Lightricks is an AI-first company that builds visual content creation tools, ranging from consumer mobile apps to open-source generative models. Its product suite has accumulated 730 million downloads worldwide, serves 15 million monthly active users, and generates over 60 million content exports each month. The company is valued at $1.8 billion and has raised $335 million from investors including Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Insight Partners, and Viola Ventures. It operates across five international offices with a team of over 600 people.
Its flagship applications span photo editing, video creation, and AI-powered content production. Facetune, positioned as the world's number one selfie editing app, sits alongside Videoleap, Photoleap, and LTX Studio. Popular Pays rounds out the product portfolio. On the research side, Lightricks developed LTX-2, an open-source generative video model built to produce high-fidelity video at speed, targeting use cases from individual creators through to professional studios.
The company's technical work spans artificial intelligence, generative video models, mobile application development, and deep research. Its engineering culture emphasises end-to-end product execution and a user-first design philosophy. Lightricks grew from a bootstrapped startup to its current scale without early external funding, a trajectory that shapes its operational approach.
