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The AI Explainer Video Maker

Knowlify makes it easy for companies to create animated explainer videos using AI. Upload any document and/or prompt deck to get a professional explainer video in minutes - no designers, animators, or video editors needed. Teams use Knowlify to produce training videos, customer literacy videos, product explainers, onboarding content, and internal communications at a fraction of the traditional cost and timeline. Available as a self-serve platform or a fully managed service.
Active Founders
Ritam Rana
Ritam Rana
Founder
Revolutionizing the way people learn
Jonathan Maynard
Jonathan Maynard
Founder
Building @ Knowlify (YC S25) | I am passionate about physics, machine learning research, and changing the way people learn.
Arjun Talati
Arjun Talati
Founder
creating videos that will change how people learn
Ritvik Varada
Ritvik Varada
Founder
Building Knowlify: videos for learning, Former Quant @ WorldQuant
Company Launches
Knowlify: The ElevenLabs for explainer videos
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Knowlify โ€” The AI video company for business

๐Ÿ“™ TL;DR

Your team writes great docs that nobody reads. Knowlify turns those docs and ideas into narrated, animated videos โ€” make them yourself on our platform in minutes, or have our studio produce them for you. Backed by Y Combinator and already used by teams at Amazon, ByteDance, Flexport, Supabase, and Cerebras.

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Who We Are

We're Ritam, Jon, Ritvik, and Arjun โ€” four friends who met at the University of Florida. We started Knowlify because we were tired of dense material nobody actually absorbs. We began by helping learners turn confusing content into clear explainer videos, and something kept happening: it wasn't just students who needed this. Onboarding teams, training managers, marketers, and comms leads kept asking us to turn their documents into video too.

So we followed the pull. Today Knowlify is the AI video company for business.

The Problem

Every company runs on documents โ€” onboarding guides, SOPs, training manuals, product specs, safety procedures, internal updates. And almost nobody reads them.

  • People retain far more from a short video than from a wall of text, yet most company knowledge still lives in PDFs and slide decks.
  • Making real video is slow and expensive. A single explainer from an agency can cost thousands of dollars and take weeks.
  • Teams need more video than they could ever have time or budget to make โ€” so most of their content never becomes video at all.

The result is a constant gap between the volume of content teams produce and the volume of video they can actually create.

Our Solution

Knowlify closes that gap two ways:

Knowlify Platform โ€” you make the video. Upload a doc, a blog post, or just an idea, and get a narrated, animated video in minutes. Editing is as simple as chatting with it. It's self-serve, fast, and built for teams that need to produce a lot of video on their own schedule. Start free โ†’

Knowlify Studio โ€” we make it for you. When the stakes are high, our production team writes, animates, and delivers the whole thing end to end โ€” final video in as little as 72 hours. From hyperrealistic launch films to photoreal safety training, the studio handles it. Book a call โ†’

One platform for the everyday volume, one studio for the flagship pieces. Both turn the content you already have into video people actually watch.

Who's Using It

We work with teams across onboarding, internal comms, learning & development, training, marketing, and customer education โ€” in industries from healthcare and finance to manufacturing, supply chain, and medtech. Teams at Amazon, ByteDance, Colliers, Flexport, Zuru, Cerebras, Supabase, Zoho, and IntSig already make video with Knowlify.

"We worked with Knowlify to convert our written, complicated patient instructions into a short video. It helped us address an important pain-point with customers who had trouble following instructions." โ€” David Manka, PhD, COO, PS Fertility

"Your platform does exactly what I need โ€” converting my papers to videos so they can be accessed and understood by more people." โ€” Matthew Traum, PhD, University of Florida

The Ask

If your team produces more content than it has time to turn into video โ€” onboarding, training, comms, product, marketing โ€” we'd love to help.

Knowlify
Founded:2025
Batch:Summer 2025
Team Size:6
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Harj Taggar