Rubbrband

Rubbrband is an AI-powered content production platform for film and advertising — providing AI storyboarding, automated trailer and ad generation, and film launch tools that help content creators, marketing teams, and studios produce promotional video content faster and at lower cost than traditional production workflows. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco and a Y Combinator W23 graduate, Rubbrband raised $500,000 from Amino Capital and Microsoft's M12, achieving $2.7 million in revenue in 2024 with an 18-person team.\n\nRubbrband's platform enables users to generate visual storyboards from scripts or text descriptions, create trailer cuts from existing footage using AI editing, and produce promotional campaign assets (social clips, trailers, teasers) with automated workflow tools that reduce the skilled editor and motion designer time required for promotional content production. The film launch use case targets independent filmmakers and studio marketing departments who need to produce high volumes of promotional content across social platforms for theatrical or streaming releases.\n\nIn 2025, Rubbrband competes in the AI video production and creative tools market with Runway ML (AI video generation), Adobe Premiere Pro's AI features, and film-specific production tools like Aidio and Storyboard That for AI-powered creative content production. The AI video and content creation market has exploded in 2024-2025 with the availability of high-quality video generation models — Sora (OpenAI), Runway, and others enabling content creation workflows previously requiring significant production budgets. Rubbrband's film industry focus (trailers, theatrical marketing) provides a specific vertical depth that general AI video tools don't serve as well. The 2025 strategy focuses on growing with independent film distribution companies and studio marketing teams, adding AI soundtrack and audio capabilities to the visual content tools, and building workflow integrations with existing post-production infrastructure.