Vadoo Ai
Entrepreneur First '20Bangalore, IN · Founded 2020 · 3 known investors
Vadoo AI is a platform that generates videos and images from text, scripts, or prompts using multiple AI models. It targets creators, marketers, and businesses, supporting content such as explainer videos, short-form social clips, product demos, and long-form to short-form repurposing, along with captions, voiceovers, and translations.
Also known as Vadoo AI · vadoo.tv · VadooAI
Founders & leadership
Vadoo Ai was founded in 2020 by Ankur Singh and Anil Matcha.
Investors · 3
Also in the syndicate · 2
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Vadoo AI is an all-in-one generative AI content platform for producing videos and images from text prompts, scripts, uploaded footage or images. The web app (ai.vadoo.tv) aggregates a large number of third-party generation models under a single workflow, including video models such as Kling AI, Veo3, Hailuo AI, Vidu AI, Luma AI, Pika AI, PixVerse, Wanx, Seedance, Hunyuan and Runway, and image models including Nano Banana, Recraft, Stable Diffusion, several Flux variants, DALL-E, Imagen, GPT-4o, Flux Kontext and Midjourney.
Core capabilities include text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video restyling across more than 30 animation styles, AI animation generation, and a library of over 150 video filters and photo effects. Ancillary tools cover AI voiceover and voice cloning, lip sync, dubbing, captions, background removal, image and video upscaling, thumbnail creation, product photography, storyboards, AI music, AI podcasts, UGC-style video and AI influencer generation. The dashboard also exposes AI agents, workflows, an auto mode, a calendar/scheduler and a built-in video editor.
For short-form social workflows, the platform generates scripted clips with B-roll, transitions and captions, identifies high-potential segments in long-form video using a "Virality Score," repurposes long-form content into shorts, produces faceless, fake-text and Reddit-story videos, and auto-publishes to YouTube Shorts and TikTok. Podcasts can be constructed from PDFs, websites or custom text and produced in 32 languages with custom voices. A REST API supports bulk generation and integration with Zapier, Make and Pabbly Connect. Note that the platform description in the public sources differs materially from the peer-to-peer video delivery/bandwidth-reduction positioning held in internal records.
Founding story
Third-party sources identify Ankur Singh as co-founder (listed as the founder contact on AppSumo) and Anil Chandra Naidu Matcha, described as an IIT Delhi alumnus and former Samsung and Cisco engineer, as co-founder. One review source states the company was founded in November 2019 in Bengaluru, India; AppSumo's listing states a founding date of May 20, 2020. Sources do not otherwise detail the founding motivation beyond a stated response to demand for accessible video creation tools.
Business model
Vadoo AI operates a self-serve SaaS platform with freemium access and credit-based subscription tiers. Published plans are Starter at $19/month, Pro at $39/month, and Advance at $99/month and $249/month (with discounted yearly-billing equivalents of $13 and $27/month for Starter and Pro), differentiated by monthly credit allowance (1,500 to 10,000), auto-posting frequency, number of parallel tasks, template/effect access and model availability. The company has also sold lifetime-access licenses through the AppSumo marketplace across six tiers ($89 to $1,199) that bundle monthly credits, top-up credits and storage (10-70 GB). An API (viralapi.vadoo.tv) supports programmatic and bulk video generation, integrated with automation tools such as Zapier, Make and Pabbly Connect.
Recurring subscription revenue from credit-metered monthly and yearly plans ($19/$39/$99/$249 per month at monthly billing; $13 and $27 per month equivalents for Starter and Pro on yearly billing), plus one-time lifetime license sales through AppSumo ($89-$1,199 across six tiers, refundable within 60 days) and API-based usage for bulk generation.
Traction
The AppSumo lifetime deal accumulated 168 reviews before selling out. A directory profile records a 4.2 rating (one user rating) and about 15.9K monthly clicks as of August 2026. The login page claims 1M+ creators and 1M+ videos rendered across 100+ models; the marketing site elsewhere references a 10M+ user figure attributed to Pollo AI, which appears to be unrelated boilerplate.
