worldwide. Our models and APIs power everything from text-to-video AI avatars to real-time conversational video experiences across industries like healthcare, recruiting, sales, education, and more. By enabling AI to see, hear, and communicate with human-like authenticity, we're creating the foundation for developers to create the next generation of AI employees, assistants, and companions.

Summary

Tavus is an Artificial Intelligence company based in San Francisco, United States, founded in 2021. It has raised $64.1M in total across 3 rounds, most recently a $40.0M Series B round in Nov 2025. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Scale Venture Partners and CRV (Charles River).

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Funding History

Series BSeries BNov 2025
$40.0M

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