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Lumen5

AI-powered platform that turns blog posts, articles, and other text content into short marketing and social media videos.

Lumen5 launched in 2017 out of Vancouver, Canada, founded by Michael Cheng, Christopher Bowal, and Nigel Gutzmann. The company grew out of the Creative Destruction Lab startup program with the goal of making video marketing accessible to non-video-editors. The platform uses AI to analyze text input (a blog post, article, or script) and automatically match it with relevant stock footage, images, and music to produce short-form marketing videos, primarily for social media. It targets marketers, content teams, and small businesses that want to repurpose written content into video without hiring editors. Lumen5 has raised early funding from sources including Innovate BC and the Creative Destruction Lab, followed by a later-stage round led by Pitango in December 2022. The company reports several thousand paying customers and multi-million-dollar annual revenue.

Founded

2017

Headquarters

Vancouver, Canada

Sector

applications