Databuddy · B2B · Oct 2026
Startup launch video examples
354 launch videos from 353 early-stage startups: 320 from Y Combinator, 26 from Station F Future 40, 8 from French Tech. The median startup launch runs 75s, and 48% show a product demo.
- 354
- launch videos
- 75s
- median length
- 24
- scenes per video
- 58%
- have a hook
Measured on the films below, updated November 10, 2026. How we measure
60 of 354 launches
- 0:56Iza - Excited to announce that @trydatabuddy is part of the YC F26 batch!
- 1:45herdr - *ehm ehm* BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS DAY 📣 two new things cooking in herdr la
herdr · B2B · Oct 2026
- 0:25Instinct - Today, we are releasing the first frontier agent harness built to giv
Instinct · Fintech · Oct 2026
- 1:47Sam Gorman - Today we're launching Rivet, a tool that explores dozens of interface
Rivet · B2B · Jul 2026
- 1:37Tenor (YC S26) - Today we are excited to launch Tenor, backed by @ycombinator (S26).
Tenor · B2B · Aug 2026
- 0:10idler - Today, we're introducing idler – a frontier data research lab. We've
idler · B2B · Aug 2026
- 1:01Y Combinator - Pops (@pops_fyi) lets anyone create and play AI games. Describe your
Pops · Consumer · May 2026
- 2:12Anicet - introducing boat, the best sandbox infra for agents > full VMs, u
Boat · B2B · Oct 2026
- 2:13Introducing Letterpress-1: the coding agent for growth engineering
The Letter Company · B2B · Nov 2026
- 0:49Result - Cloud VMs keep getting hacked, so we built the first on-device iPhone
Result · Consumer · Nov 2026
- 0:15Moving Atoms (YC S26) - Moving Atoms (YC S26): Scan to Sim is here. Send us a LiDAR or SLAM
Moving Atoms · Industrials · Oct 2026
- 2:03Quippy - Like the gym, but for your social skills
Quippy · Consumer · Oct 2026
- 2:41Y Combinator - Golpo (@GolpoAI) is the most powerful AI video generator for explaine
Golpo · B2B · Jul 2025
- 1:24SAPIEN - This is Sapien.
Sapien · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:11Richard Wang - Support teams spend their days digging, escalating, and re-explaining
Clad Labs · B2B · Sep 2026
- 0:38Maayan Albert - I was shocked that 3/4s of designers work in coding agents rather tha
Proto · B2B · Nov 2026
- 1:12Maritime (YC F26): The managed cloud for AI agents
Maritime · B2B · Oct 2026
- 0:34Shotwell. - Today, we are releasing over 415 hrs of annotations on top of the exp
shotwell.ai · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 2:07Y Combinator - Wato (@watolabs) is building the collaboration layer for teams workin
Wato · B2B · Jun 2026
- 0:27Forum - Trade popularity on Forum Waitlist:
Forum · Fintech · Jul 2026
- 1:19Graphify: The Knowledge Graphs Layer for Claude Code & AI Coding Agents | YC S26
Graphify Labs · B2B · Aug 2026
- 1:09Fernando Young - Starting today, any company can scale creator marketing like paid ads
Beluga · B2B · Jul 2026
- 1:59Prescience - Launch YC - Modern Health Insurance
Prescience, Inc. · Healthcare · Jul 2026
- 1:27Applied Electrodynamics
Applied Electrodynamics, Inc. · Industrials · Jul 2026
- 1:48Ryan Morrissey - We have spent weeks making the best cloud coding platform out there
Hoplite · B2B · Jul 2026
- 0:38Vous êtes maintenant plus de 100 000 à utiliser Folhomee 😜
Folhomee · Sep 2019
- 3:16Nori Launch Video
Nori · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 1:52Dipole Labs - The most expensive computers ever built spend half their time waiting
Dipole Labs · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 1:10Introducing: Norn - Artificial intuition for marketing
Native · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:07Introducing Orgo - Computers for AI Agents
Orgo · B2B · Nov 2025
- 0:35FACTIO.ORG - Plateforme de lobbying citoyen
Factio · Sep 2019
- 1:27Archal - API sandboxes, built for AI agents
Archal · B2B · Aug 2026
- 1:56Neuromorphic YC S26 Launch Video
Neuromorphic · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 0:48Adside AI - AI agents for paid ads on Meta, Google, LinkedIn and more
Adside.ai · B2B · Oct 2026
- 0:26Ara (YC P26) Launch Video
Reason Machines · B2B · May 2026
- 0:12Sherpa Labs - Today, we are announcing Sherpa Labs. We build RL environments for kn
Sherpa Labs · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:44Give your AI agents email, phone, iMessage, and an internet address | Inkbox (YC S26)
Inkbox · B2B · Jul 2026
- 1:19Edgerun: The 10 lb Military Exoskeleton
Edgerun · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 1:43Introducing Vexo
Vexo · Consumer · Oct 2026
- 1:25Praxis YC S26 Launch
Praxis Robotics · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 1:28Ekpa Demo Video
Ekpa · Fintech · Jul 2026
- 3:55Primitive - we 💌 email
primitive · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:10Shiraz AI (YC S26): Robots that learn on the job
Shiraz AI · Industrials · Aug 2026
- 1:23Litmus - Run an async work trial on every engineer you interview.
Litmus · B2B · Jul 2026
- 1:24Stoa - The market behind AI hardware
Stoa · Fintech · Jul 2026
- 1:27Glen - Glen is now open to the public!
Glen · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:07Build anything with Tensr
Tensr · Industrials · Nov 2025
- 1:00RATLOG - Building reusable heavy-lift rockets
RATLOG · Industrials · Oct 2026
- 2:37Vision-Tactile Labeled Dataset
6thSense · Industrials · Jun 2026
- 0:43Dream (YC S26)
Dream · B2B · Aug 2026
- 0:50DeepReach AI - Everyone can run a data business
DeepReach Inc. · B2B · Aug 2026
- 1:45Invertix launch
Invertix · Industrials · Sep 2026
- 0:56Context.dev - Live web data API for AI agents
Context.dev · Developer tools · Aug 2026
- 2:18CarSignal YC Launch
CarSignal · Aug 2026
- 1:03Roma (YC F26): The AI To-Do List That Does Itself
Roma · Consumer · Oct 2026
- 1:22Egoist Machines Founder Launch
Egoist Machines · Consumer · Aug 2026
- 1:50Running robot brains in the cloud | Dreamscale Labs (YC F26)
Dreamscale Labs · Industrials · Sep 2026
- 1:15screenpipe (YC S26) | Record how you work and turn that into agents
Screenpipe · Jul 2026
- 1:24Voyager - AI Harness for Creative Work
Voyager · B2B · Oct 2026
- 1:07Launching Neuron Industries
Neuron Industries · Jul 2026
Questions
- How long is a startup launch video?
- The median runs 75s, and half of them last between 57s and 95s. Measured on 354 films in Launchscene.
- What does a startup launch video usually show?
- 58% have a hook scene, 48% a product demo, 32% social proof and 59% a call to action, over a median of 24 scenes. Every scene in Launchscene is labelled with its role.
- Which motion techniques do they use most?
- The most used are kinetic type (77%), 3D mockup (54%), cursor demo (44%): the share of films that use each technique at least once.
- Do they use a voiceover?
- 80% of those whose sound is analysed have a voiceover; the others rely on music and on-screen text.





















































































