Latest developments
The website promotes early access to the Seedance 2.5 video model and the dashboard lists recent model-driven apps including Seedance 2 Character, Sora 2 Characters, Sora 2 Pro Storyboard, Nano Banana Pro and Vibe Motion. A directory profile updated 2026-08-20 lists the tool as verified and featured with roughly 15.9K monthly clicks. The AppSumo lifetime deal is shown as sold out.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
A small, early-stage (pre-seed, 1-10 employees) entrant in the crowded AI video generation market. VentureRadar groups it with companies such as Argil, Capsule, OpusClip, PixVerse, Synthesia and Captions; AppSumo positions it as an alternative to Canva, iMovie and Kapwing. Self-reported platform figures cite 1M+ creators, 1M+ videos rendered and 100+ neural models, but these are not independently verified in the sources.
The platform's stated positioning is breadth: access to many leading third-party video and image generation models through one interface and credit balance, combined with editing, effects, agents, scheduling and direct auto-posting to social channels, so users do not need to subscribe to individual model providers or separate editing tools. Directory listings position it as an alternative to Canva, iMovie and Kapwing.
Technology
A model-aggregation layer that routes user prompts to numerous third-party generative video and image models, wrapped in workflow tooling: script generation, automated clipping and captioning, B-roll and transition insertion, voice cloning and dubbing, upscaling, style transfer, virality scoring of long-form video segments, AI agents and automated publishing. Access is provided through a browser dashboard and a REST API endpoint (POST https://viralapi.vadoo.tv/api/generate_video) accepting parameters such as topic, voice, theme, language, duration and aspect ratio.
Go-to-market
Product-led and self-serve: a free tier and low-priced monthly subscriptions purchased directly on the website, supplemented by lifetime-deal distribution on the AppSumo marketplace (now sold out) which generated 168 reviews. Additional channels include an API and automation-tool integrations (Zapier, Make, Pabbly Connect, YouTube), listings on AI tool directories, a YouTube channel, a Discord community, a blog and documentation/help resources.
Content creators, YouTubers, marketers, solopreneurs, podcasters and businesses producing short-form social content for TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, as well as developers automating bulk video generation via API.
Geography
Headquartered in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, with a web-based product serving an international user base; podcast output is supported in 32 languages and video generation in multiple languages.
History
Sources give differing formation dates: AppSumo's company panel lists a founding date of May 20, 2020 and VentureRadar lists 2020, while a third-party review site states the company was founded in November 2019. The company is based in Bengaluru/Bangalore, India, and is described as pre-seed stage with 1-10 employees. Its current product line centres on aggregated generative video and image models, an AI app catalogue and a creator dashboard at ai.vadoo.tv, and it has distributed lifetime licenses via AppSumo.
Risks & controversies
Public sources do not report controversies. Observable risks include heavy dependence on third-party foundation models (Kling, Veo3, Runway, Sora, Midjourney and others) for core functionality, dependence on social platform APIs for auto-posting, a very small team, and inconsistent public information about the company's founding date and business focus (peer-to-peer video delivery in internal records versus generative video creation in all current public sources).
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.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsVadoo AI was offered on AppSumo as a lifetime-access deal across six license tiers priced from $89 to $1,199; the listing shows 168 reviews and a sold-out status.
Vadoo AI's site promotes early access to the Seedance 2.5 video model within its multi-model generation platform.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
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primary sources listed
- Vadoo Aivadoo.tv · web
8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does Vadoo Ai do?
- Bengaluru-based AI platform that generates videos and images from prompts using many third-party models in one workflow.
- Who founded Vadoo Ai?
- Vadoo Ai was founded by Ankur Singh, Anil Matcha in 2020.
- Who are Vadoo Ai's investors?
- Vadoo Ai's investors include Entrepreneur First.
- Where is Vadoo Ai headquartered?
- Vadoo Ai is headquartered in Bangalore, IN.