Noctal Inc.
Real Sounds, Synced in Seconds. 200,000+ human-recorded SFX matched to picture. Try Lana free.
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About Noctal Inc.
How much funding has Noctal Inc. raised?
Noctal Inc. has raised $1.8M in total funding. The most recent round was Seed.
Where is Noctal Inc. headquartered?
Noctal Inc. is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.
What does Noctal Inc. do?
Real Sounds, Synced in Seconds. 200,000+ human-recorded SFX matched to picture. Try Lana free.
What problem does Noctal Inc. solve?
Manual sound design and foley work for film/video is slow -- about an hour of work to sound-design a scene.
What's Noctal Inc.'s solution?
Noctal's Lana analyzes a video frame by frame, automatically identifies sound events (footsteps, doors, impacts, ambience), and places matching sounds from its library onto the timeline, either via natural-language 'story mode' or precise manual 'sound mode', including a Premiere Pro plugin.
What makes Noctal Inc. different?
Claims to be 180x faster than manual work (an hour of work done in 20 seconds), backed by a library of 200,000+ human-recorded (not synthetic) sound effects with perpetual licensing.
What makes Noctal Inc. notable?
Founded and led by Isaiah Chavous (Forbes 30 Under 30), Noctal raised a $1.8M seed round in March 2025 to build an AI-driven sound-effects editing platform for creatives.
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