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News
Technologies
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Products
People
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Offices
Jobs
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$22M
1 round on record
Latest round
$22M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+6 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Endeavor
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
51/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Feb 9 Acquisition HOLYWATER TECH Acquires Jeynix to Bring Hollywood-Grade AI Assisted Visual Effects In-House · businesswire.com Jan 15 Raised a round Venture round $22M · The Hollywood Reporter May 9, 2024 Released an app My Drama - Stream Short Dramas · App Store Jun 7, 2021 Released an app MyPassion: Read Novels & Books · App Store 2020 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.13%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.6 ★
90k ratings
Hacker News stories
1
best: 10 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2026 $22M — The Hollywood Reporter
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How HOLYWATER hires

Truth index
A 95/100
Median time to fill
65 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%

HOLYWATER scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 65 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

HOLYWATER TECH is an AI-first company reshaping entertainment. From books to audiobooks, interactive stories and video series, we build worlds you can explore and personalize.

News

Podcast TechCrunch 4 months ago
Runway and Holywater Tech: Two AI companies trying to upend entertainment
This week on StrictlyVC Download, we're bringing you a conversation from our recent event in Athens. Connie Loizos spoke with Anastasis Germanidis, co-founder and co-CEO of Runway, and Anatolii Kasianov, co-founder and co-CEO of Holywater Tech. Runway beg
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News Deadline 5 months ago
Microdrama Co Holywater On The Investment Round, YouTube & Disney
Bosses at microdrama company Holywater have talked their investment round, YouTube, Netflix and why vertical video is not just schlocky.
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News YahooFinance 8 months ago
HOLYWATER TECH's My Drama Debuts Wild Silence With Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Marking First TV Celebrity Turn in a Vertical Series
LOS ANGELES, February 24, 2026--HOLYWATER TECH, the AI-first technology company reshaping global entertainment through its platforms My Drama, My Passion, and My Muse, today announced the premiere of microdrama Wild Silence with Maksim Chmerkovskiy, marki
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News Deadline 8 months ago
Maksim Chmerkovskiy To Lead Vertical Series 'Wild Silence' For Holywater Microdrama Platform My Drama
Former 'Dancing with the Stars' pro Maksim Chmerkovskiy will lead the microdrama series 'Wild Silence' for the Holywater platform My Drama
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News YahooFinance 8 months ago
Microdrama Giant Holywater Acquires AI-Assisted VFX Company Jeynix, Rebrands as Holywater Tech (Exclusive)
Jeynix, founded just last year, specializes in facial animation, face replacement, de-aging, and lip-sync.
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News The Hollywood Reporter 8 months ago
Microdrama Giant Holywater Acquires AI-Assisted VFX Company Jeynix, Rebrands as Holywater Tech (Exclusive)
Microdramas company Holywater acquires AI-assisted VFX company Jeynix, rebrands as Holywater Tech.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at HOLYWATER over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
65
Postings analysed
28
Stack modernity
90/100AI adopter
Languages
Python14%
SQL7%
TypeScript7%
JavaScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
Next.js7%
React.js7%
FFmpeg4%
FastAPI4%
Databases
PostgreSQL7%
Amazon Redshift4%
Google BigQuery4%
Neo4j4%
Cloud & platforms
Runway100%
Figma11%
Okta7%
AWS7%
AI & ML
Claude21%
LLM11%
ChatGPT4%
Kling4%
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Full HOLYWATER tech stack 65 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
45/100
Stable
Open positions
16
4 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics 0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Marketing
27% ▲
Design
20%
Backend
13% ▲
Data Science
7% ▲
Product
7% ▼
Support
7% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Tableau to stack Oct 2026
Added Power BI to stack Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack Oct 2026
Added GA4 to stack Oct 2026
Added React Native to stack Oct 2026
Added SQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Snowflake to stack Oct 2026
Added GraphQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Google BigQuery to stack Oct 2026
Added dbt to stack Oct 2026
Added Amazon Redshift to stack Oct 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Kyiv
Kyiv Ukraine
HQ
15 open roles 14 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 20% remote 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Backend, Design
seen since Mar 2026 job postings

Jobs

Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
FastAPI
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Cursor
Claude Code
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
Runway
OpenAI Codex
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Apply
≈ $16k – $44k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Python
SQL
Runway
Analytics
Tableau
Power BI
Looker
Apply
≈ $23k – $67k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Runway
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Claude
Runway
Design
Figma
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Python
SQL
Snowflake
Google BigQuery
Amazon Redshift
AI/ML
dbt
Runway
Frontend
GraphQL
Apply
≈ $24k – $59k per year (Estimated) · Remote (worldwide) · Full-Time
Claude
Runway
Design
Figma
Apply
Remote (Ukraine, Portugal) · Full-Time · Kyiv · Porto
Midjourney
Runway
Design
Adobe Photoshop
Blender
Figma
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Runway
DevOps
IAM
VPN
Cybersecurity
Okta
Management
n8n
Apply
Remote (Ukraine) · Full-Time · Kyiv
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
C
Node JS
FFmpeg
Node JS
Nest.JS
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Neo4j
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
LoRA
Model Context Protocol
Fine-tuning
Function Calling
Computer Vision
AI Agents
PEFT
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Runway
GraphRAG
Human-in-the-Loop
Knowledge Graph
LLM Guardrails
Multi-Agent Systems
Mastra
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
DevOps
Docker
Apply
Hybrid · Full-Time · Kyiv
Claude
LLM
Runway
DevOps
Azure
AWS
IAM
Cybersecurity
Keycloak
Okta
ISO 27001
SOC 2
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
n8n
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$22M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $22M Details