Rembrand just dropped $23M in fresh paint on the wall, and it is not decorative. Series A, led by super{set}, with The Trade Desk, Naver D2SF, and Omega Venture Partners stepping in, plus continued conviction from Greycroft and BOLD, L’Oréal’s venture arm. This is not speculative capital. This is the advertising ecosystem signaling, in unison, that it sees where video monetization is actually going, not where the slide decks said it was five years ago.
Founded in 2022, Rembrand shows up with experience baked in. Omar Tawakol has already built and sold category-defining data companies. Ahmed Saad engineered virtual product placement at Amazon Prime Video before it was a buzzword. Abdelrahman Mohamed brings deep Meta AI and Amazon Alexa research muscle. David Wiener has shipped AI products that scale. Rishav Jalan has built real systems, not theory. Nikki Heyder helped shape product and growth early, then stepped aside once the engine was running. This is not a collection of resumes. It is a group that understands how content, data, and money actually intersect.
The insight is almost rude in its simplicity. Video is everywhere. Attention is scarce. Nobody wakes up excited for pre-roll. Rembrand’s Generative Fusion AI lets brands exist inside the scene, not scream over it. Post-production, photorealistic, spatially aware, and fast enough to turn weeks of VFX into hours. Same video, different brands by region. Creators keep control. The ad feels native because it is. That is how you quietly rack up $250M paid views in 2024 without chasing vanity metrics.
The client list reads like an advertising ecosystem stress test. PepsiCo. L’Oréal. Garnier. Charles Schwab. Amazon. Virgin Galactic. Lenovo. Different industries, same conclusion. In-content placements drive a 150% lift in unaided brand awareness and a 20 to 31% boost in recall. When results look like that, even the most stubborn CMO stops pretending banners are doing real work.
This round is about scale and gravity. CTV expansion. Professional film and TV workflows. Programmatic pipes through The Trade Desk’s Kokai. The Spaceback merger adding creative firepower. The Mirriad U.S. acquisition pulling Rembrand deeper into Hollywood economics. A $23B product placement market that never learned to move at internet speed just met its accelerant.
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