December 17, 2025. While half the market is still polishing decks and arguing about narratives, Arcads.ai went ahead and closed a $16M Seed. Mont Saint Aignan, France is not where people expect the future of performance video to come from, which is usually how you know it is real. Quiet places build loud outcomes.
Arcads.ai was founded in Sept 2023 by Dylan Fournier and Romain Torres, repeat founders who already paid tuition in the real world. HelloFreshr proved distribution muscle early. Class Growth was built, scaled, and sold. A mobile app studio followed. The pattern stays consistent, learn where friction lives, remove it, then move fast without asking for applause.
The product exists because the problem refused to be ignored. Marketing teams are expected to generate thousands of social videos in hyper-competitive feeds where attention expires every few seconds. Arcads.ai answers with AI actors, UGC-style ads, product demos, try-ons, unboxings, all social-ready, all in 35+ languages, generated in roughly 2.5 minutes per video. This is not theory. This is throughput.
The numbers explain why this round matters. Bootstrapped. Profitable. First customer Jan 2024. $1M ARR by June 2024. By spring 2025, roughly $1M in new ARR added every month. $13M ARR in under 18 months with a team of seven people. That is not hustle culture. That is operational clarity.
Eurazeo led the round through Thomas Turelier, joined by Alpha Intelligence Capital with Axel Badalian, Super Capital via Thibaut Gimenez, and participation from the Sequoia Scout program. This is not tourist capital. This is money that understands distribution is the fight, not the footnote.
Under the hood sits a library of 1,000+ AI actors, real humans with consent and fully AI-generated avatars, emotion control through text, batch creation, instant demographic swaps, product placement, and private APIs connected to frontier models like Sora 2, Veo 3.1, and Kling. Infrastructure for attention beats novelty every time.
6K clients use the platform globally, with more than half in the U.S. Top media buyers spending $100M+ annually rely on it. Nearly 100,000 assets are generated per month. Candy Crush and Voodoo show up as logos, but the real signal is $1.2M in revenue per employee. The funding fuels U.S. expansion, a planned SF office, and deeper video capabilities. The subtext is obvious. Distribution wins. Speed compounds. Arcads.ai is building the factory that keeps shipping while everyone else is still debating tone.
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