Emovid, the platform built to enable unified and asynchronous video, text, and audio communication for businesses, announced the close of its seed funding round, bringing total funding to date to nearly $7 million. This investment marks a major milestone in the company's mission to transform business communication by delivering authentic, face-to-face interactions asynchronously.

Emovid was developed in part as a response to widespread frustrations with standard video conferencing and inefficient and long e-mails. Research shows that unfruitful meetings cost the U.S. business world as much as $224 billion per year, and the average knowledge worker still spends 2 to 3 hours a day in their e-mail. At the same time, many businesses are contending with a growing number of deepfaked or AI-generated video and text communications from malicious sources.