Victor Riparbelli co-founded Synthesia in 2017 alongside three other co-founders with backgrounds spanning computer vision research and enterprise software, building the company around a specific, well-defined enterprise use case: AI-generated corporate training and communications video. As CEO, Riparbelli has emphasized this focus on business customers rather than consumer-facing creative tools as a deliberate differentiator from other AI video companies.
Riparbelli has overseen Synthesia's growth to more than 60,000 business customers, positioning the company's avatar-based video generation as a faster, cheaper alternative to traditional video production for repetitive corporate content needs like onboarding and compliance training.