Coconut Creek Native’s AI Startup Raises $3 Million To Transform Online Learning

by Kevin Deutsch July 2, 2026

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Arjun Talati {Courtesy}

The artificial intelligence startup Knowlify, co-founded by a Coconut Creek native while he was still a teenager, recently raised $3 million to expand its business, the company said.

Arjun Talati co-founded Knowlify in 2025 at age 19 and recently helped raise the funding round at age 20. Talati attended Deerfield Beach High School before going on to the University of Florida, where he took a leave of absence to build the startup full-time alongside his co-founders, a group of best friends from college.

Knowlify’s service turns any kind of document into professional animated explainer videos within minutes.

The San Francisco-based startup announced that the $3 million round was led by Formosa Capital, with participation from Y Combinator, 468 Capital, and angel investors. Knowlify said the new funding will be used to hire across engineering and go-to-market roles, train and improve the company’s AI models, and expand the product to serve more customers.

“We started Knowlify because we believe everyone deserves to learn from content that’s actually clear and engaging,” Talati told Coconut Creek Talk. “This funding lets us move faster, build better technology, and bring high-quality explainer videos to more people and organizations than ever before.”

Knowlify’s AI-explainer, video-making software is designed to turn any document into a professional animated explainer video without requiring designers, animators, or video editors, according to the company.

The company said its software takes dense training material, product documents, and lesson content and transforms them into animated videos intended to be engaging and easier to understand. And it does the job at a fraction of the traditional cost and timeline, according to Talati.

The startup said it has generated more than 500,000 videos that have surpassed five million views. Its customers range from the University of Florida to Fortune 500 companies, according to Knowlify.

The idea for the company grew out of Talati and his co-founders’ own struggles to grasp complex topics through traditional teaching methods, he said. They concluded that the problem was often not the concepts themselves, but the way the information was being delivered.

Knowlify is backed by Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley startup accelerator behind companies including Airbnb, Stripe, and DoorDash. Knowlify is available as both a self-serve platform and a fully managed service. More information is available at knowlify.com.

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Kevin Deutsch is an award-winning journalist and author of two nonfiction books. He covers general assignment news and Jewish community issues for Talk Media. He has also worked as a staff writer at The Miami Times, the Rio Grande SUN, the New York Daily News, Newsday, The Miami Herald, The Palm Beach Post, The Riverdale Press, and Bronx Justice News.