📽️ 0 to $6M ARR in 20 months - Veed

+ create faceless videos in minutes

Author

Ayush Chaturvedi
August 23, 2025

Veed was one of the fastest-growing bootstrapped companies.

In 2020, they got rejected from YC, 20 months later they bootstrapped Veed to $6M ARR.. and in 2022, they raised $35M from Sequoia and became the hypergrowth startup we know them as today.

Before we dive in, quick word from Syllaby -

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What is Veed?

Veed IO is an online video editor. You can use it to add photos, subtitles, video filters, and other effects to your videos.

Sabba and Tim built Veed to make video editing fast, simple, and easy for even newbies. Most old-school video editing software was slow and clunky and desktop-based.

They challenged the status quo, and in a way, today they’re like the Canva of video editing.

Veed Growth Strategies

In the initial days, Veed primarily grew via organic strategies -

  • Quora and Reddit answers

  • SEO content on their blog

  • YouTube SEO

  • Side Project Marketing

Last week, I recorded a 20 minute break down of Veed’s SEO strategy for my community members.

How Veed is getting 300K+ daily visits from organic search + how it gets 200+ high quality backlinks a month

Read the full story of the origin and first 3 years of Veed -

Rock Bottom To Rocket Ship🚀 | How Veed Grew To $5M+ ARR

Listen Up! IH – Episode 24 “Keep pushing, and make something people search for” That’s Sabba Keynejad’s message to Indie Hackers. Sabba [https://twitter.com/sab8a] is the Co-founder of Veed.io [http://veed.io/] – a browser-based video editing tool. Sabba and his co-founder Tim grew the company from

www.listenupih.com/sabba-keynejad-veed

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That’s it for this week.

See you on Wednesday

Thanks

Ayush 🙏

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