Knowlify is an AI-powered platform for creating animated explainer videos from documents, decks, or plain text. Users can upload textbooks, PDFs, or presentations to generate professional narrated explainer videos in minutes without designers, animators, or video editors. The platform serves training, customer education, product explanation, onboarding, and internal communication needs at reduced cost and timeline versus traditional video production. Founded by a University of Florida team and part of YC's Summer 2025 batch, Knowlify has generated over 200,000 videos and partnered with major organizations.
Knowlify
ActiveThe AI Explainer Video Maker
Total raised
$3.5M
2 rounds
Stage
Seed
Oct 2025
Team
1-10
since 2025
Pricing
—
Founded
2025
San Francisco, United States
Agent-ready
—
AI explainer-video maker from documents, decks, and text
Upload of textbooks, PDFs, and presentations as source material
Automatic generation of narrated animated videos
Narration generated to accompany the animations
Video creation in minutes without designers or animators
No video editor required to produce finished output
Suited to training, onboarding, and product explanation
Designed to cut cost and timeline versus traditional video production
12/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Cumulative raise
From 2025 to 2026 · 2 rounds tracked
Total
$3.5M
Oct 2025 Seed $3M incl. Y Combinator
Jan 2025 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$3.5M raised ·1 backer·10 network links
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- What is Knowlify?
- Knowlify is an AI explainer-video maker that turns documents, decks, and text into narrated animated videos without needing designers, animators, or editors.
- What can I upload as input?
- You can upload textbooks, PDFs, and presentations, and the platform generates a narrated explainer video from them.
- How fast is video creation?
- Videos can be generated in minutes, considerably faster and cheaper than traditional video production.
- What is it used for?
- Common uses include training, customer education, product explanation, onboarding, and internal communication.
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