Gil Perry
- Co-Founder and CEO at D-ID
GetLatka interview
How D-ID Raised $24M, Reached Dozens of Customers and Powered MyHeritage's Deep Nostalgia (Interview with CEO Gil Perry)
Gil Perry (Co-Founder and CEO of D-ID) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 12, 2021.
D-ID figures from the interview
- Total Funding Raised
- $24M
- Customers (2021)
- Dozens
- Team Size (2021)
- 24
- Engineers (2021)
- 13 or 14
- Sales Reps (2021)
- 1
“So, D-ID, as you said, we founded the company four years ago, myself, together with my co founders, Eliran Kuta and Sella Blondheim, and basically, we started from protecting privacy, protecting against face recognition, that's how the company started, And recently, after gaining lots of expertise and core competency around the face space, deep learning and computer vision, we've entered into the media and entertainment market.”
“So basically, there is an annual license that we are being paid, and then we are being paid for every call to our API. Okay, so we are a SaaS company, for example, you probably heard about Deep Nostalgia product that we sold to MyHeritage. So they are using our API, and we are being paid for every call, every animation that is being made, we are being paid. So until today, in the past two months, for example, with this customer, there were 80,000,000 calls to the API.”
“We are talking about hundreds of thousands, but it really depends on the scale. There can be a customer that is small, it's a startup, and it can be... Now we are launching soon with the big social network, so it's huge.”
Bio
Gil is CEO & co-founder of D-ID, which he established in 2017 with his friends and fellow co-founders COO Sella Blondheim and CTO Eliran Kuta. He has broad experience as a manager and developer in corporate and start-up environments. Gil has commanding experience in a special forces unit of the Israeli Defense Forces. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, where he focused on computer vision and image processing.