D-ID acquires Berlin-based video startup Simpleshow (techcrunch.com)

D-ID announced it has acquired Berlin-based B2B video platform Simpleshow, with financial terms undisclosed. Simpleshow’s product will operate under D-ID and the two platforms will eventually merge; the combined company will consolidate offices in Berlin, Tel Aviv and the U.S. and employ about 140 people. Simpleshow, founded in 2008 and having raised roughly $20M, brings a SaaS history (including a text-to-video tool launched in 2017) and more than 1,500 enterprise customers — from Adobe and Microsoft to Deutsche Bank — which D-ID says will accelerate revenue and push it closer to profitability. D-ID, which has raised about $60M, said it funded the acquisition. The deal is significant because it combines Simpleshow’s enterprise reach and production tooling with D-ID’s AI-powered interactive avatar tech, accelerating their push into scalable avatar-led training, marketing and sales video products. D-ID plans interactive training experiences where viewers can interrupt an avatar to ask questions or take quizzes — a use case that implies integration of real-time conversational interfaces, multimodal synthesis and LMS/workflow connectors for enterprise deployment. The merger sharpens D-ID’s position against avatar competitors like Synthesia, Soul Machines and major incumbents (Google, McKinsey), giving it faster go-to-market capabilities and a broader customer base to validate large-scale enterprise avatar adoption.