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Utopai Studios

As of 10 Nov 2026, Utopai Studios has raised $60M across 1 verified round on record; latest: $60 million Series A, announced 9 Nov 2026.

Utopai Studios is an AI film and television studio creating original IP, powered by PAI (Production Assistive Intelligence).

utopaistudios.comLinkedInMountain View, CaliforniaFounded 202280+ people

LATEST ROUND

Series A

$60M · 2026-11-09

RAISED ON RECORD · USD

$60M

across 1 verified round

ROUNDS ON RECORD

1 published

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Every round on record, with the sources behind each and the investors on them.

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Series A

$60M · 2026-11-09

at $1 billion valuation

lead not stated

Round	Amount	Announced	Lead	Buzz
Series A	$60M at $1 billion valuation	2026-11-09	not stated	4 outlets. #33 in Trending
4 sources · checked 1 time, last 28m ago [ VERIFIED ] read against 4 sources Source 1 explicitly labels the financing Series A; Source 4 reports the same $60 million financing and $1 billion valuation without naming the stage. Sources 2 and 3 recall the round as background to executive-hiring stories.; not on the page it cites, so not applied: date

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Utopai Studios makes original films and television series and builds PAI, an AI production engine for filmmakers and creative teams.

Founders

Cecilia Shen · Co-founder and CEO
Before co-founding Utopai, she left the University of Waterloo and worked at the Royal Bank of Canada and Google’s X moonshot factory.
Jie Yang · Co-founder and CTO
Before co-founding Utopai, he worked at Google Research and Google X and was a founding team member and Head of Research at Mineral, an Alphabet moonshot that became an independent company.

Competitors

Runway, Luma, Higgsfield, Asteria Film Co.

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