Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Nauk Nauk raised $20 million and exited beta for its AI app that turns toy photos into animated videos.

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<a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/nauk-nauk-ai-video-toy-app-funding"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260617/i15.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260617/p15#a260617p15" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ina Fried / <a href="https://www.axios.com/">Axios</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/06/17/nauk-nauk-ai-video-toy-app-funding">Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Nauk Nauk has raised $20 million to expand its AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, co-founder Daniel Liu tells Axios.</p>