Descript is a video and podcast editor built around text-based editing. Edit a transcript, the video updates. The product also covers screen recording, remote recording via Rooms, AI captions, voice cloning, and filler-word removal.

Customers include Amazon, Apple, Canva, Figma, GitHub, Microsoft, Salesforce, Spotify, the New York Times, and CBS.

Raised $100M total, with the OpenAI Startup Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, Redpoint Ventures, and Spark Capital named as primary investors.

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