Media entertainment

Hera

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Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

Hera is an AI motion designer that turns 5-hour projects into 5-minute tasks.

When you're a YouTuber making an infographic animation, instead of spending hours manually clicking buttons in Adobe After Effects, you can create the same animation in minutes in Hera.

Through talking to our users, we realized that 95% of time spent on motion graphics is manual button clicking, not creative work. This insight led us to focus on automating the tedious parts while giving the user all creative control.

We launched in May 2025, got 100k waitlist signups in 8 weeks, and we're doubling revenue monthly.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
Media entertainmentCopilot & assistantConsumersIndividual professionalsSubscription

Founders & team

Peter Tribelhorn

Founder/CEO

Building Hera to make motion design radically faster and easier. Previously acquired and managed big YouTube channels with +30m subs (e.g., Economics Explained, The Game Theorists).

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Chia-Lun Wu

Founder/CTO

Building Hera, an AI motion designer. I was the first engineer/employee at Flagright (YC W22), where I built and led core infrastructure from the ground up and scaled it. I was also an early engineer at Vyond, where I built Vyond Studio, an online video editor used by 20,000 businesses today. I hold an MS in Computer Science from National Taiwan University (NTU) and have been working in software engineering since 2016.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
5team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

News & product activity

Sources & observations

Y Combinator

Profile depthverified profile
Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedBerlin, Berlin, Germany
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Launched · 3 of 6 areas documented

Source-based assessment · automated evidence rules

The company website offers product access through a trial, free start, app download, purchase, or onboarding with existing-account login. Customer adoption is not established by this evidence.

Company website: home Checked 2026-11-13

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