Nvidia and Alphabet VC Arms Back AI Startup Synthesia with $4B Valuation

Synthesia is a British artificial-intelligence firm that has already raised as much as $200 million, which allows the company to be valued at approximately $4 billion, which is almost two-fold compared to the valuation of $2.1 billion that the organization received last year. 

E-Series financing, led by major investors, including N-Ventures and GV (Google Venture) at Google, is an indication of a high-level of confidence of interactive video technologies amid AI broadly.

Funding Firepower

GV led the round, followed by others including Nvidia, Accel, NEA, Hedosophia, Evantic, Air Street Capital, and many others. This financing also enhances the competitive edge of video development of Synthesia in means of enterprise video development where about 70 % of its income is brought in by large Fortune 100 customers.

Victor Riparbelli, Synthesia’s cofounder and CEO, said in a statement,

that the funding round was “about scaling” its vision of AI reducing the cost of content creation, and AI video providing “a better, more engaging way for organizations to communicate and learn.”

Revenue Rocket

Synthesia, a London-based AI video generation platform, raised $200 million at a $4 billion valuation, nearly doubling its $2.1 billion valuation from just nine months ago.

Victor Riparbelli, CEO of Synthesia, told CNBC

that investors appraised the businesses differently from other companies in the space due to its focus on “utility”. Of course, the hype cycle is beneficial to us,”

Riparbelli said in an interview.

For us, what’s important is building an actually good business.

CFO Daniel Kim with the help of CNBC once again confirmed that the long run momentum depicts a thing, as far as the AI avatars in training and communications applications are concerned.

AI Investment Boom

In 2025, European AI startups raised a record venture capital of $21.4 notes EUR above reported by Sifted and also in 2025, OpenAI raised $40 billion, the largest private round in history; Anthropic raised $13 billion; Elon Musk’s xAI raised $10 billion; and Meta acquired data labeling startup Scale AI for nearly $15 billion.

It is estimated that by early 2026 global AI investment will be more than $24 billion and Anthropic is aiming to raise between $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion.

Interactive Edge Ahead

Capital is being directed towards agentic video solutions that can support real time conversations, role plays and personalized learning by investors. Traditional video contents have lower engagement metrics than pilot deployments. In the United Kingdom, policymakers have got behind the initiative as they consider it one of the drivers of job creation. 

With the present AI excitement at its peak, Enterprise-driven strategy and established revenue increase profile, Synthesia has the potential to surpass competitors, which focus on marketing to rival the business owing to its adoption of AI-driven agents that will rebrand corporate training by mid-2026.