Argil is a Paris-based AI video generation platform that lets creators produce hyper-realistic avatar-led videos from text or voice input. Users can train a personal AI clone from a short uploaded recording or choose from a library of pre-built avatars, then generate multilingual videos suitable for social media, advertising, education and entertainment.
The platform handles script-to-video generation end-to-end: synthesizing voice, lip-syncing the avatar, and rendering finished clips ready for posting. Argil emphasizes realism and emotional expressiveness in its avatars and supports a creator economy use case where individuals can scale their video output without spending hours in front of a camera.
Argil was founded in 2023 by Laodis Menard and Brivael Le Pogam and went through Y Combinator. The company is headquartered in the Paris region of France and serves creators, marketing teams and brand operators globally.
Argil has raised approximately €4.9 million in total funding. This includes a €1 million pre-seed round in 2023 from Seedcamp and Axeleo, followed by a €3.9 million seed round in November 2024 led by EQT Ventures, with participation from YouTuber Kwebbelkop and Charles Gorintin, CTO of Alan and a co-founding advisor at Mistral AI.
Notable traction includes adoption by YouTubers for content scaling and licensed use by celebrity estates, including Audrey Hepburn's estate, to bring classic figures back to digital audiences. Differentiators include avatar realism, multilingual output, and a pricing model that targets per-minute affordability rather than enterprise-only deployment.