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OpusClip — Complete Company Intelligence Report

A publication-ready, source-backed investigation of OpusClip / Opusclip Inc. covering the founders, founding story, Kai-Fu Lee verification, product evolution, ClipAnything, ReframeAnything, OpusSearch, AI video agents, customers, case studies, funding, pricing, technology, data, privacy, competitors and 2026 strategy.

Current snapshot: 29 Sep 2026Primary sources firstCompany claims labeledNo invented facts

Legal entity: Opusclip Inc. · Brand: OpusClip · HQ: Mountain View, California · Website: opus.pro

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1. Executive Summary

OpusClip is an AI video editing and repurposing company founded in 2022. The reviewed evidence identifies Young Zhao, Jay Wu and Grace Wang as the founding team. Its original product focus was the repetitive job of converting long-form video into short-form social clips. The company then expanded into multimodal video understanding, reframing, captions, B-roll, publishing, analytics, searchable archives and agentic video creation.

OpusClip reported 6M+ users and eight-figure ARR in August 2024, 10M+ creators/brands and 172M+ clips created in the preceding year by March 2025, and 20M+ creators/businesses, 440M+ clips and 160B+ views as of September 2026. These are company-reported figures, not audited user or view measurements. A March 2025 Business Insider report put a SoftBank Vision Fund 2 round at $20M and valuation at $215M; the current 2026 valuation is not publicly disclosed in the reviewed primary sources.

20M+

Creators & businesses, Sep 2026

440M+

Clips created, Sep 2026

160B+

Views from user-posted clips

95+

People on team, careers page

Core strategic arc: AI clipping → multimodal video understanding → AI editing/growth → video-archive intelligence → AI video agents.

2. Company Identity

Field	Verified finding
Legal name	Opusclip Inc., a Delaware corporation, per current Terms of Service
Brand	OpusClip / Opus
Founded	2022
HQ	Mountain View, California
Current offices	Mountain View, San Francisco, Vancouver, Los Angeles
Industry	AI video editing, video repurposing, creator software, generative/agentic video workflows
Operating status	Active
Current team	95+ on careers page
Parent/subsidiary	Not publicly disclosed in reviewed sources

3. Founders

Young Zhao — Co-founder & CEO

[VERIFIED] Public company/database records identify Zhao as co-founder and CEO. Crunchbase reports UC Berkeley B.A. Computer Science / Human-Computer Interaction and prior founding roles at Zaihui and OneBowl. A founder interview transcript says he spent about four years building a food-review talent agency that grew to nearly 500 creatives.

[FOUNDER-REPORTED] The “nearly 500 creatives” figure is Zhao's own account and should not be presented as an audited agency headcount. His narrative links the agency experience to the problem of scaling video production and creators' desire to operate as solopreneurs.

Requested Young Zhao image: Artificial Intelligence Files image

Jay Wu — Co-founder & CTO

[VERIFIED] Crunchbase identifies Wu as CTO & co-founder and reports a Worcester Polytechnic Institute B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering / Computer Science (2008–2012) and prior co-founder experience at Mooyoung SmartTech. Google developer material also quotes him as OpusClip co-founder & CTO in connection with video-agent reasoning.

Detailed proprietary model architecture, training infrastructure and research chronology are not publicly disclosed in the reviewed sources.

Grace Wang — Co-founder

[VERIFIED] Crunchbase identifies Wang as co-founder, with prior ByteDance user-growth/GTM strategy experience and Peking University finance education. Public materials identify her as co-founder/CMO. Her public commentary emphasizes the increasing value of human taste, story judgment and distinctive points of view as AI automates execution.

4. Kai-Fu Lee Investigation

Conclusion: Kai-Fu Lee should not be listed as an OpusClip founder.

The reviewed company and investor/industry records identify Zhao, Wu and Wang as the founding team. No reliable primary source reviewed here establishes Kai-Fu Lee as founder or co-founder. Searches connecting Lee/Sinovation to OpusClip did not produce sufficient evidence to establish him as investor, advisor, board member or mentor either.

Status: Relationship not publicly established from the reviewed evidence. Do not infer a formal OpusClip relationship from Lee's broader AI-investor ecosystem.

