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Lightricks

Private

AI Creative Tools

Founded 2013Jerusalem, Israel~600 (2025) employees
Website

Valuation

~$1.8B (2021 Series C)

Total Funding

$335M+

Profit Status

Profitable on consumer apps; investing in AI

Employees

~600

About Lightricks

Lightricks is an Israeli AI creative technology company best known for its consumer apps (Facetune, LightLeap, Videoleap) and for LTX Video — one of the fastest open-source text-to-video diffusion models, capable of generating high-quality video in real time. LTX-Video (Nov 2024) was released open-source on Hugging Face and became one of the most-downloaded video generation models. Lightricks also runs the B-Roll AI stock video platform and offers an enterprise AI content generation API.

Company History

Founded 2013 by Zeev Farbman, Yaron Inger, Nir Pochter, Itai Tsiddon, and Amit Goldstein at Hebrew University. Facetune went viral on the App Store 2013-2014. Raised Series A and grew profitable. Expanded to Videoleap, LightLeap, and Motionleap. Raised $130M Series C (2021). Released LTX-Video open-source (Nov 2024) — the first real-time text-to-video model — garnering significant AI community attention. LTX-Video 0.9.7 (2025) improved quality and motion control. Expanded into enterprise B2B AI content API.

Company Timeline

  • 2013

    Founded in Jerusalem; Facetune launched

  • 2014

    Facetune goes #1 paid app in 120 countries

  • 2021

    Series C $130M at ~$1.8B valuation

  • Nov 2024

    LTX-Video open-sourced — first real-time text-to-video diffusion model

  • 2025

    LTX-Video 0.9.7 with improved quality; B-Roll AI enterprise launch

Products & Services

Facetune (photo editing)LightLeap (sky replacement)Videoleap (AI video editor)LTX Video (open-source text-to-video)B-Roll AILightricks AI API

Company Details

Focus Area

AI Creative Tools

Stage

Private

Founded

2013

Headquarters

Jerusalem, Israel

Employees

~600 (2025)

Financial Overview

Total Funding

$335M+

Valuation

~$1.8B (2021 Series C)

Profit Status

Profitable on consumer apps; investing in AI

Key Investors

Goldman SachsInsight PartnersClalTechGreycroft

Key People

  • Zeev Farbman (CEO / Co-founder)
  • Yaron Inger (CTO / Co-founder)

Competitive Landscape

RunwayKling AIPika LabsLuma AIHeyGen

Tags

Creative AI
Video Generation
Open-Source
Mobile Apps
Israeli AI
Text-to-Video