Startupsby GlyphWhy it ranks
How the rank works- team of 5Team size · YC's directory+4
- went through YCProgram · this site+4
- hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2
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Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCW26 | |
| Magic HourShared: media, creator economy, videoYC W24ActiveAI, Devtools | AI, Devtools | Active | YCW24 |
| AI, Devtools | Active | YCF24 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Active | YCW23 | |
| LoomShared: media, video, contentYC W12AcquiredOther | Other | Acquired | YCW12 |
| Other | Inactive | YCS12 | |
| AI | Active | YCF24 | |
| AI | Active | YCF25 |
Also from F25 in AI
All of F25Founders
- Mehul AgarwalFounder/CEO
- Gauri AgarwalFounder/CTO
About Koyal
Koyal is an Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform that allows you to seamlessly convert script or audio into personalized, visually compelling stories. We’re a team from Carnegie Mellon, MIT and Meta, with experience in AI video generation. https://koyal.ai builds directly upon our published research at the AI conference NeurIPS in December. We’ve been covered in the international press for our patented secure personalization protocol CHARCHA: the genAI captcha. Announcement: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965866965425348687 Demo: https://x.com/meh_agarwal/status/1965137062119752099 We currently have paid pilots with the biggest global music labels, podcasts and production houses, and just launched our public beta at beta.koyal.ai We recently concluded a pilot with Universal Music and T-Series (world’s largest music label) alongside Bollywood production houses like Maddock Entertainment, and Collective Artists Network! As part of that, we launched 5 music videos for Grammy and Oscar winning artists like A R Rahman, Ricky Kej and Shankar Mahadevan all crossing 1.5 million views! We've recently built SOTA capabilities in (i) multilingual script to audio to video, (ii) Agentic lip-sync with dynamic movement & (iii) Multi-character consistency.
- YC batch
- F25 · Fall 2025
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 5
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2025
- Checked
- 7h ago
YC tags: Generative AI, Entertainment, Video, Media, Creator Economy
Koyal: questions
Which YC batch was Koyal in?
Koyal was in Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch (F25).
Is Koyal still active?
Y Combinator lists Koyal as active.
Who founded Koyal?
Koyal's founders, as listed on its YC page: Mehul Agarwal (Founder/CEO), Gauri Agarwal (Founder/CTO).
Where is Koyal based?
Koyal lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.