Katalist

What Katalist does

Katalist is a private, for-profit artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco with origins in Slovenia, founded in 2023 by Andraz Zvonar (CEO) and Blaž Blokar (CTO). The company operates a self-serve AI platform for professional video production that automates pre-production workflows, enabling users to transform written scripts into shotlists, storyboards, and final videos through generative AI. The platform is positioned as an AI operating system purpose-built for video production, with capabilities spanning text-to-shotlist, AI-powered storyboard generation, and end-to-end video production automation. Katalist reports serving over 250,000 professionals globally and supporting millions of projects through its platform.

The company employs between 1 and 10 people and distributes its product as a SaaS subscription via a product-led growth motion, with global self-serve access and no disclosed enterprise sales motion. Pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed, suggesting either an unlaunched monetization structure or a freemium/early-access model. The horizontal customer focus spans professional videographers (primary segment) and filmmakers (secondary), addressing pain points around time-consuming pre-production work such as script breakdowns, shot planning, and storyboard creation. Katalist closed a $1.5 million seed round led by South Central Ventures in December 2025, was a participant in the 500 Global accelerator in May 2024, and partnered with CCN Holding, IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation, and CIFE Europe Institute on the WeShape Entrepreneurship Program 2026 in Turkey. No revenue, ARR, or enterprise customer concentration data is publicly disclosed.

Name

Katalist

Legal name

Katalist

Website

https://katalistai.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Katalist is an AI-powered video production platform that converts scripts into shotlists, storyboards, and videos, serving over 250,000 creative professionals globally through a self-serve SaaS model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Video Production Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Creator Tools & Production (Overlays, Alerts, Encoding, Editing, Audio) (MPAFAEAC)

Keywords

• AI video production
• Script to storyboard
• Video storyboarding software
• AI filmmaking tools
• Video creation platform

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: AI-powered video production platform serving professionals globally. Revenue likely generated through subscription-based access to the platform's video production tools, though specific pricing tiers are not publicly disclosed.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Katalist provides an AI-powered video production platform that automates complex high-end video creation workflows. The platform enables creatives to transform written scripts into shotlists, AI-generated storyboards, and final videos, functioning as a unified operating system for professional video production. It serves over 250,000 professionals globally and supports millions of projects through generative AI capabilities.

Product overview

Katalist is an AI platform for professional video production that offers a unified video production operating system. The platform enables creatives to transform scripts into shotlists, storyboards, and videos through AI-powered automation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Katalist AI Video Platform An AI-powered video production platform that automates complex, high-end video creation workflows, enabling professional videographers and filmmakers to transform written scripts into shotlists, AI-generated storyboards, and videos within a unified operating system.

Quantifiable outcome

• Platform serves over 250,000 professionals globally
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability3 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• CCN HoldingminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 16 June 2026CCN Holding led the WeShape Entrepreneurship Program 2026 in collaboration with IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation, Katalist, and CIFE Europe Institute. Approximately 350 university students from 110 universities participated in the program focused on health technology, space technology, AI-supported education, and social impact.
• IC İbrahim Çeçen FoundationminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 16 June 2026Foundation co-sponsored the WeShape Entrepreneurship Program 2026 alongside CCN Holding, Katalist, and CIFE Europe Institute, supporting university student entrepreneurs across Turkey.
• CIFE Europe InstituteminorGTM or Marketing Partner · 16 June 2026CIFE Europe Institute partnered with CCN Holding, IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation, and Katalist to support the WeShape Entrepreneurship Program 2026, with winning teams earning access to CIFE Europe's summer school program in Europe.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Pictory: Pictory uses AI to convert scripts and articles into short-form videos for social media and marketing. It overlaps with Katalist's script-to-video production positioning for individual creators and small teams.
• Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video generation platform specializing in avatar-based video creation for enterprise and training use cases. It competes in the broader AI video production market with substantially more capital and enterprise traction.
• Lumen5: Lumen5 is an AI video creation platform that converts text content into videos for marketing and social media use cases. It competes with Katalist in AI-driven video creation for professional content workflows.
• HeyGen: HeyGen provides AI-generated video content with avatar and text-to-video capabilities for marketing and business communications. It competes in the AI video creation space with stronger enterprise positioning.
• Captions: Captions is an AI video creation and editing platform that automates captions, editing, and AI-driven generation. It targets similar professional creators as Katalist with a mobile-first product experience.
• Descript: Descript offers AI-powered video and audio editing with transcription-based workflows targeting content creators and video professionals. It overlaps with Katalist's professional video production focus and has a more mature product.
• Pika: Pika is an AI video generation platform offering text-to-video and creative video editing capabilities. It overlaps directly with Katalist's positioning as an AI video production tool for creators.
• InVideo: InVideo is an AI-powered video creation platform offering script-to-video workflows for content creators and marketers. It directly competes with Katalist's script-to-video production approach at a similar price point.
• Runway: Runway is a leading AI video generation platform serving creative professionals with text-to-video, image-to-video, and editing tools. It directly competes with Katalist in AI video creation for professional users and is significantly better capitalized.

Broad incumbents

• OpenAI (Sora): OpenAI's Sora is a frontier text-to-video AI model backed by massive compute and distribution. It represents the most credible incumbent threat to specialized AI video platforms like Katalist and can ship comparable or superior features with rapid iteration.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Katalist_AI
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/katalistai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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