OpenArt
A San Francisco startup that runs OpenArt, a web platform for generating images, video and characters with AI models.
OpenArt was founded in 2022 by former Google engineers Coco Mao (CEO) and John Qiao (CTO), and began as a site for sharing prompts and generative art before adding tools to create, edit and train custom models. Its One-Click Video Story feature, which turns an idea into a short video, popularised so-called "brain rot" clips; the company's own figure, as relayed by a press profile, is that 6 million users have made such videos.
It raised a $5M seed round in 2023 and a $30M Series A led by Canaan Partners in January 2026, for about $35M in total, per press and investor-database reports. A press profile claims about 8 million monthly users in 190+ countries; user and revenue figures vary between sources. OpenArt's own site said this version of the product would be discontinued on 1 November 2026, with users moved to a new workspace.
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