D-ID
D-ID is a Digital Humans & Conversational Avatars company founded in 2017 and based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It has raised $48M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2022.
Founded in 2017 in Tel Aviv by Gil Perry, Eliran Kuta, and Sella Blondheim — all veterans of Israel's 8200 intelligence unit — D-ID started in face anonymization before pivoting to its "Creative Reality" platform for animating photos into talking-head videos. Its core technology generates lip-synced, expressive video from a single portrait image plus text or audio, and its newer real-time "Agents" product turns a photo into a conversational video avatar that can hold a live, two-way conversation. The company has raised roughly $48M total across disclosed rounds, with a $25M Series B in March 2022 led by Macquarie Capital. In September 2025 D-ID acquired German- and Luxembourg-based explainer-video firm simpleshow for an undisclosed sum, naming simpleshow CEO Karsten Böhrs as D-ID's president and COO.
Pioneered single-photo talking-avatar generation and pushed it into real-time conversational agents, making it a reference point for the photo-to-avatar category.
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