Tavus is an AI research company that builds multimodal human-computing models, APIs, and real-time conversational video experiences. Tavus's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #47,412 (top 10%) among 483,944 tracked accounts.
Tavus was co-founded by Hassaan Raza as CEO and Quinn Favret as COO. The company describes its core mission as teaching machines to see, hear, understand, remember, and respond with emotional intelligence in real time, positioning itself as a foundational AI research lab in the human-computing space. Its product lineup includes the Conversational Video Interface, PALs, PAL Maker, and proprietary models such as Phoenix-4, Sparrow-1, and Raven-1. PALs are agentic AI humans that operate across video, voice, and text, drawing on Tavus models for rendering, conversational intelligence, and perception.
Tavus raised an $18 million Series A led by Scale Venture Partners in March 2024, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, and HubSpot, per TechCrunch. In November 2025, the company announced a $40 million Series B led by CRV, with Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, HubSpot Ventures, and Flex Capital also participating. Tavus has 10,480 followers as of August 2026 and has published 1,350 posts. The account has been mentioned by 33 accounts, with 48 total mentions.
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The accounts that follow Tavus include 119 founders, 31 angel investors, 25 influencers and 2 VCs. Among them are Joseph Lubin, Garry Tan, Soby, Julien B, Erick Snowfro LAO and Martin Shkreli.