The Singapore-based video-generation company closed a Series C extension that brought the round to $439 million and pushed its valuation over $2 billion. Backers include Alibaba, and PixVerse says it now has more than 150 million registered users as it pushes from short clips into interactive "world models."
2026-07-14 · by Moe Ameen
PixVerse, a Singapore-based AI video-generation startup, has closed a Series C extension that brings the round to $439 million and pushes its valuation past $2 billion, reported on July 13, 2026. The company had closed the initial Series C in March 2026 — led by CDH Investments and reported by Bloomberg to be in the range of $300 million — and the new tranche adds a large group of investors on top.
Backers in the extension include Alibaba, Lollapalooza Capital, Ivy Capital, Grand Mount Capital, Eastern Bell Capital, Mirae Asset, BlueFocus, and CloudAlpha, joining returning investors iGlobe Partners and OCBC's Lion X Ventures. PixVerse was founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu — a former ByteDance computer-vision engineer — and Jaden Xie, previously an executive director at Lighthouse Capital. The company runs on about 150 employees across offices in Singapore, Beijing, and Shanghai, and says it has passed 150 million registered users and 15 million monthly actives, though it has not disclosed how many pay.
PixVerse's products span three model lines: a V-Series consumer-and-API video model (its flagship, currently V6, generating text-to-video and image-to-video with native audio and lip sync at up to 4K, priced around $4.80 per minute of generated video), a C-Series aimed at professional film and commercial workflows, and an R-Series of "world models" for game development launched earlier in 2026. With the new capital the company says it plans to launch a new V-Series model and release a new version of its world model this year, and to reach customers across more geographies.
The raise lands in a crowded, well-funded AI-video market — Kuaishou's Kling unit reportedly raised near $3 billion at an $18 billion valuation in early July, and Higgsfield has been in talks at a $5 billion valuation — so treat model names, resolution ceilings, and prices as a fast-moving snapshot and confirm the current spec on PixVerse's own site.
A $439M round doesn't change the creator's actual problem: a raw PixVerse clip is a source, not a post, and a well-funded model just means more people can make the same anonymous 5-second render you can. What separates your feed is everything PixVerse doesn't touch — a voice the audience recognizes, one identity held across a week, and being on every platform at once. That is the layer Kompozy runs. Drop a PixVerse text-to-video or image-to-video clip into Kompozy and it captions the clip in your voice through the Persona Brief, reframes it cleanly to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9, and stacks hook text over the muted opening second with brand-exact HyperFrames — turning one generated scene into posts that read as your brand, not another leaderboard demo in the scroll.
From there Kompozy fans that single clip into a week and generates the formats a video model can't: a Carousel that walks the scene, Quote Graphics from the dialogue, native Text Posts, a Blog Article, and an Email Newsletter — all held to one voice — plus Persona Shorts and HeyGen avatar video for a face-locked recurring host. Then Autopilot and a per-post review pipeline schedule and publish the whole package across nine social platforms plus blog and email from one queue. There's a same-week story to publish, too: "an AI video startup just raised $439M" is a query your audience is searching, and Kompozy turns your take on it into a captioned short, a carousel, a blog explainer, and platform-native posts in an afternoon.
PixVerse closed a Series C extension that brought the round to $439 million and pushed its valuation past $2 billion, reported on July 13, 2026. The initial Series C — reported around $300 million and led by CDH Investments — closed in March 2026, with the extension adding investors including Alibaba on top.
PixVerse is a Singapore-based AI video-generation startup founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu, a former ByteDance computer-vision engineer, and Jaden Xie, formerly of Lighthouse Capital. Its platform generates video from text and images with native audio and lip sync, and it says it has passed 150 million registered users. Its flagship consumer model is the V6 line, alongside a professional C-Series and an R-Series of world models.
It signals AI video will keep getting cheaper and more widely used, so generating a clip stops being a differentiator — the scarce work moves downstream to captioning, branding, and publishing. A raw PixVerse clip is a source, not a finished post; a content engine like Kompozy turns it into captioned shorts, carousels, a blog, and a newsletter in one brand voice and publishes them across nine platforms plus blog and email.