Tavus

Tavus is an AI Avatar Video company founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco, United States. It has raised $64.2M in total funding, most recently a Series B in 2025.

Tavus, founded in 2020 by Hassaan Raza and Quinn Favret and based in San Francisco, is a developer platform and AI research company for building real-time conversational video avatars. Its stack is driven by proprietary foundation models including Phoenix for lifelike face rendering, Sparrow for conversational audio understanding and turn-taking, and Raven for contextual perception. In November 2025 the company raised a $40M Series B led by CRV to build what it calls 'human computing,' bringing total funding to roughly $64M.

API-first platform for embedding low-latency conversational video avatars into third-party applications.

tavus.io AI Avatar Video

United Statesprivate

At a glance

Total raised

$64.2M

last round series b

Headcount

11-50

approximate · public range

Headquarters

San Francisco

United States

Founded

2020

6 years active

Status

Private

AI Avatar Video

Subsector

Funding history

Total raised

$64.2M

Rounds tracked

Latest stage

Series B

Date	Stage	Amount	Valuation	Lead investors
Nov 11, 2025	Series B	$40M	—	CRV
Mar 12, 2024	Series A	$18M	—	Scale Venture Partners

Tavus

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Funding history

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Leadership

Products

Conversational Video Interface (CVI)

Phoenix, Sparrow & Raven models

Replica & Text-to-Video API

Open roles

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