{"id":132251,"date":"2021-12-11T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/synthesia-raises-50m-to-leverage-synthetic-avatars-for-corporate-training-and-more"},"modified":"2021-12-11T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:27:13","slug":"synthesia-raises-50m-to-leverage-synthetic-avatars-for-corporate-training-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/synthesia-raises-50m-to-leverage-synthetic-avatars-for-corporate-training-and-more","title":{"rendered":"Synthesia raises $50M to leverage synthetic avatars for corporate training and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthesia-raises-50m-to-leverage-synthetic-avatars-for-corporate-training-and-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthesia.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Synthesia<\/a>, a startup using AI to create synthetic videos, is walking a fine, but thus far prosperous, line between being creepy and being pretty freakin\u2019 cool.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it announced the close of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from GV and existing investors Firstmark Capital, LDV Capital, Seedcamp and MMC Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Synthesia allows anyone to turn text or a slide deck presentation into a video, complete with a talking avatar. Customers can leverage existing avatars, created from the performance of actors, or create their own in minutes by uploading some video. Users also can upload a recording of their voice, which can be transformed to say just about anything under the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synthesia, a startup using AI to create synthetic videos, is walking a fine, but thus far prosperous, line between being creepy and being pretty freakin\u2019 cool. Today, it announced the close of a $50 million Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from GV and existing investors Firstmark Capital, LDV Capital, Seedcamp [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}