Flick, an AI filmmaking startup co-founded by Ray Wang and Zoey Zhang, has secured $6 million in seed funding. The round is backed by prominent investors including True Ventures, GV, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, and various angel investors. This financial support marks a significant milestone for the company, which entered Y Combinator's Fall 2025 batch and aims to democratize access to high-quality film production through generative artificial intelligence. The origins of Flick lie in Zhang's decade-long struggle with the rigid hierarchies and gatekeeping of the traditional film industry. Without industry connections or funding, she found it nearly impossible to launch her career. Her breakthrough came when she created an animated short film using a suite of AI tools, a project that won the Best Visual award at MIT's 2025 AI Film Hack. Recognizing the potential to scale this success, she partnered with her husband, Wang, a former Instagram engineer, to build a dedicated platform. Their collaboration combined Zhang's creative vision and filmmaking expertise with Wang's engineering background, a unique synergy that strongly appealed to investors like True Ventures partner Mike Montano. Flick's platform allows users to create short films through chat-based prompting and various underlying AI models, including Google's Nano Banana and Veo 3, ByteDance's Seedance, and Midjourney. The service operates on a subscription model ranging from $5 to $600 per month, depending on the user's credit needs. The interface is designed to resemble a storyboard, enabling creators to rearrange film frames, add notes, and edit scenes within a single workspace. A core differentiator of Flick is its emphasis on maintaining character consistency across generated frames, a common challenge in current AI video tools. Wang stated that the platform was engineered to speak the language of filmmakers, ensuring that the story remains the focus rather than the technical complexities of the AI tools. While the broader film industry has seen a surge of AI startups, Flick's loftier goal is to remove barriers such as the cost of camera equipment, hiring actors, or renting sets. This approach theoretically lowers the threshold for entry, allowing more people to produce content. Addressing concerns that AI might displace jobs in Hollywood, Wang argued that the technology will instead create new opportunities by enabling a larger volume of creators to enter the field. The five-person company is currently expanding its relationships with Hollywood professionals and is considering relocating its headquarters from the Bay Area to Los Angeles to better integrate with the entertainment ecosystem. By positioning itself as a fusion of design and coding tools tailored for narrative creation, Flick aims to become a primary solution for the next generation of independent filmmakers.