Goldcast
New York, US · Founded 2020 · Delaware corporation · 182 employees on LinkedIn · 13 known investors
Goldcast provides an AI-powered platform for creating and repurposing video content such as webinars, field events, video podcasts, and customer testimonials, using agentic workflows to turn long-form video into clips, blogs, emails, and social posts. It targets B2B go-to-market and marketing teams, with analytics and native integrations that deliver account-level engagement signals for ABM.
Also known as Goldcast, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Goldcast was founded in 2020 by Kishore Kothandaraman, Palash Soni, Kishore K, and Aashish Srinivas.
Board
Investors · 13
Also in the syndicate · 8
Reported raises · per SEC filings
Form D private placements$32M disclosed across 1 of 3 rounds · 2022
▶$32MraisedSep 2022 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Sumir ChadhaDirector
- Palash SoniExecutive Officer, Director
- Kishore KothandaramanExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $32M
- Amount sold
- $32M
- First sale
- Jun 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2020
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Goldcast, Inc. operates a video content platform aimed at B2B marketing teams. Its product set spans Goldcast Events (webinars, virtual events, field events and multi-session conferences), Recording Studio (local high-quality recording for podcasts, customer testimonials and thought-leadership video), Content Lab (AI-assisted repurposing of long-form video into clips, blogs, emails and social posts), Video Hubs (on-demand, embeddable video pages) and Goldcast Agents, a set of AI workflows including an Agentic Video Editor and AI highlight reels. Feature areas include registration and attendee management, branding and custom domains, engagement tools, translation and captioning, booths and rooms, AI search, analytics dashboards and integrations.
The platform positions events and video as a measurable go-to-market channel: it captures behavioral and engagement data points and syncs them to marketing automation and CRM systems such as Marketo, HubSpot, Eloqua and Salesforce so marketing and sales can act on account-level signals and attribute pipeline. Early positioning emphasized "Netflix-like" production values for digital and hybrid events plus account-based post-event insights; more recent positioning centers on agentic AI workflows for creating, repurposing and distributing video across channels. The company publishes research such as a B2B Webinar Benchmark Report and runs community programming including Webinar Fest, Event Marketers Club and the AI Marketing Alliance.
Founding story
Co-founders Palash Soni (CEO) and Kishore Kothandaraman (COO) met through a Harvard Business School cohort networking event in India; Kothandaraman contacted Soni after seeing he was building a startup. They divided roles with Kothandaraman as a strategic-thinking COO and Soni, with prior experience selling to businesses and building sales and marketing products, as CEO. After other ideas did not progress, they focused on the difficulty of proving event ROI and the idea of a "CRM for events" connected to CRM tools, seeing digital events as a way to make events repeatable and measurable. An early $20,000 engagement to build a video hosting product for a university freshman onboarding event failed when the product crashed 30 minutes into the event, which affected their reputation on campus. As immigrants without US networks, the founders also faced visa constraints and difficulty securing warm introductions to investors; their first investor was an Indian-American backer, and their first funding round totaled $2M while incumbent competitors had raised far more.
Business model
Software-as-a-service sold to businesses, with tiered plans referenced as Starter, Pro, Premium and Enterprise in the company's training materials.
Subscription plans for the platform across multiple tiers, with customers running recurring webinar and event programs; the company reports annual recurring revenue as its headline growth measure.
Traction
Reported metrics include 10x revenue growth and 150 added customers in the year preceding the August 2022 Series A, 60 hires in that period, more than $10M ARR, over 60 enterprise clients closed in a single year, 50% higher quarterly sales, and 100+ employees. Published customer outcomes include Intercom running 50+ webinars per quarter with up to 5,000 registrants per event, FullStory reporting 8x ROI in qualified pipeline and 480% registration growth, Hootsuite citing 150% organic traffic growth and 62% higher live attendance, SnapLogic running 16+ webinars per quarter with a 25% attendance increase, and Brandwatch reporting 92% faster post-event content creation.
