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Golpo

video.golpoai.com

Golpo turns prompts and documents into editable, multilingual whiteboard explainer videos for education, marketing, and training.

HQSan Francisco, California, United States
Employees1-50
Jobs checked 4d ago
Specialization
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Business
Software Applications
Market
Educationand 1 more market values
  • Media
Ecosystem
Applications
Customers
Consumersand 1 more customers values
  • Enterprises
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Commercial Company
Ecosystem
Applications
Business
Software Applications
Specialization
Not classified
Market
Education, Media
Customers
Consumers, Enterprises
Delivery models
Hosted Software, API
Revenue models
Usage Based
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Not classified
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About

Golpo builds an AI platform that turns prompts, documents, audio, and other content into fully produced whiteboard explainer videos. It targets education, training, marketing, technical communication, and creator use cases, differentiating through prompt-based editing, multilingual generation, and a proprietary video engine.

Market

Golpo competes in the AI video-creation, explainer-video, and whiteboard-animation market, with an emphasis on training, marketing, and education. Its positioning is AI-native and communication-focused: it converts prompts and source documents into structured, narrated whiteboard videos, while Canvas adds scene-level editing and customization beyond traditional template-based animation tools.

Target Customers

Golpo targets educators, marketers, HR/L&D teams, and enterprises that need to turn curriculum, training, onboarding, compliance, or marketing materials into explainers. Its primary buyers are organizational teams and content creators seeking fast, no-code video production rather than traditional production workflows.

At a Glance

Problem

Creating clear, engaging explainer videos from existing knowledge is normally a labor-intensive production process: teams must write or refine scripts, create visuals and animations, record voiceovers, and edit the final video. That time and coordination burden makes it difficult for organizations to turn documents, lesson plans, slide decks, and internal knowledge into video quickly and economically. Golpo’s clearest use case is converting onboarding and training materials into concise whiteboard explainers that employees, students, or customers can understand more easily.

Product / Service

Golpo is a no-code, AI-powered document-to-video and text-to-video platform delivered through a web application, with API access for programmatic generation. Users provide prompts, scripts, PDFs, lesson notes, slide decks, or PowerPoint files; Golpo analyzes the material, breaks it into logical scenes, generates visuals and narration, and produces a whiteboard-style explainer video. Its Canvas workspace lets users refine scenes, scripts, diagrams, animation styles, pacing, and storytelling flow, while webcam recording and synchronized speaker-inset animations support more personalized presentations.

The benefit is a substantially shorter path from written information to a usable professional video, without requiring a conventional production team. The product is monetized through subscription tiers based on video credits, with higher plans adding color, longer videos, collaboration, voice cloning, custom narration, editing by prompt, and API access. This gives educators, marketers, creators, and corporate learning teams a self-serve way to produce and revise explainers at different levels of volume and sophistication.

Market

Golpo competes in the emerging AI video-generation market, specifically the document-to-video, text-to-video, whiteboard animation, and AI explainer-video segments. Its stated target applications are training, marketing, and education, with additional relevance to corporate onboarding, customer education, content creation, and internal communications. The available company materials position Golpo around replacing or simplifying traditional video production, but they do not identify specific named direct competitors; the evidence therefore supports a category-level competitive description rather than a definitive competitor list.

Golpo is commercially packaged rather than presented only as a prototype: it offers paid Starter, Creator, Growth, Business, and Scale plans, team seats, add-ons, and API-only access. However, the available research contains no customer counts, revenue, funding, usage, or retention figures, so it does not establish measurable market traction or prove that the company is revenue-generating. The strongest current signal is a launched product with a tiered monetization model and enterprise-oriented capabilities, while adoption remains undisclosed.

Founders & Leadership

Shreyas KarFounder
CEO and Co-founder
Shraman KarFounder
Co-founder

Funding History

2024-12
Pre-SeedUndisclosed

Afore Capital

2025-10
Pre-Seed$500K

Y Combinator

2025-10
Seed$4.1M

BNVT Capital

Recent News

2026-05-17product_launch
Golpo adds chart-aware explainer videos and custom enterprise plans

Golpo announced that it can turn uploaded charts into polished explainer videos and automatically place each chart at the appropriate point in the narrative. The company also promoted newly launched custom enterprise plans and API-based reporting workflows.

2026-03-14partnership
How Golpo API Works: Integrate AI Video Generation Into Your App

Golpo published an API guide covering authentication, REST endpoints, Python and Node.js SDKs, and programmatic generation from text and documents. The API is positioned for integrations into SaaS products, education portals, newsletters, reports, and internal tools.

2025-10-15other
Brothers Quit Stanford, Raised $4M for AI Y Combinator Startup Golpo

Business Insider profiled founders Shraman and Shreyas Kar and reported Golpo’s $4.1 million seed round led by BNVT Capital. The coverage described Golpo’s document- and prompt-to-explainer-video product and cited customers including Garnet Valley School District and EY offices.

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Business Model

Golpo monetizes video creation through paid credits, with one credit representing one minute of video and volume discounts reducing the per-credit price. It also offers API access and provides a free first-video option to attract users.

Products

Golpo AI whiteboard explainer video generatorGolpo Canvas scene editorPen-in-Hand whiteboard animation styleOwn Narration and webcam-recording featuresGolpo programmatic video-generation API

Customers

Garnet Valley School DistrictEY (offices)

Tech Stack

AI text-to-video generationDocument and prompt parsing/content structuringGenerative visual and scene animation engineAutomated narration/voiceover generationWeb-based no-code video editorREST API with Python and Node.js SDKs

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