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Reface funding, valuation and investors

AI face-swap video app for viral content and entertainment.

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Funding, valuation & investors

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Latest funding

Seed

$5.5M · 2020

Latest known valuation

Not publicly disclosed

Total disclosed equity funding

$5.5M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

seed · Kyiv, Ukraine

Investors in latest funding

Lead: Andreessen Horowitz

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-07-25

Overview

Reface (formerly Doublicat) is a Ukrainian AI app that lets users swap their faces into GIFs, videos, and images using deep learning. The app went viral with 70M+ downloads, offering entertaining face-swap content for social media sharing. Reface raised a $5.5M seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz in 2020, with Connie Chan leading the deal. Celebrity angel investors included Scooter Braun and Ilkka Paananen (Supercell CEO). Based in Kyiv, the company gained global traction despite geopolitical challenges. Reface operates in the consumer AI entertainment space, competing with face-swap and generative media apps. Deepfake regulation and platform policy changes remain industry risks.

Why Reface is interesting

70M+ downloads from Ukraine; Connie Chan led a16z seed with celebrity angels (Scooter Braun, Supercell CEO) before deepfake regulation tightened.

Product & use cases

Reface is a mobile app using AI to swap users' faces into GIFs, music videos, and popular media content for social sharing and entertainment.

  • Creating viral face-swap videos for social media
  • Personalized GIF and meme content generation
  • Entertainment and celebrity content remixing

Key facts

  • 70M+ downloads globally
  • Seed (2020): $5.5M led by a16z; Connie Chan led (TechCrunch)
  • Celebrity angels: Scooter Braun, Ilkka Paananen (Supercell CEO)
  • Ukrainian AI startup based in Kyiv

Funding history (newest first)

Seed

2020 $5.5M

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/16/reface-raises-5-5m-for-its-viral-face-swap-app/

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Andreessen Horowitz

Competitive landscape

Edge: Early viral growth (70M+ downloads) with polished UX. Ukrainian AI talent and lean operations enabled global scale from Kyiv.

Consumer AI entertainment apps face platform risk as TikTok and Instagram add native face effects. Reface's 70M+ downloads prove demand but retention and monetization are challenging. Deepfake regulation increasingly constrains face-swap technology globally.

  • FaceApp direct

    Face editing app with aging and swap features; earlier viral hit.

  • Wombo adjacent

    AI lip-sync and animation app; similar viral consumer AI entertainment.

  • TikTok effects incumbent

    Platform-native face filters reduce need for standalone apps.

Notable stories

  • Reface went viral during COVID lockdowns as users created face-swap content for social sharing, reaching 70M+ downloads from a Kyiv-based team (TechCrunch, 2020).
  • Connie Chan led a16z's seed investment, with celebrity angels Scooter Braun and Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen participating.

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Consumer Media & Entertainment

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FAQs about Reface

Practical answers founders, operators, and investors typically search for.

Reface is an AI app that swaps your face into GIFs, videos, and images for social media entertainment.
Andreessen Horowitz led the $5.5M seed round in 2020. Connie Chan led the deal. See /fund/andreessen-horowitz.
Reface reported 70M+ downloads as of its 2020 funding announcement.
Kyiv, Ukraine. Founded in 2019.
Both offer AI face editing. Reface focuses on swapping into existing video/GIF content; FaceApp offers broader face transformations.
$5.5M seed round in November 2020 led by a16z.
Yes. Reface continues as a consumer AI entertainment app.
Scooter Braun and Ilkka Paananen (Supercell CEO) participated in the seed round.
Reface uses face-swap AI for entertainment. It operates in the broader deepfake/face-swap category subject to increasing regulation.
November 2020. $5.5M seed led by Andreessen Horowitz.
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