5. Founding Story

Problem observed

Long-form content contains many potentially useful moments, but selecting, trimming, captioning, reframing and publishing short clips is repetitive and time-intensive. Zhao's agency experience is the clearest founder-reported origin evidence.

Product thesis

Automate repetitive post-production while preserving authentic recorded video. The early wedge was narrow: get from one long video to useful shorts with minimal editing expertise.

Long video→AI analysis→Highlights→Reframe→Captions/B-roll→Publish→Analytics

6. Timeline

2022
Founding period; company records identify Zhao, Wu and Wang.

2023
Public growth of the long-form-to-short-form product. OpusClip later said it reached 5M users within seven months.

19 Feb 2024
OpusClip 3.0: genre-specific curation, outputs up to 15 minutes, new title styles, B-roll/captions and claimed faster processing.

31 Aug 2024
$30M cumulative funding announcement and ClipAnything launch; 6M+ users and eight-figure ARR reported.

11 Mar 2025
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 funding announcement and OpusSearch launch; 10M+ creators/brands, 172M+ clips in prior year and 57B+ views reported.

2025
Positioning expanded from clipping to AI video growth; ClipAnything/ReframeAnything upgraded and workflow automation expanded.

2026
AI Producer/agentic editing and broader Agent Opus/multi-model strategy become major product direction.

Sep 2026
Current About page: 20M+ creators/businesses, 440M+ clips, 160B+ views.

7. Mission & Brand Positioning

Early:

AI-powered video clipping and repurposing.

Growth phase:

AI video growth platform: clipping, editing, reframing, publishing and analytics.

Current:

OpusClip says its mission is to build an AI video creation and editing agent enabling authentic and personalized video production for anyone.

Careers positioning: “No.1 AI video platform that turns footage into a growth engine.” This is a company positioning statement, not an independent market ranking.

8. Product Evolution

Stage	Core job	Key capabilities	Status
Early clipping	Long → short	AI curation, highlight selection	Historical/current
OpusClip 3.0	More genres + more control	Genre curation, longer outputs, B-roll, captions	Historical
ClipAnything	Any video + natural-language prompts	Visual/audio/sentiment understanding	Current
Growth platform	Create + publish + learn	Scheduler, analytics, social workflows	Current
OpusSearch	Search/reuse archive	Catalog search, compilation, trend response	Current; access varies
AI Producer	Raw footage → finished edit	Conversational AI editing, captions, B-roll, music/SFX	Current
Agent Opus	Intent → generated video	Agents + multi-model generation/orchestration	Active 2026 direction

9. Current Product Ecosystem

AI Clipping

Highlight detection, genre curation, ClipAnything, Virality Score

ReframeAnything

Object/action tracking for 9:16, 1:1 and 16:9

Captions

Animated captions, brand vocabulary, multilingual captioning

AI B-roll

AI image/video and stock B-roll

Audio

Speech enhancement, filler/pause cleanup

Voice

AI voice-over and dubbing on supported plans

Publishing

Social posting and scheduling

Analytics

Clip/performance analytics and growth insights

OpusSearch

Search, reuse and monetize video archives

API

Programmatic clipping, captions, reframes, translations

MCP

Editing tools exposed to Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT

AI Producer

AI editor agent for raw talking-head footage

10. ClipAnything

Announced 31 Aug 2024 as a multimodal AI clipping system that can use natural-language prompts to identify moments in different video genres. OpusClip described it as reasoning across visuals, actions, emotions, audio and dialogue. The company also said it used user feedback/performance signals including likes, dislikes, exports and social-performance information in fine-tuning.

Benchmark	ClipAnything-1.0	Gemini-1.5	GPT-4V/o	InternVideo	VideoChat2
MovieChat-1K	164	121.3	110.7	—	—
EgoSchema	69.2%	63.2%	72.2%	41.1%	54.4%
NeXT-QA	72.6%	70.9%	71.5%	49.1%	68.6%
Something-Something-V2	75.3%	74.2%	71.9%	77.1%	—
Repurpose-10K	24.9%	15.7%	17.7%	2.7%	4.2%

Benchmarks are published by OpusClip and are not independently audited in this report.

