Golpo

Sales & Marketing · Video Marketing
$4.1Mlatest round · Seed · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
1backers · Y Combinator
10+team · employees, estimated range
2024founded

Overview

Create whiteboard and illustrated explainer videos with AI from prompts, scripts, documents, audio, or video. Try a free 1-minute watermarked preview.

Key facts

These are the key facts about Golpo on Alion as of Nov 13, 2026. Golpo is headquartered in Stockton, United States. It was founded in 2024. The latest round is Seed of $4.1M, announced in 2025.

Headquarters
Stockton, United StatesAlion company profile, updated Oct 11, 2026
Founded
2024Alion company profile, updated Oct 11, 2026
Employees
10+Alion company profile, an estimated range
Total raised
$4.1MSum of 1 equity round Alion knows
Latest round
Seed · $4.1M · Oct 26, 2025Press report · pulse2.com

Funding and backers

Total raised
$4.1M
1 round on record
Latest round
$4.1M
Seed · Oct 2025 · 12 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Due for its next round
12 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 18 Launched Golpo AI Launches Golpo Canvas and Pen-in-Hand Animation to Turn Documents into Whiteboard Videos in Minutes · desertsun.com Jan 29 Launched Golpo AI Unveils Redesigned Interface and Powerful New Video Creation Features · tennessean.com Oct 26, 2025 Raised a round Seed $4.1M · Pulse 2.0 Aug 13, 2025 Launched on Hacker News Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos Jun 2025 Went through Y Combinator 2024 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 5%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
Aug 2025
116 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Oct 2025 $4.1M — Pulse 2.0
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Y Combinator S25 accelerator
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Financials

Total raised
$4.1M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2025 $4.1M Details

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News

Press release jsonline.com 8 months ago
Golpo AI Launches Golpo Canvas and Pen-in-Hand Animation to Turn Documents into Whiteboard Videos in Minutes Read more
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Press release desertsun.com 8 months ago
Golpo AI Launches Golpo Canvas and Pen-in-Hand Animation to Turn Documents into Whiteboard Videos in Minutes Read more
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Press release desertsun.com 9 months ago
Golpo AI Launches Golpo 2.0 and Announces $4.1M Seed Round to Advance AI-Native Explainer Video Creation Read more
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Press release tennessean.com 10 months ago
Golpo AI Unveils Redesigned Interface and Powerful New Video Creation Features Read more
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News fondo.com 1 year ago
Golpo Launches: The Most Powerful AI Video Generator for Explainer Videos Fondo
Golpo Launches: The Most Powerful AI Video Generator for Explainer Videos
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News Pulse 2.0 1 year ago
Golpo AI: Stanford Dropout Brothers Raise $4.1 Million For Launching AI Video Generation Platform
Golpo, an emerging AI-powered platform that transforms documents and prompts into interactive explainer videos, has secured $4.1 million in an oversubscribed seed round. BNVT Capital (a venture firm spun out of the Gates Foundation and Hedosophia) led the
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Press release financialpost.com 1 year ago
Brothers, 19 and 20, Stanford dropouts, raise $4.1M in oversubscribed seed round to build Golpo AI and reimagine AI video generation Financial Post Read more
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News Business Insider 1 year ago
Brothers, 19 and 20, quit Stanford and graduated from Y Combinator with $4 million. Read their pitch deck.
Stanford dropout brothers Shraman and Shreyas Kar have raised $4.1 million for their AI video startup, Golpo.
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Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Stockton United States
HQ
10-50 est. staff

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