GetLatka interview
How Akool Grew from $100K to $25M Revenue Selling AI Video Tools (Interview with Founder and CEO Jeff Lu)
Jeff Lu (Founder and CEO of Akool) spoke to Nathan Latka on July 14, 2026.
Akool figures from the interview
- Revenue (2025)
- $25M
- Revenue (June 2026)
- $3M+
- Largest Contract (2026)
- $4M per year
- Total Funding Raised
- $10M
- Last Priced Valuation (2024)
- $100M
“Last month's revenue, I think it's over $3,000,000.”
“For the swap series of the models, we're actually not just fine tuning. We are designing the model from scratch and doing the models ourselves. So it's a pretty different model architecture and training data size and so on. So the result quality and how it handles the corner cases and the boundary cases are very different.”
“We are not building the largest video foundation models. We are building like video models for specific tasks. So for example, the avatar, you generate humans in the video. Human generation for only that task, and then the model is much smaller.”