11. ReframeAnything

Current OpusClip materials describe ReframeAnything as an AI system that identifies key objects/actions and tracks them across frames to reformat video for social aspect ratios. The underlying architecture and training data are not publicly disclosed.

12. OpusSearch

Problem

Large archives are difficult to search manually. Teams may miss older moments, trend opportunities and compilation opportunities.

Documented result

All the Smoke used OpusSearch to find March Madness moments across its archive and create a 3.5-hour compilation. OpusClip reports 95% less editing time and 28K extra views from the featured video.

13. AI Video Agent Strategy

AI Producer

Current OpusClip product pages describe an AI video editor agent that turns raw talking-head footage into publish-ready video with captions, B-roll, motion design, music and SFX, with natural-language control.

Agent Opus

2026 OpusClip materials describe a broader agentic workflow for research, scripting, storyboarding, assets, voices, avatars, motion and editing. Other company material describes multi-model routing across models including Kling, Hailuo MiniMax, Veo, Runway, Sora, Seedance, Luma and Pika. Treat provider/model availability as changeable.

Status: AI Producer is presented as a current OpusClip product. Some broader Agent Opus workflows have appeared in beta/waitlist-era or marketing materials; do not assume every described autonomous workflow is an enterprise-available production feature.

14. AI Technology / Proprietary vs Third-Party

Layer	Best-supported classification	Public evidence
ClipAnything	OpusClip proprietary model/product	Named and benchmarked by OpusClip
ReframeAnything	OpusClip proprietary model/product	Named by OpusClip
AI Curation	Internal product capability	OpusClip describes internal evaluation
Virality Score	Product algorithm	Methodology not fully public
Speech/captions	Provider/architecture not fully disclosed	Product + Trust Center
LLM/generative media	Mixed / third-party components	Trust Center lists Google/OpenAI; Agent Opus names multiple models
Agent orchestration	OpusClip product layer	AI Producer/Agent Opus materials

15. Training Data, Privacy & Feedback

[COMPANY-REPORTED 2024] OpusClip said ClipAnything was fine-tuned on data across its user base, including likes, dislikes, exports and social-performance information. The current privacy policy says user-generated content such as videos, images and transcripts may be used to provide and improve the services, while social-network data may be used for requested integrations and feature improvement/benchmarking.

[CURRENT BUSINESS POSITION] OpusClip's business page says it does not train on business data and that customers own inputs and outputs where allowed by law. Its Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, restricted production-data use and restricted customer-data access.

Not publicly disclosed: complete current training corpus, dataset size, exact model-training pipeline and feature-by-feature model provider map.

16. Virality Score

OpusClip markets a Virality Score for estimating the potential of a clip. The 2024 announcement said the score was informed by analysis of tens of thousands of viral videos. The current methodology, calibration and independent predictive validity are not publicly established. Therefore the score should be treated as decision support, not a guarantee of performance.

17. Master Customer Database

Company	Industry	Relationship	Product/use	Scale	Documented result	Evidence
Audacy	Media/radio	Customer case	AI clipping + API	20 stations in reported result	1B+ views; no added headcount; real-time publishing	Company-published customer case
Viral Nation	Agency	Customer case	AI clipping/repurposing	65+ creators referenced; ~250 videos/month	3x short-form output; one client short >6M views	Customer interview published by OpusClip
All the Smoke	Podcast/media	Customer case	OpusSearch	6-person team	95% editing-time reduction; 28K extra views from featured compilation	Customer case
Chili Piper	B2B SaaS	Customer case	AI clipping	Video/creative team	Workflow acceleration; no public numeric ROI	Customer case
Jubilee Media	Digital media	Customer/early OpusSearch user	OpusClip + OpusSearch	Hundreds of videos/year referenced	No independently audited customer-specific ROI disclosed	Company announcement + quote
Billboard	Music/media	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
Univision	Media	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
Telefónica	Telecommunications	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
iHeartMedia	Media/audio	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
Visa	Financial services	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
LinkedIn	Technology/professional network	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	Company announcement
Impact Theory	Media/creator	Customer/testimonial	OpusClip	Not disclosed	CEO testimonial on maintaining social presence	Customer quote
Grant Cardone	Creator/education	Creator/customer reference	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No audited result in reviewed source set	Company reference
Mark Rober	Creator/media	Creator/customer reference	OpusClip	Not disclosed	Named by current OpusClip materials	Company reference
Diary of a CEO	Podcast/media	Creator/customer reference	OpusClip	Not disclosed	Named by current OpusClip materials	Company reference
Think Media	Creator education	Customer/testimonial	OpusClip	Not disclosed	Testimonial says more/better content faster	Customer testimonial
Scott Galloway	Creator/education	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	2024 company announcement
Jenny Hoyos	Creator/marketing	Named customer	OpusClip	Not disclosed	No public quantified result	2024 company announcement
Nate Bargatze	Entertainment/creator	Early OpusSearch user	OpusSearch	Not disclosed	No independently audited result	2025 company announcement
Zack Justice	Creator/media	Early OpusSearch user	OpusSearch	Not disclosed	No independently audited result	2025 company announcement

