Top 2 Video Effects Software Companies With $5M–$10M Revenue (September 2026)

Stockholm, Sweden

Provider of image composition services intended to be used in matters of film editing. The company develops a cloud-based platform that offers a global repository of nodes for image composition, analysis and processing services for film production.

Paris, France

SubMagic is a France-based AI video tool that enables creators to produce viral short-form content, including AI-generated captions and clip extraction from long-form video. The company was founded in May 2023 by David Zitoun and his co-founder, and is headquartered in France with most of its revenue coming from the United States. Zitoun serves as Co-Founder and CEO and runs the company with a team of 13 people. SubMagic reached $1M ARR exactly three months after acquiring its first customer in May 2023, hitting that milestone on August 1, 2023. By June 2025, the company had grown to $8M ARR, fully bootstrapped with no outside funding. The company sees between 5,000 and 10,000 new signups per day, converted roughly 2,500 new paid customers in its most recent month, and carries a monthly logo churn rate of approximately 15%. Its affiliate program, which pays 30% of lifetime customer value, accounts for more than 10,000 active affiliates and directly drives 20% of total revenue. The single most striking strategic fact is that SubMagic scaled from zero to $8M ARR in two years with 13 employees, generating roughly $700,000 of revenue per employee, by combining precise timing with the short-form content boom, a generous affiliate program launched within 30 days of its first customer, and a relentless focus on a three-click product experience rather than paid acquisition.