Tavus
tavus.io
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Multimodal AI
Generative Video
Conversational AI
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$58M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$40M
Series B · Nov 2025 · 11 mo ago
Team
32
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +52% in a year
Hiring now
18
+5 posted in 30 days
Backers
6
Y Combinator, High Alpha
The money's age
Fresh money
11 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
56/100
hiring for its size, a new city, 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
Jan 14
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: Sparrow-1 – Audio-native model for human-level turn-taking without ASR
2025
Team of 32 was 21 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Nov 13, 2025
Raised a round Series B $40M · led by CRV · Pulse 2.0
Mar 5, 2025
Launched Tavus Introduces Phoenix-3, Raven-0, and Sparrow-0: A Family of Models Powering the First AI Agents That Truly See, Hear, and Engage in Real-Time, Fa… · businesswire.com
Mar 12, 2024
Raised a round Series A $18M · TechCrunch
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2020
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.39%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Nov 2025 | $40M | CRV lead, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, HubSpot, FLEX Capital | Pulse 2.0 |
| Series A | Mar 2024 | $18M | — | TechCrunch |
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
High Alpha 
CRV 
Scale Venture Partners 
Sequoia Capital 
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How Tavus hires
Truth index
C 57/100
Ghost roles
72%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Tavus scores C on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 18 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 72% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. 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
News
Sparrow-2: Beyond Turn-Taking to Whole-Scene Conversational Understanding
Sparrow-2 is a real-time conversational understanding model that jointly models turn-taking, interruptions, backchannels, and the full acoustic scene as a single, unified system. It is an audio-native, streaming-first engine, rebuilt from the ground up, t
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Phoenix-4: Real-Time Human Rendering with Emotional Intelligence
Phoenix-4 is the first real-time model to generate and control emotional states, active listening behavior, and continuous facial motion as a single, unified system. It is a real-time behavior generation engine, built from the ground up, that goes beyond
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Sparrow-1: Human-Level Conversational Timing in Real-Time Voice
Sparrow-1 is a specialized, multilingual audio model for real-time conversational flow and floor transfer. It predicts when a system should listen, wait, or speak, enabling response timing that mirrors human conversation rather than simply responding as f
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Tavus Announces AI Santa 2.0: The World's First Emotionally Intelligent Holiday PAL
Tavus, the leading human computing company building lifelike AI humans that can see, hear, respond, and take actions, today announced AI Santa 2.0, the most ...
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Tavus Raises $40 Million Series B to Advance Emotionally Intelligent AI Humans and Define the Future of Human Computing
Tavus has raised $40 million in Series B funding to advance the field of human computing, led by CRV with participation from Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, HubSpot Ventures, and Flex Capital. The funding supports Tavus's mission to
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Tavus Introduces Phoenix-3, Raven-0, and Sparrow-0: A Family of Models Powering the First AI Agents That Truly See, Hear, and Engage in Real-Time, Face-to-Face Interaction
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Tavus: Generative AI Video Research Company Closes $18 Million In Series A
Leading generative AI video research company Tavus revealed that it raised $18 million in Series A funding late last year in a round led by Scale Venture Partners. Rory O'Driscoll joined the company's board of directors. Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Hub
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Generative AI video startup Tavus raises $18M to bring face and voice cloning to any app
Generative AI startup Tavus raised $18M and opened its platform to developers looking to enable "digital replica" creation in their own apps.
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Tavus taps generative AI to power personalized videos with voice and face cloning
Tavus enables companies to create "unique" videos tailored to a specific individual, based entirely on a single initial recording.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Tavus over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
37
Postings analysed
14
Stack modernity
82/100AI adopter
Languages
Python36%
SQL21%
JavaScript14%
TypeScript7%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch21%
CUDA14%
Asyncio7%
Apache TVM7%
Cloud & platforms
CUDA Toolkit14%
AWS7%
Amazon EKS7%
Apollo7%
AI & ML
LLM14%
Claude7%
Gaussian Splatting7%
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37 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
69/100
Growing
Open positions
19
5 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
192 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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
33% ▲
AI/ML
17% ▲
HR
17% ▲
Customer Success
17% ▲
Solutions
17% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added TypeScript to stack
Oct 2026
Added Mixpanel to stack
Oct 2026
Added Looker to stack
Oct 2026
Added XLA to stack
Sep 2026
Added Triton to stack
Sep 2026
Added Text-to-Speech to stack
Sep 2026
Added TensorRT to stack
Sep 2026
Added Quantization to stack
Sep 2026
Added ONNX Runtime to stack
Sep 2026
Added Model Distillation to stack
Sep 2026
Added Knowledge Distillation to stack
Sep 2026
Added Apache TVM to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
San Francisco
San Francisco
United States
HQ
17 open roles 5 posted in 90 days 18% engineering 50-200 est. staff $230k Avg Salary
hires for Marketing, Solutions, Backend
Jobs
≈ $130k – $284k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
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≈ $140k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • United States
Python
CUDA Toolkit
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Knowledge Distillation
Diffusion Models
TensorRT
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
Text-to-Speech
ONNX Runtime
Apache TVM
XLA
Model Distillation
DevOps
WebRTC
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≈ $159k – $291k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • San Francisco
Python
Asyncio
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
AI Agents
DevOps
WebRTC
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≈ $131k – $238k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 6+ years exp • San Francisco
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≈ $127k – $297k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
Edge AI
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≈ $130k – $288k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • PhD • San Francisco
Multimodal AI
Diffusion Models
PyTorch
Gaussian Splatting
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≈ $140k – $307k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • PhD • United States
Fine-tuning
Multimodal AI
PyTorch
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≈ $153k – $322k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • San Francisco
CUDA Toolkit
LLM
CUDA
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Kubernetes
Amazon EKS
Cybersecurity
SOC 2
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