About Hedra
Hedra is a frontier AI lab and generative media platform built around Character-3, its proprietary omnimodal foundation model that integrates text, image, and audio to create expressive, controllable character performance videos. The platform serves prosumer and enterprise users — including content creators and marketers — enabling them to generate speaking characters, AI video, audio, and images in a unified studio. Hedra's goal is to power a new era of visual-first storytelling at scale.
Company details
Funding
Total raised
$44M
Last stage
Series A
Investors
Founders
Michael Lingelbach
Former PhD student at Stanford Vision & Learning Lab; theatre actor before academia. Led Hedra from founding through its Series A. Background in AI research with publications at CoRL, ICRA, and ICML.
LinkedIn
Alexander Bergman
PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Specializes in neural scene representations. Previously a Research Scientist intern at Meta (AR/VR) and interned at Google, Bloomberg, Uber, and Palo Alto Networks.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.