18. Deep-Dive Case Studies

Audacy

Problem: transform live radio moments into social content at network scale. Solution: OpusClip automation/API across participating stations and social channels. Result: 1B+ views across 20 stations, real-time publishing, increased output and no added headcount — all reported in OpusClip's customer case. Caveat: the 1B+ number is not an independent causal audit.

All the Smoke

Before: manual transcript-by-transcript search and days to create compilations. After: search the archive with OpusSearch, compile, light-edit in Premiere Pro and publish. Result: 95% reduction in editing time and 28K extra views from one 3.5-hour compilation.

Viral Nation

Before: roughly 250 videos/month and a heavy short-form repurposing workload across 65+ creators. After: OpusClip used to scale short-form output with a lean internal team. Result: 3x short-form output; one client short exceeded 6M views.

Chili Piper

Before: large volume of product videos, customer stories, podcasts, interviews and marketing videos with limited time. After: link/file-driven automated clip selection and creation. Result: documented workflow acceleration, but no reliable public numeric ROI.

19. Before → After

Dimension	Traditional process	OpusClip process	Evidence
Moment selection	Manual watching/scrubbing	AI curation / ClipAnything	Verified capability
Reframing	Manual crop/reposition	AI tracking/reframe	Verified capability
Captions	Manual transcription/styling	Automated captions/templates	Verified capability
Archive discovery	Transcript-by-transcript search	OpusSearch	Customer case
Publishing	Manual export/upload	Social publishing/scheduler	Verified capability
Scale	Bound by editor hours	Automation/API	Customer evidence varies

20. Metrics Database

Date	Metric	Value	Evidence
Aug 2024	Users	6M+	Company-reported
Aug 2024	ARR	Eight-figure ARR	Company-reported
Mar 2025	Creators/brands	10M+	Company-reported
Mar 2025	Clips in prior year	172M+	Company-reported
Mar 2025	Views from those clips	57B+	Company-reported
Mar 2025	Total funding after SoftBank	$50M	Company/third-party reported
Mar 2025	Valuation	$215M	Business Insider reported
Sep 2026	Creators & businesses	20M+	Company-reported
Sep 2026	Clips created	440M+	Company-reported
Sep 2026	Views from user-posted clips	160B+	Company-reported
Sep 2026	Team	95+	Company-reported
Sep 2026	HQ	Mountain View, CA	Company-reported

21. ROI Analysis

All the Smoke

95% editing-time reduction. Strong time-efficiency evidence, but not a financial ROI percentage.

Viral Nation

3x output is a productivity multiplier. Public OpusClip pricing plus customer labor economics are insufficient to calculate customer ROI.

Audacy

1B+ views with no added headcount is operationally material, but financial ROI is not independently calculable.

ROI conclusion: ROI cannot be independently calculated from publicly available data for the reviewed cases because customer baseline costs, OpusClip spend and attributable financial benefit are not sufficiently disclosed.

22. Customer Impact Score /100

Analyst synthesis using the requested dimensions: Production Efficiency 20, Cost Reduction 20, Scalability 15, Global Reach 10, Adoption 10, Engagement/Learning 10, Strategic Business Impact 10, Evidence Quality 5. This is not a company rating or independent audit.

