Sequoia Leads Seed Round in AI-Native Video Production Platform Preview

Sequoia Leads Seed Round in AI-Native Video Production Platform Preview Sequoia Capital has led the seed funding round for Preview, an AI-native video creation and production platform built to replace fragmented, legacy editing pipelines for professional studios. Preview unifies an infinite ideation canvas and a video timeline into a collaborative workspace that logs asset provenance and tracks production elements. The platform is designed to resolve workflow bottlenecks where generation, review, and production tracking are currently divided across separate legacy tools. Co-founded by former Veed and Vizcom team members Stefan Fejes and Veljko Tornjanski, Preview is already used by more than 100 studios ranging from commercial agencies to Hollywood filmmakers. Addressing Bottlenecks in AI Video Production While generative video models have advanced significantly, professional creators remain constrained by legacy workflows built around traditional file capture, upload, and editing. Production teams frequently juggle separate applications for generation, review, and production tracking, which strains workflows under high asset volumes and complicates legal clearance tracking for finished shots. Platform Capabilities and Market Adoption Preview provides a unified workspace combining a video timeline with an infinite ideation canvas, allowing creative teams to generate with any model while tracking characters, props, and locations with complete provenance records. Founded by Stefan Fejes and Veljko Tornjanski, the platform has reached more than 100 studios, including commercial agencies creating work for Fortune 500 brands, AI-native studios, and Hollywood feature filmmakers.

红杉资本领投AI原生视频创作平台Preview种子轮融资 红杉资本宣布领投AI原生视频创作平台Preview的种子轮融资。随着视频生成模型迅速发展，传统视频制作工具链已难以满足需求，Preview旨在打造面向专业影视创作者的统一协作工作空间。 视频生成技术虽快速演进，但专业影视制作仍受制于生成、审核与追踪割裂的传统工具链 Preview整合了视频时间线与无限画布，支持多模型生成及全流程资产来源追踪 两位创始人Stefan Fejes与Veljko Tornjanski曾为Veed创始团队成员并曾在Vizcom担任核心职务 目前已有包括好莱坞电影制作人及财富500强广告代理商在内的超过100家工作室采用该平台 视频创作行业面临的AI工具链瓶颈 尽管代码生成领域已经出现由Cursor等AI原生工具重塑的全新工作流，但视频制作工具链仍停留在处理庞大文件的传统阶段。当前生成式视频模型已具备充当“新摄像机”的表现力，但创作者因缺乏AI原生工具，只能将模型输出嵌入传统剪辑流程，面临生成、评审与追踪分散在不同软件、素材过载以及成片缺乏版权合规追溯路径等问题。 Preview的产品定位与核心功能 Preview定位为针对专业视频创作者的AI原生制作平台，被称为视频领域的“Cursor”。该平台在一个多人协作空间中将视频时间线与用于创意的无限画布相结合，团队能够调用任意模型进行生成，并对角色、地点、道具以及资产生成记录进行全程追踪，实现了混合制作流程的协同。 团队背景、客户反响与投资理由 Preview由塞尔维亚的高中好友Stefan Fejes和Veljko Tornjanski创立，两人此前曾是视频创作公司Veed的创始团队成员，并在Vizcom分别担任产品负责人和AI负责人。目前已有超过100家工作室正在使用该平台，涵盖500强品牌广告机构、AI原生工作室及好莱坞电影制作方。红杉资本认为随着视频Token推理需求激增，价值将汇聚于创作者日常决策的核心平台，因此决定领投其种子轮融资。

There’s something magical about watching a developer in flow state, fingers flying as they type into Codex, Claude, or Cursor. A powerful creation interface unfolds in response to every keystroke, powering a workflow that would have been unrecognizable, even alien-like, to any professional software engineer just two years ago. The entire IDE has been torn down and rebuilt from scratch for the age of AI, and developers are flying as a result. Video models have raced ahead over the same two years. Yet unlike coding, video creation remains stuck in the stone age, with its entire toolchain still built around capturing, uploading, storing, and editing enormous files. Generative video is at a threshold moment: the models are now expressive enough to become the new camera. The bottleneck is no longer the technical art of animation or the $100M budgets for film crews and visual effects; it’s human creativity and token inference. But video creators are not yet flying. Without a proper AI-native tool suite, or a “Cursor for video,” the people who make films, TV series, and commercials for a living remain stuck bolting model outputs onto legacy editing pipelines. Generation, review, and production tracking each live in a separate application; workflows buckle under the sheer volume of material; and a finished take often can’t be traced back to its source for legal clearance. It’s a gaping problem and is the biggest roadblock on the industry’s path to truly embracing AI. [Preview](https://www.preview.io/) clears that block. An AI-native video creation and production platform built for professional creators, Preview combines a video timeline with an infinite canvas for ideation into one collaborative multiplayer workspace. Teams can generate with any model and track every character, location, and prop, with complete records of how every asset was made. It enables both halves of a hybrid production to work together seamlessly. There is simply nothing like it in the market. Co-founders Stefan Fejes and Veljko Tornjanski have been best friends since high school in Serbia, and were seemingly born for this mission. They were founding team members at video creation pioneer Veed; later, at Vizcom, Veljko was the first hire and became Head of AI, while Stefan led Product. They understand well the tricky nuances of video, they have deep empathy for their customers, and they have delivered sophisticated, polished work on impressively short timelines. More than 100 studios are already actively using Preview, from agencies making commercials for Fortune 500 brands to AI-native studios to Hollywood feature filmmakers. Simply put, they love it. Customers tell us it has become the most significant tool in their work, and the single source of truth from which all downstream inference flows. We are at the precipice of a video token tsunami, and many billions of dollars of inference will run through this category, driving the next wave of iconic films and IP. Value will accrue to where the work actually happens—the platform a creative team opens in the morning and closes at night, where the decisions get made and the record gets kept. We believe Preview is that platform, and that this is the right team, the right product, and the right moment. We are thrilled to partner with Stefan and Veljko and to lead their seed round. Stefan and Veljko in their hometown of Novi Sad, Serbia, June 2026