Butter
Backed byBCI Finance
About Butter
Butter is building the lego set for modern video editing, making video creation fast, playful, and modular. The company focuses on empowering creativity without locking users into templates or one-off AI outputs. Butter is building a better way to create motion graphics and video. This positions Butter as a modern, flexible solution for creators who want modular, template-free tools for video editing and motion design.
Company at a glance
Founders & Leadership
Investors
Location
About the Team
Team Distribution
- Leadership75%
- Design25%
Where the Team Studied
- 1.University of Waterloo
- 2.University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 3.University of British Columbia
- 4.Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana
Team Worked At
- Figma
- Meta
- Shopify
- AngelList
Team Composition
4 people- Engineering1
- Entrepreneurship1 senior1
- Leadership1 senior1
- Media and Communication1
Culture & values
Butter focuses on empowering creativity for users and does not lock them into templates or one-off AI outputs.
Butter uses a 'lego set' metaphor to describe its modular, building-block style of tools and collaboration.
Funding History
$21.8M
raised
London BNPL travel agency Butter raised a £15.8M funding round from BCI Finance (Blenheim Chalcot's credit arm) and private angel investors.
Life at Butter
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