Company	Efficiency	Cost	Scale	Global	Adoption	Engagement	Strategic	Evidence	Total	Reason
Audacy	17/20	18/20	14/15	10/10	10/10	9/10	9/10	5/5	92	Large-scale operational deployment with quantified reach; result remains company-published.
All the Smoke	19/20	18/20	12/15	7/10	8/10	8/10	8/10	5/5	85	Strong before/after time metric and concrete output/reach.
Viral Nation	17/20	15/20	13/15	8/10	8/10	8/10	8/10	5/5	82	Clear output multiplier and high-view example; cost/ROI unavailable.
Jubilee Media	10/20	5/20	11/15	8/10	7/10	6/10	7/10	4/5	58	Strategically important media user; limited quantified public impact.
Chili Piper	12/20	5/20	9/15	6/10	6/10	6/10	6/10	4/5	54	Clear problem/solution fit; limited public quantitative impact.

23. Enterprise Strategy & Adoption

OpusClip now targets creators, marketers, agencies, media companies and businesses. The current Business plan offers custom credits/seats, dedicated storage, API/custom integrations, MSA, priority support and enterprise-level security. Public evidence supports a broad path of creator → professional team → agency/media workflow → API-driven automation, but individual enterprise adoption stages should not be labeled without explicit evidence.

24. API / Developer Platform

The current API supports programmatic clipping and related workflows. Documentation shows a video URL can create a clipping project with curation parameters such as clip duration, keywords and genre. The current site also advertises an MCP connector that exposes 25 editing tools to Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT. API availability is plan-dependent; Business includes API/custom integrations.

25. Current Pricing

Plan	Price shown	Credits	Key features
Free	$0/month	60/month	1080p, auto reframe, captions; watermark; 3-day export window
Starter	$15/month	150/month	AI clipping, Virality Score, 20+ caption languages, auto-posting, editor, 1 brand template
Pro	$29/month or $174/year	300/month	Team workspace, AI B-roll, scheduler, multiple aspect ratios, Adobe/DaVinci export, limited API, dubbing
Business	Contact sales	Custom	Priority processing, custom credits/seats, dedicated storage, API/custom integrations, MSA, enterprise security

Live pricing snapshot accessed for this report; pricing/features can change. Annual Pro is shown as $174 billed annually ($14.50/month equivalent).

26. Funding, Investors & Valuation

Publicly supported funding

Aug 2024: $30M total funding announced, including Series A and prior seed funding.
Series A led by Millennium New Horizons with support from AI Grant, Samsung Next, GTMfund, DCM Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Fellows Fund, Alpine VC and Jason Lemkin.
Mar 2025: new funding from SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Business Insider reported $20M for the SoftBank round, $50M total funding and a $215M valuation.

Current valuation

Not publicly disclosed in the reviewed primary sources as of September 2026. The $215M figure is a historical March 2025 third-party report, not a current valuation.

Some financial databases now show different cumulative funding totals; this report does not silently merge those figures with the company-announced $50M milestone.

27. Financial Performance

Metric	Evidence	Status
ARR	Eight-figure ARR, Aug 2024	Company-reported historical
Revenue	No current audited/public figure in reviewed primary sources	Not publicly disclosed
Profitability	No current reliable disclosure	Not publicly disclosed
Burn/cash/runway	No current reliable disclosure	Not publicly disclosed

28. Creator Economy & Marketing Strategy

Creator-led

Named creators and media brands are central to references, testimonials and case studies.

PLG

Free plan, free credits and one-click output reduce trial friction.

Content marketing

Tutorials, customer stories, growth playbooks and product education support acquisition.

[INFERENCE] Generated clips can themselves become distribution artifacts, creating a plausible product-led loop. The exact share of acquisition from organic/referral loops is not publicly disclosed.

29. Competitive Landscape

Product	Core orientation	Current capabilities	Factual contrast
OpusClip	Repurposing + editing + growth + agents	ClipAnything, ReframeAnything, OpusSearch, API/MCP, AI Producer	Long-form → social and growth workflow focus
Descript	Text-based video/audio editing	Transcript editing, AI co-editor, recording, clips, translation, API/MCP	More transcript/document-oriented
Captions	AI creator editing	AI Edit, chat-based editing, captions, B-roll, generated content	Strong creator/mobile editing orientation
CapCut	Broad creator/social editor	Templates, captions, AI tools/effects	Broader consumer/template ecosystem
VEED	Browser video editor	AI Clips, auto-framing, subtitles, filler removal	Broader web editor with AI Clips

Competitor-use rule: public evidence reviewed here is insufficient to say that specific OpusClip customers also use HeyGen, Colossyan, Hour One, D-ID, Elai, Vyond, Canva, Adobe or another competitor. Do not infer multi-tool usage.

