What is Lightricks?
Lightricks builds AI creative products, mobile editing apps, and open video models including LTX Video for creators, studios, and enterprises.
- Category
- AI creative tools and models
- Headquarters
- Jerusalem, Israel / New York, NY
- Founded
- 2013
- Employees
- Approximately 600
- Total funding
- $205M raised
- Valuation
- $1B valuation in 2019 Series C
What is Lightricks?
Lightricks is a ai creative tools and models company. Lightricks builds AI creative products, mobile editing apps, and open video models including LTX Video for creators, studios, and enterprises.
Lightricks builds AI creative products, mobile editing apps, and open video models including LTX Video for creators, studios, and enterprises. The company has historically reached large creator audiences through apps such as Facetune, Photoleap, and Videoleap and is shifting more of its AI stack toward open models and enterprise workflows. The durable market signal is that Lightricks sits close to a budget owner: security, AI platform, healthcare operations, engineering, developer productivity, or defense procurement depending on the account.
As of June 2026, the company profile is best read through product adoption, funding stage, leadership, and ecosystem partnerships rather than through public revenue, because most companies in this batch do not disclose ARR. Buyers generally evaluate Lightricks on deployment risk, integration depth, compliance posture, and measurable operational impact.
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What does Lightricks offer?
Lightricks offers products and workflows across LTX Video, Facetune, Photoleap and adjacent platform capabilities.
- LTX Video· AI video
- Facetune· Consumer app
- Photoleap· Creative app
- Videoleap· Video editing
- Open Creativity Stack· AI platform
- Model APIs and partnerships· Developer platform
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How does Lightricks make money?
Revenue is driven by app subscriptions, creator tools, model/API usage, partnerships, and commercial licensing around the Open Creativity Stack.
Revenue is driven by app subscriptions, creator tools, model/API usage, partnerships, and commercial licensing around the Open Creativity Stack. Lightricks monetizes consumer subscriptions and in-app purchases, plus emerging API, model, and enterprise creative tooling; detailed enterprise pricing is not public.
The commercial motion is enterprise-oriented: buyers pay when the platform becomes part of a production workflow, compliance program, developer process, or operational control plane. Growth is driven by more covered users or assets, deeper integrations, expansion from pilots into production, and higher support or governance requirements.
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Who leads Lightricks?
Lightricks is led by Zeev Farbman and Nir Pochter with operating leaders across product, engineering, revenue, and security or domain expertise.
- Zeev FarbmanCo-founder and CEOFounder, since 2013Computer-vision researcher and long-running CEO.
- Nir PochterCo-founderFounderPart of the original founding team.
- Yaron IngerCo-founderFounderPart of the original founding team.
- Amit GoldsteinCo-founderFounderPart of the original founding team.
How do you contact Lightricks's leadership?
Lightricks does not publish verified personal executive emails in the sources used for this profile, so leadership outreach should use the official route shown here unless a published direct contact exists.
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How much funding has Lightricks raised?
Lightricks's current public funding signal is $205M raised; latest valuation/status is $1B valuation in 2019 Series C.
2015-2018: Early rounds - about $70M cumulative. Early venture rounds supported mobile creative apps and subscription growth. Jul 2019: Series C - $135M. Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing led the Series C at a $1B valuation, bringing total funding to $205M.
Because Lightricks is private or recently acquired, public financing data should be read as a directional capital-history snapshot, not a real-time cap table. The most reliable signal is the latest announced round or transaction, combined with hiring, product expansion, and customer-market focus.
How did Lightricks get here?
Lightricks's milestones show a shift from founding and early product validation into category expansion and larger enterprise or strategic relevance.
- 2013FoundedLightricks starts in Israel as a mobile creative software company.
- 2017Videoleap recognitionVideoleap gains broad App Store recognition.
- Jul 2019Unicorn financingLightricks raises $135M at a $1B valuation.
- Dec 2024Shutterstock partnershipLightricks licenses Shutterstock video assets to train LTX Video.
- May 2025LTXV-13BThe company launches a 13B-parameter LTX Video model.
- 2026Enterprise/open creativity pushLightricks emphasizes open models, deployment flexibility, and enterprise creative workflows.
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Who are Lightricks's competitors?
Lightricks competes with focused startups and larger platform incumbents that already own adjacent enterprise workflows.
- AdobeCreative software incumbent with Firefly and Creative Cloud.
- CanvaVisual design and AI creation platform for teams and consumers.
- CapCutConsumer video editing app with strong social creator adoption.
- RunwayAI video model and editing platform for creators and studios.
- PicsartConsumer and prosumer creative editing platform.
- KreaAI creative generation and editing workspace.
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