Latest developments
Recent activity includes the launch of an Agentic Video Editor as the first of a new line of AI products, a No. 189 ranking on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, publication of a 2026 B2B Webinar Benchmark Report drawing on 26,190 webinars from 522 B2B companies, and 2026 platform releases covering dynamic stage layouts, centralized brand asset management, document reordering and improved 1080p recording. The company has said it is building autonomous "YouTube agents" that manage channels, create playlists and edit content, and is targeting $100M ARR and an eventual IPO.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Goldcast competes in the digital events and B2B video marketing software market, where it entered later than well-funded incumbents; a 2025 profile cites a valuation above $128M and a No. 189 placement on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Named customers include Intercom, FullStory, Brandwatch, Hootsuite, SnapLogic, Birdeye, Drift, Salesloft, Attentive, Toast, Avalara, Amplitude, Autodesk, Coherent, Intuit, Lattice, Microsoft GitHub, ThoughtSpot, Zuora, Weave, Canva, OpenAI and GitLab.
Management describes differentiation as a focus on turning events from one-off campaigns into recurring, measurable marketing programs, combining high-production-value attendee experiences with account-based engagement data piped into CRM and marketing automation, and an end-to-end span from live production through AI repurposing and on-demand distribution. The founders also cite shipping speed — releasing fixes in days where larger competitors took months — as a competitive factor.
Technology
AI and agentic workflows underpin clip creation and editing, highlight reels, blog and social post generation, AI search across video libraries, translation and captioning, and an AI analyst for engagement data. The events stack covers registration pages, branded event experiences, engagement tools, rooms and booths, 1080p recording, embedded events and on-demand video hubs, plus native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo and Eloqua. A SOC 2 report is referenced in the company's trust materials.
Go-to-market
Direct sales with demo requests, supported by content marketing, benchmark research, playbooks and tools, and community programming (Webinar Fest, Event Marketers Club, Donuts & Demand, AI Marketing Alliance). The company markets through its own events and customer case studies, and cites CRM/marketing-automation integrations, notably HubSpot, as a source of prospect registrations.
B2B marketing teams — demand generation, event and field marketing, content, marketing operations and marketing leadership — at growth-stage and enterprise technology companies.
Geography
Announcements in 2022 were datelined Boston; the company operates a fully remote workforce and serves customers running events across global time zones.
History
The founders initially targeted universities and trade shows before broadening to a general B2B audience. Goldcast announced a $10M seed round in February 2022 and a $28M Series A in August 2022, reporting 10x revenue growth and 150 additional customers in the intervening year. A further funding round followed in 2023, bringing cumulative funding to more than $38M according to a 2025 profile. The product expanded from virtual events into a broader video content platform with the addition of Recording Studio, Content Lab and AI/agentic capabilities, and the company reported crossing $10M ARR and stated ambitions to reach $100M ARR and eventually go public.
Risks & controversies
Early operating history included a product failure during a first major customer event and reputational fallout, immigration and visa constraints on the founders, and entering a category against competitors that had raised substantially more capital. Management also cites the complexity of maintaining culture and morale in a fully remote organization.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Competitors · 8
by search overlap
Companies competing with Goldcast for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.
Timeline · 6
launches, deals, and filingsProduct update adding more control over how speakers and shared content appear on stage, with flexible speaker views and styling options; attendees can hide the engagement sidebar.
Release enabling management of brand assets such as fonts, colors, logos and brand voice from one place, applied across events and video clips.
Goldcast announced it was ranked No. 189 on the 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list of fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
Goldcast announced the launch of its Agentic Video Editor, described as the first in a new line of AI-driven products for marketers creating video.
Goldcast announced a $28 million Series A led by WestBridge Capital with participation from Unusual Ventures, bringing total funding raised to $40 million. Sumir Chadha, co-founder of WestBridge, joined the board. Funds were designated for product use cases, leadership hires and marketing community initiatives.
$28M source ↗
Goldcast announced a $10 million seed round led by Unusual Ventures with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Afore Capital, Underscore VC and angel investors. Sandhya Hegde of Unusual Ventures joined the board. Proceeds were earmarked for product development and customer base expansion.
$10M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
Legal entities · 1
corporate structure▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Goldcast do?
- Goldcast is a B2B video content platform for webinars, digital events and AI-assisted content repurposing.
- Who founded Goldcast?
- Goldcast was founded by Kishore Kothandaraman, Palash Soni, Kishore K, Aashish Srinivas in 2020.
- Who are Goldcast's investors?
- Goldcast's investors include Afore Capital, HubSpot Ventures, NewBuild.VC, Underscore VC, Unusual Ventures.
- How much funding has Goldcast raised?
- Goldcast has disclosed $32M raised across 1 of its 3 known rounds.
- Where is Goldcast headquartered?
- Goldcast is headquartered in New York, US.