30. Legal, Copyright, Privacy & Responsible AI

Terms / copyright

Current Terms require users to respect copyright and other rights. OpusClip states that ownership of user submissions is not affected by the service license, while granting rights needed to operate the service.

Privacy/security

Current Privacy Policy effective 17 Nov 2025 says OpusClip generally acts as processor of personal data for users, with some controller activities. Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR and says production data use is restricted.

Current privacy materials describe collection/use of web analytics, social-network data, inferred attributes and user-generated content such as videos, images and transcripts. The policy says OpusClip does not intentionally process GDPR special categories and asks users not to upload them.

Context loss

Shortening can remove necessary narrative context.

Virality prediction

Scores are estimates, not guarantees.

Copyright

Users remain responsible for rights to uploaded/republished material.

AI-generated assets

Agentic workflows require human review for factual/brand accuracy.

31. Limitations / Negative Evidence

No systematic public churn/failure database was found in the reviewed primary sources.
Public case studies are success-oriented; absence of negative cases is not evidence that none exist.
Model/provider architecture and training data are partly opaque.
Current valuation, revenue, profitability and runway are not publicly disclosed in reliable primary sources.
Agentic feature availability can change rapidly across beta, waitlist and production surfaces.
High-volume workflows may require custom Business arrangements because credits and plan limits apply.

32. Customer Quotes

“Basically, I can just drop a link or a file and it's gonna do everything for me.”
— Nolan McCoy, Head of Video and Creative Content, Chili Piper; OpusClip, Aug 2024.

“For one of our clients, he has over 6 million views on one video that's created by OpusClip.”
— Dylan Scance, Head of Creator Studio, Viral Nation; OpusClip, Aug 2023.

“OpusClip's AI tool is changing everything. It's for any business owner who needs to maintain a social presence without sacrificing hours for video editing.”
— Tom Bilyeu, CEO, Impact Theory; OpusClip, Mar 2025.

“Story judgment, taste and unique points of view are becoming exponentially more valuable.”
— Grace Wang, Co-founder & CMO, OpusClip; Google entrepreneur/AI discussion, 2026.

33. Current vs Historical Product Status

Product/feature	Historical	Current	Status note
AI clipping	Yes	Yes	Core current product
ClipAnything	Launched 2024	Yes	Current product page
ReframeAnything	Launched before 2026	Yes	Current product capability
OpusSearch	Launched 2025	Yes	Access can be limited/exclusive by page
AI Producer	2026	Yes	Current AI editor agent
Agent Opus	2025–26	Active direction	Some broader workflows had beta/waitlist-era descriptions
API	Yes	Yes	Plan-dependent
MCP	No	Yes	Current API/editor pages

34. Top 20 Most Important Results

#	Result	Evidence
1	20M+ creators/businesses, 440M+ clips, 160B+ views — Sep 2026	Company-reported
2	Audacy: 1B+ views across 20 stations; no added headcount	Customer case published by OpusClip
3	All the Smoke: 95% editing-time reduction	Customer case
4	All the Smoke: 28K extra views from one compilation	Customer case
5	Viral Nation: 3x short-form output	Customer-reported
6	Viral Nation client: >6M views on one OpusClip-created short	Customer-reported
7	10M+ creators/brands by Mar 2025	Company-reported
8	172M+ clips in prior year by Mar 2025	Company-reported
9	57B+ views from those clips	Company-reported
10	6M+ users by Aug 2024	Company-reported
11	Eight-figure ARR by Aug 2024	Company-reported
12	$30M cumulative funding by Aug 2024	Company-reported
13	$20M SoftBank round	Third-party reported
14	$215M valuation in Mar 2025	Third-party reported
15	95+ team members	Company careers page
16	ClipAnything: 72.6% NeXT-QA	Company-published benchmark
17	ClipAnything: 24.9% Repurpose-10K	Company-published benchmark
18	Audacy: real-time publishing	Customer case
19	All the Smoke: 3.5-hour compilation workflow	Customer case
20	Current pricing: Free $0 / Starter $15 / Pro $29 / Business custom	Primary current page

