Creatify, an AI platform that powers high-performance video advertising, announced $15.5 million in Series A funding, co-led by WndrCo and Kindred Ventures. The funding round brings Creatify’s total funding to $23 million, with early investors including NFDG, Millennium New Horizons, Creator Ventures, and Leadout Capital.
Used by over a million marketers and 10,000+ teams — including Alibaba.com, Comcast, Binance, NewsBreak, Tec-do, and Zumper — Creatify utilizes GenAI models and integrated workflow tools to automate the entire video ad lifecycle, from creative inspiration and generation to testing and optimization. And the company recently surpassed $9 million in annual recurring revenue within 18 months of launch.
AdMax Launch: The funding coincided with the launch of AdMax, the first end-to-end AI ad agent that combines creative inspiration, production, testing, and performance analytics in a single workflow. And AdMax introduces:
1.) Ad monitoring that turns top competitor and category ads into actionable campaigns
2.) AI-powered video generation that creates dozens of UGC-style and product showcase videos in minutes
3.) 700+ AI-generated avatars enabling multilingual, cross-platform execution without traditional production costs
4.) Creative testing engine built for Meta and TikTok, optimized for ROAS and CPA
5.) API access and team workspaces that streamline video production at scale while maintaining brand consistency
Brands using the service: Zumper now produces over 300 videos monthly with Creatify, saving $20,000 per month. NewsBreak advertisers are launching tailored creatives in minutes, not days, with better performance across audience segments.
How the funding will be used: The team plans to use the funding to expand R&D and customer success and roll out new features like AI-driven market insights and cross-platform publishing.
KEY QUOTES:
“Video is the most valuable format in digital advertising, but it’s still the hardest to produce at scale. We built Creatify to remove these barriers. Just as Shopify revolutionized e-commerce, we’re doing the same for video ads—making them fast, effective, and accessible to businesses of all sizes.”
Creatify co-founder and CEO Yinan Na
“Great technology turns storytelling into real business results. Creatify represents the next leap forward. It’s not just making video ads easier to produce, it’s redefining how modern advertising works. In a world where brands must show up everywhere, all the time, Creatify is purpose-built to meet that demand at scale.”
Jeffrey Katzenberg, Founding Partner at WndrCo, who will join Creatify’s board of directors
“Generative media and LLMs are making a profound impact in how people and brands market and advertise their ideas and products. Creatify’s AI agent collapses the slow, expensive, and constrained process of making and deploying video ads into a modern, super fast, and high-fidelity experience. We’re thrilled to back Creatify on this mission to reinvent the global advertising market using generative AI.”
Steve Jang, Founding Partner at Kindred Ventures and early investor in Uber, Coinbase, and Perplexity
“If we want TV advertising to evolve and grow the way advertising has in social media, we need to make the process much easier. It’s innovative companies like Creatify who are identifying the biggest obstacles such as ad creation and then building the solutions that invite brands of all sizes to take advantage of the incredible benefits of TV advertising.”
James Borow, Vice President of Product and Engineering, Universal Ads, Comcast
“We want to make advertising on NewsBreak as fast, easy, and effective as possible. Creatify’s Ad Creation tool removes creative roadblocks, giving advertisers a simple way to create high-quality video creatives in a matter of minutes–rather than days or weeks of working with a creative agency. Our most successful advertisers launch multiple creatives tailored to different audiences, monitor performance data, and quickly adjust their strategy. With Creatify, more advertisers now have the tools to do exactly that — efficiently and at scale.”
Ryan Ludlow, General Manager at NewsBreak
