Slateteams
8 known investors
Slate is an AI-assisted social media content creation platform that helps brand teams edit videos and imagery, automatically clip long videos into social-ready formats, and manage brand assets through a Brand Hub. It serves brand and social media teams looking to produce on-brand content across social channels.
Also known as Slate · Slate Digital Inc. · Slate Teams
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Slate (operated by Slate Digital Inc., slateteams.com) is a content creation platform built for corporate social media teams. Its browser-based studio and mobile apps provide AI-assisted video and image editing, AI video captioning, and long-form-to-short-form clipping that identifies key moments and converts long videos into social-ready clips. Editing tools are oriented toward formats and layouts for individual social channels.
Brand governance is a central part of the product. Organizations upload brand assets — fonts, colors, overlays, filters, graphics, animations and Photoshop (PSD) files — which are distributed to creators through a Brand Hub and branded templates, so that team members without design or video editing training can produce content within a brand framework. Enterprise brand management features allow grouping of users, assets, campaigns, sub-brands and teams. Integrations support importing media and publishing content directly to platforms including Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter. Slate also supplies dedicated account managers with social media backgrounds and creative service and design support.
Founding story
Slate was founded in 2019 by former NFL social media professionals. Michael Horton is identified as co-founder and CEO in the company's 2023 funding announcement.
Business model
Subscription software sold to brands and organizations, with tiered pricing tailored per team based on features, support levels and brand requirements; most subscriptions are stated to range from $5,000 to $20,000 per year. Creative services and dedicated account management accompany the platform.
Annual SaaS subscriptions, with most customer contracts stated at $5,000-$20,000 per year, plus creative and design services support.
Traction
Over 200 brands worldwide as customers as of March 2023, including major US sports leagues and teams; the Dallas Mavericks are cited as creating 100+ posts weekly on the platform. Third-party data estimates annual revenue in the $10M-$25M range and approximately 73 employees as of July 2026.
Latest developments
Slate continues to publish recurring product update posts ("What's New in Slate") through mid-2026 and promotes AI long-to-short video clipping, AI captioning, mobile apps, brand templates and Brand Hub as core features.
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Market position
Positioned as an enterprise-grade, brand-controlled alternative to general-purpose consumer editing tools; customers describe replacing CapCut workflows with Slate and compare it to Canva and CapCut built for brand social teams. As of March 2023 the company reported use by over 200 brands and by every major US sports league.
Combines social-format video and image editing with enforced brand controls, so non-designers can create content that stays within a brand's style guide; brand style guides are converted into a templated creation environment, and enterprise brand/asset management is coupled with human creative services and account managers with social media experience.
Technology
Web-based creation studio plus mobile apps, with AI used for clipping long video into short social clips and for automated captioning. The platform ingests creative file formats such as Photoshop PSDs and TTF fonts, and integrates with social platforms for publishing. Reported web/tech stack includes Mixpanel, Visual Website Optimizer, Chili Piper, Cloudflare CDN, Segment, MySQL and PHP.
Go-to-market
Direct sales via demo requests and self-serve free trials on the company website, supported by dedicated account managers, customer case studies and content marketing (blog, product update posts).
Brand and social media teams at large organizations, including professional sports leagues and teams, universities, media and entertainment companies, and beauty, fashion, retail, fitness and gaming brands. Named users include the NFL, VISA, Nickelodeon, Budweiser, HOKA, Bleacher Report, Amazon, Apollo.io, the Dallas Mavericks, the Detroit Pistons and the Houston Rockets.
Geography
Headquartered at 347 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1402, New York, NY 10016, United States, serving brands worldwide including major sports leagues and teams in the US and abroad; third-party data cites employees across North America, Asia and Europe.
History
Founded in 2019, Slate had grown to serve more than 200 brands worldwide by March 2023, when it announced $5.5 million in seed funding led by Charge Ventures. The company is headquartered in New York.
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Key figures
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsSlate announced seed funding totaling $5.5 million, led by NYC-based Charge Ventures with participation from Interplay VC, Wise Ventures, TitletownTech, LAUNCH and others.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Slateteams do?
- Slate is an AI-assisted content creation platform that lets brand social media teams edit, brand and publish video and image content.
- Who are Slateteams's investors?
- Slateteams's investors include TitletownTech, 37 Angels, Interplay Ventures Early Stage Management Llc, Signal Peak Ventures.