Ponder is a team of exited founders, filmmakers, ex-YC engineers, and creative technologists.

We're building Cursor for video editing:

• An agentic video editing interface for editing, manipulating, and generating videos
• Training models to cut, classify, and edit videos (story intelligence)

We recently raised 2.5 Million and have over 25,000 waitlist sign-ups and are iterating with some of the top creatives & creators in the world.

Our demo received massive viral attention organically:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKxCUB5CJjc/

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIv3JL8xd98/

https://x.com/timwangyc/status/1911839154083618858

Mission

• Make professional video creators extremely productive & more enjoyable
• Offer non-professional video creators an interface that encourages experimentation, iteration, and control to become better creatives

We are doing so in the following phases:

1. Agentic video orchestration for professionals (video editing)
2. Integrate generative models in practical ways for professionals (inpainting, vid2vid, motion graphics, etc.)
3. Simplify the interface to serve billions of potential video creators

Our Investors

Aaron Levie (Box.com), Jared Leto, Emery Wells (Frame.io), Joshua Browder, Matt Hartman, Daniel Shiffman (Coding Train), Sunflower Capital, Comma Capital, Darian Shirazi (GP at Gradient Ventures), Elliot Choy (YouTuber), Ben Pasternak (Believe), Evelyn Ha (YouTuber), Cory Levy, and many more creators, founders & top tier investors.