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Peter Thiel's Founders Fund is a venture capital firm. Its partners have founded and funded companies including PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX, Anduril, Flexport, Airbnb and Stripe.
Eric Nam

Eric Nam

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Eric Nam
Eric Nam
Eric Nam
Eric Nam
K-Pop Artist.
Roman Khan

Roman Khan

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Roman Khan
Roman Khan
Roman Khan
Roman Khan
Roman Khan
President, Founder at Peak21, CMO at Raycon, CMO at Know Beauty, CMO, Co-founder at Linjer, CMO at Nutrition Kitchen.
Ron Shah

Ron Shah

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Ron Shah
Ron Shah
Ron Shah
CEO, Co-founder at Obvi, Co-host at Chew On This, Managing Partner at Gaas for SaaS.

Zach F.

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Alexandra Botez

Alexandra Botez

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Alexandra Botez
Alexandra Botez
Alexandra Botez
Alexandra Botez
Alexandra Botez
Alexandra Botez
Chess & Poker Player.
Previously: YC W18, Stanford.
Nick Shackelford

Nick Shackelford

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Nick Shackelford
Nick Shackelford
Nick Shackelford
Nick Shackelford
CRO, Co-founder at Structured, Partner at BREZ, CRO, Co-founder at Konstant Kreative, CRO, Co-founder at GeekOut Events.
Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee

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Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee
CEO, Co-founder at immi.
Previously: Pear VC, Berkeley.
Justin Mares

Justin Mares

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Justin Mares
Justin Mares
Justin Mares
Justin Mares
CEO, Co-founder at TrueMed.
Previously: CEO, Founder at Kettle & Fire, CEO, Co-founder at Surely Wines, CEO, Co-founder at Perfect Keto.
Jimmy Kim

Jimmy Kim

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Jimmy Kim
CIO, Founder at Sendlane.

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Mudwtr
Obvi
Backbone
Hiya
Jones Road
ridge ($100M+ revenue)
ridge ($100M+ revenue)
407K followers
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Mudwtr
Obvi
Backbone
Hiya
Jones Road
Problem

Coming up with 100 unique, 30-second scripts is painful.

Manually matching 3-second clips (from your 10,000-video library) for every shot of your 100 scripts is even more painful.

Creating 3 permutations of each of the 100 ads (for A/B testing) makes the pain even worse.

Now imagine voiceovers, captions, & uploading all 300 ads to Meta & TikTok on top of this. Also imagine you're an agency doing this for 10 brands (now we're at 3K ads).

Products for scriptwriting, video editing, creative storage, UGC, creative analytics, & competitor ad spying exist, but they're not built for making ads (or just built badly).

Capcut
Capcut
Video editing
$9.99/month
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Premiere
Video editing
$54.99/month
ChatGPT
ChatGPT
Scriptwriting
$20/month
Foreplay
Foreplay
Ad spying
$99/month
AdSpy
AdSpy
Ad spying
$149/month
Recharm
Recharm
Creative storage
$500-$3K/month
Motion
Motion
Creative analytics
$1K-$10K+/month
Billo
Billo
UGC
$99/video
Air
Air
Creative storage
$600-$5K+/month
+10 other tools
Solution

Icon solves this with the first AI Admaker. Think ChatGPT + CapCut, but for making winning ads with AI in minutes.

Icon starts by looking at your video library & tagging scenes (e.g. "sofa," "unboxing"). These scenes become reusable clips used as lego blocks for making ads.

From there, just enter ideas into AdGPT (ChatGPT for ads) to generate ads with perfectly matching clips for every scene.

AdGPT gets your ads 80-99% complete. Make edits with AdCut (CapCut for ads) or prompt AdGPT until you're happy.

3-person creative teams make 30 ads per month. With Icon, they make 300 (& get more winners).

We also replace $2K-$30K in monthly costs: scriptwriting (ChatGPT), video editing (CapCut, Premiere), creative storage (Frame.io, Air, Recharm), UGC (Arcads, MakeUGC, Billo), creative analytics (Motion), competitor ad spying (Foreplay), & more.

Solution

How it works

  • 1. Turn your videos into legos
    1. Turn your videos into legos
    Icon looks at your video library & tags scenes (e.g. "unboxing"). These scenes become reusable clips used as lego blocks for making ads.
  • 2. Create ads with AdGPT
    2. Create ads with AdGPT
    Use AdGPT to create ads that are 80-99% complete with perfectly matching clips for every scene.
  • 3. Edit ads with AdCut
    3. Edit ads with AdCut
    Use AdCut to edit your 80-99% complete AdGPT ads until you're happy.
  • 4. Replace Motion & Foreplay
    4. Replace Motion & Foreplay
    Save $2K-$30K/month with free creative analytics, free competitor ad spying, & more.
    You can also replace Frame.io, Air, & Recharm with our 0% markup creative storage, but feel free to do this later (we integrate with them).

AdGPT Workflows

  • Bring a script
    Bring a script
    Save time by finding matching videos for your script with Icon.
  • Bring a creative brief
    Bring a creative brief
    Save time by finding matching videos for your brief with Icon.
  • B-roll cutting
    B-roll cutting
    Save time by cutting in B-roll on your talking head videos with Icon.
  • Long form to ad
    Long form to ad
    Save time by turning reviews & interviews into ads with Icon.
  • Clone script from ad
    Clone script from ad
    Save time by cloning winning ad scripts from top brands with Icon.
  • Ad from voiceover
    Ad from voiceover
    Save time by creating an ad from a voiceover with Icon.

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What they're saying

Obvi
"We went from spending hours making each ad to building entire campaigns in minutes. Icon helps us shape perfect creatives at incredible speed."
Ron Shah

Ron Shah

CEO, Obvi
$100M+ revenue
Raycon
"Going from script to finished ads was overly complex. Icon streamlined the process from scriptwriting to ad creation with a few clicks."
Ray Lee

Ray Lee

CEO, Raycon
$100M+ revenue
222 Creative
"Our creative team was drowning in repetitive work. Icon transformed our workflow - now we can focus on strategy while they handle the rest."
Marco Staal

Marco Staal

CEO, 222 Creative
100+ clients with $10B+ revenue

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UGC videos
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Ad Manager upload
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Text or image-to-video
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Made for ads
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0% markup on usage
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24/7 support
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Agency Directory

GR0

GR0

Monthly ads created
1000
Monthly adspend
$10M+
Avenue Z

Avenue Z

Monthly ads created
1000
Monthly adspend
$10M+

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Kennan Davison

Kennan Davison

CEO, Founder
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Previously: Skio (CEO 2021-2024, $10M+ ARR in 3 years, profitable), Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20 (solo founder), Dropout.
Hi, I'm Kennan!
Growing up, I loved competitive gaming and eventually reached Top 200 North America in LoL (out of 100M+ players).
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Kennan Davison

Kennan Davison

CEO, Founder
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Kennan Davison
Previously: Skio (CEO 2021-2024, $10M+ ARR in 3 years, profitable), Pinterest, Hulu, W+K (ad agency), Top 200 NA LoL, YC S20 (solo founder), Dropout.

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