Lightricks
AI Creative Tools
- Valuation
- ~$1.8B(2021 Series C)
- Total Funding
- $335M+
- Profit Status
- Profitable on consumer apps; investing in AI
- Employees
- ~600
About Lightricks
Lightricks is an Israeli AI creative technology company best known for its consumer apps (Facetune, LightLeap, Videoleap) and for LTX Video — one of the fastest open-source text-to-video diffusion models, capable of generating high-quality video in real time. LTX-Video (Nov 2024) was released open-source on Hugging Face and became one of the most-downloaded video generation models. Lightricks also runs the B-Roll AI stock video platform and offers an enterprise AI content generation API.
Company History
Founded 2013 by Zeev Farbman, Yaron Inger, Nir Pochter, Itai Tsiddon, and Amit Goldstein at Hebrew University. Facetune went viral on the App Store 2013-2014. Raised Series A and grew profitable. Expanded to Videoleap, LightLeap, and Motionleap. Raised $130M Series C (2021). Released LTX-Video open-source (Nov 2024) — the first real-time text-to-video model — garnering significant AI community attention. LTX-Video 0.9.7 (2025) improved quality and motion control. Expanded into enterprise B2B AI content API.
Company Timeline
5 milestones- 2013Founded in Jerusalem; Facetune launched
- 2014Facetune goes #1 paid app in 120 countries
- 2021Series C $130M at ~$1.8B valuation
- Nov 2024LTX-Video open-sourced — first real-time text-to-video diffusion model
- 2025LTX-Video 0.9.7 with improved quality; B-Roll AI enterprise launch
Products & Services
6- Facetune (photo editing)
- LightLeap (sky replacement)
- Videoleap (AI video editor)
- LTX Video (open-source text-to-video)
- B-Roll AI
- Lightricks AI API
People & ecosystem
Key People
- Zeev Farbman (CEO / Co-founder)
- Yaron Inger (CTO / Co-founder)
Key Investors
- Goldman Sachs
- Insight Partners
- ClalTech
- Greycroft