35. Pain Points & Pattern Analysis

Recurring problem	Examples	Assessment
Manual clip selection	Audacy, Viral Nation, Chili Piper, All the Smoke	Very high recurrence
Editing time	All the Smoke, Viral Nation	Very high recurrence
Content volume/scaling	Audacy, Viral Nation	Very high recurrence
Archive underuse	OpusSearch, All the Smoke, Jubilee	High
Platform formatting	ReframeAnything/social publishing	High
Video expertise gap	Core positioning	High
Headcount/vendor dependency	Audacy and agency positioning	Medium-high
Localization	Captions/translation product capabilities	Medium; weaker quantified customer evidence

36. Strategic Insights

Why companies buy

[INFERENCE] Reduce the labor required to turn existing footage into large volumes of social-ready assets.

Who adopts first

[INFERENCE] Creators, podcasters, video/marketing teams and agencies with high source-video volume.

What drives expansion

[INFERENCE] More channels, more publishing frequency, more brands/stations and larger archives increase automation value.

Biggest ROI driver

[INFERENCE] Time/labor savings are more consistently evidenced than direct revenue attribution.

Localization

Useful supporting capability, but the strongest quantified cases reviewed are about clipping, scale and archive reuse.

Potential moat

[INFERENCE] Proprietary video understanding, feedback loops, workflow integration, creator distribution and API adoption may reinforce defensibility; durability is unproven.

37. SWOT

Strengths

Large reported creator footprint
Multimodal clipping/reframing
Clear long-form → social workflow
API/MCP and business packaging
Documented large-scale media case
Expansion into archive intelligence and agents

Weaknesses / limitations

Partial model/provider opacity
Virality-score methodology not public
Limited public financial disclosure
AI outputs still require review
Fast-moving product/beta boundaries

Opportunities

Enterprise video operations
Media archive monetization
API automation
Agentic editing/creation
Multi-model orchestration

Threats

AI editing commoditization
Platform API/policy changes
Broad-editor competition
Copyright/content-rights disputes
Third-party model dependence

38. Current 2026 Strategy

Public 2026 materials show two simultaneous priorities: deepen the core repurposing engine and broaden into agentic video creation. OpusClip is building a workflow in which the system can select clips, reframe, caption, add B-roll, clean audio, schedule and analyze content. OpusSearch adds a searchable memory layer for existing video libraries. AI Producer/Agent Opus push the product toward intent-driven editing and generation.

[INFERENCE] The strategic opportunity is to own more of the video lifecycle rather than only the clipping step. The corresponding challenge is increased competition with broad editors and model-aggregation products.

39. Final Company Profile

Company: Opusclip Inc. / OpusClip

Founders: Young Zhao, Jay Wu, Grace Wang

Founded: 2022

CEO: Young Zhao · CTO: Jay Wu · Co-founder/CMO: Grace Wang (public materials)

HQ: Mountain View, CA

Current scale: 20M+ creators/businesses, 440M+ clips, 160B+ views — company-reported Sep 2026

Funding milestone: $30M cumulative by Aug 2024; SoftBank round announced Mar 2025 and reported at $20M, taking public total to $50M

Historical valuation: $215M reported Mar 2025; current 2026 valuation not publicly disclosed

Core products: AI clipping, ClipAnything, ReframeAnything, captions, B-roll, voice/audio, publishing, OpusSearch, API/MCP, AI Producer and broader Agent Opus direction

Strongest quantified customer evidence: Audacy, All the Smoke and Viral Nation

Kai-Fu Lee: not established as founder or formal OpusClip investor/advisor/board member in reviewed evidence

40. Final Quality-Control Findings

Founder identities verified as Zhao, Wu and Wang.
Kai-Fu Lee excluded from founding story because evidence is insufficient.
Historical valuation is explicitly dated to March 2025.
Current 2026 scale uses the current About page and is labeled company-reported.
Current pricing uses the live pricing page.
Customer outcomes are separated from company-wide scale claims.
ROI is not invented where financial inputs are missing.
Competitor usage is not inferred.
Technical architecture is described only where publicly supported.

