By Ahana Verma 
When Nimish Goel, Co-Founder and CEO of TrueFan AI, says “video shall become the core layer of communication for enterprises,” he is not speaking in the future tense. He is describing something his company is already building and a $10 million Series A round led by Baring Private Equity Partners India and Z3Partners just gave it the fuel to go global.
The Gurugram-based startup, which quietly pivoted from celebrity fan engagement to enterprise AI video infrastructure, is now generating over 20 million AI videos annually up from 5 million just a year ago and is on track to hit 50 million by the end of 2026. The clients on its roster read like a who’s-who of Indian enterprise: Bajaj Finance, HDFC Bank, Axis Max Life Insurance, Cipla, BharatPe, Zomato, and Goibibo.
The Pivot That Changed Everything
TrueFan AI was not always an enterprise play. Founded in 2020 by Devender Bindal, Nimish Goel, and Nevaid Aggarwal, the company started as a celebrity fan-tech engagement platform think personalised shoutout videos from Bollywood stars and cricketers. That market had a ceiling. Enterprise video communication did not.
The pivot was clean and calculated. The same underlying technology that let a celebrity record one video and personalise it for thousands of fans could be applied to let a bank record one training video and personalise it for 50,000 relationship managers across twenty states in twelve languages. The same avatar technology that made a Bollywood star feel personally accessible could make a CEO’s message feel like a one-on-one conversation with every employee.
TrueFan AI has developed a foundational AI video model that enables organisations to generate on-demand videos without traditional production cycles, and has built AI avatars for a diverse range of users, including Bollywood celebrities, cricketers, doctors, distributors, merchants and corporate leaders.
What the Platform Actually Does
The core capability is both technically remarkable and commercially obvious once you understand it: TrueFan AI’s platform can generate thousands of personalised videos from a single five-minute recording.
For a large bank like HDFC or Bajaj Finance, this transforms a fundamental cost structure. Previously, creating personalised video communication at scale required shoots, post-production, localisation, and approval cycles that could take weeks and cost crores. TrueFan compresses that to hours and a fraction of the cost.
The application spans the entire enterprise communication stack. TrueFan AI builds AI generated video content for enterprises spanning industries such as banking, FMCG, retail, healthcare, and hospitality, spanning functions such as communications, language localisation, and advertisement.
Now the company is moving into its most ambitious product yet: real-time AI video agents. TrueFan AI is building real-time AI video agents that can interact dynamically across customer support, sales, onboarding, and product discovery use cases, moving enterprise video from one-way communication to real-time interaction.
This is the product that could define TrueFan’s next chapter. An AI video agent that can respond to a customer’s question with a contextually accurate, personalised, real-time video response — not a pre-recorded clip — is a genuinely new category of customer interaction.
The Global Market Context
TrueFan is not building in isolation. The global AI video category is scaling rapidly. Platforms such as Synthesia and HeyGen have each reportedly crossed $100 million in ARR, with HeyGen reporting over 100 million videos generated on its platform.
That establishes both the proof of concept and the competitive landscape. Synthesia and HeyGen built for Western enterprise markets. TrueFan’s opportunity is the mirror image: an Indian-built platform that understands Indian linguistic diversity, Indian enterprise communication patterns, and Indian regulatory environments — built specifically for the country that produces more enterprise video content consumers than almost anywhere else on earth.
TrueFan AI has scaled from generating five million videos annually to more than 20 million over the past year, while recording 11-fold revenue growth in the last 20 months. The company reported revenue of ₹17.1 crore in FY25, reflecting 131% year-on-year growth — numbers that justified the Series A and suggest the international expansion targets are credible.
What the $10M Will Build
The fresh capital will be directed toward three priorities: international expansion, AI infrastructure development, and enterprise deployment. TrueFan AI has already begun receiving inbound demand from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and the United States.
For Indian founders watching this raise, the TrueFan story offers a clean template: start with a consumer-facing version to build the technology, pivot to enterprise once the unit economics are clear, then use enterprise revenue and credibility to fund the international expansion. It is not the fastest path. But it is a durable one.
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Raghav Sharma