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Koyal (YC F25) — Agentic AI filmmaking platform

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.

Koyal is a Y Combinator company in the Fall 2025 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Agentic AI Filmmaking Platform. The founders listed are Mehul Agarwal (Founder/CEO), Gauri Agarwal (Founder/CTO) (Y Combinator directory entry, September 30, 2025).

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Koyal

New accelerator entry · 2025-09-30 · the record

Fall 2025
batch
5
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchFall 2025
Announced2025-09-30
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size5
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Content
SectorsGenerative AI, Entertainment, Video, Media, Creator Economy
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://koyal.ai

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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.

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Last updated 2026-10-20
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Koyal (YC F25) — Agentic AI filmmaking platform. MentionFox, 2026-10-20. https://mentionfox.com/funding/yc-koyal