41. Source Audit

Source	URL	Type	Primary claims
OpusClip About	https://www.opus.pro/about	Primary	2026 scale, mission, offices, creator references
Careers	https://www.opus.pro/careers	Primary	95+ team; company mission/vision
Pricing	https://www.opus.pro/pricing	Primary	Current plans, credits, API, security
ClipAnything	https://www.opus.pro/clipanything	Primary	Multimodal product + benchmarks + API/MCP
2024 Funding/ClipAnything	https://www.opus.pro/blog/opusclip-celebrates-30m-in-funding-and-the-launch-of-clipanything	Primary	$30M cumulative, 6M users, eight-figure ARR, training-signal claim
2025 SoftBank/OpusSearch	https://www.opus.pro/blog/opusclip-raises-a-new-round-of-funding-from-softbank-and-launches-opussearch	Primary	SoftBank funding, 10M users, 172M clips, 57B views, OpusSearch
2-year product update	https://www.opus.pro/blog/celebrating-2-years-of-opusclip-from-the-best-ai-clipping-tool-to-the-best-ai-growth-tool-for-video-creators	Primary	Product evolution, ClipAnything/ReframeAnything
AI Video Editor	https://www.opus.pro/ai-video-editor	Primary	AI Producer agent, MCP
API	https://www.opus.pro/api	Primary	Programmatic clipping/editing API
Business	https://www.opus.pro/business	Primary	Enterprise automation, Audacy, OpusSearch
Customer Stories	https://www.opus.pro/customer-stories	Primary	Customer/testimonial landscape
Audacy	https://www.opus.pro/how-audacy-drove-1b-views-using-opusclip	Primary	1B+ views, 20 stations, no added headcount
All the Smoke	https://www.opus.pro/blog/how-all-the-smoke-makes-hit-compilations-faster-with-opussearch	Primary	95% time reduction, 28K extra views
Viral Nation	https://www.opus.pro/blog/opus-clip-triples-viral-nations-output-and-creates-a-short-with-6-million-views	Primary	3x output, 6M-view example
Chili Piper	https://www.opus.pro/blog/opusclip-speeds-up-chili-pipers-clip-selection-and-creation-process	Primary	Marketing workflow/bottleneck
Trust Center	https://trust.opus.pro/	Primary	SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, data controls, subprocessors
Privacy	https://www.opus.pro/privacy-policy	Primary	Data collection/use/retention
Terms	https://www.opus.pro/terms-of-service	Primary	Legal entity and user-content rights
Business Insider	https://www.businessinsider.com/opusclip-softbank-vision-fund-2-funding-valuation-2025-3	Third-party	$20M SoftBank round, $215M valuation
Google	https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/entrepreneurs/future-of-ai/	Third-party	Grace Wang quote
Google Gemini developer post	https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/gemini-3-developers/	Partner/third-party	Jay Wu statement on Gemini 3
Crunchbase company	https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/opus-clip	Database	Legal name, founders, active status
Crunchbase Young Zhao	https://www.crunchbase.com/person/young-zhao-d4f9	Database	Education/prior companies
Crunchbase Jay Wu	https://www.crunchbase.com/person/jay-wu-6041	Database	Education/prior company
Crunchbase Grace Wang	https://www.crunchbase.com/person/grace-wang-68f9	Database	ByteDance/Peking University background
Descript	https://www.descript.com/	Competitor primary	Text-based editing, AI co-editor
Captions	https://captions.ai/	Competitor primary	AI editing/chat workflow
VEED Clips	https://support.veed.io/en/articles/11652474-how-to-use-our-clips-feature	Competitor primary	AI Clips current capability

Prepared for Artificial Intelligence Files. Research snapshot: 29 September 2026. This report prioritizes primary company, customer and investor sources and labels company-reported/third-party/inference claims. Product availability, pricing, model providers and company metrics can change after publication. Requested assets: logo https://artificialintelligencefiles.com/uploads/opusclip_a384a0227ba5502c_1790667170.png · Young Zhao image https://artificialintelligencefiles.com/uploads/young-zhao_90a7d701d0ac3555_1790668007.png.