For most of the internet's history, media has been static by default. Content is created once, edited once, and distributed the same way to everyone, regardless of who is interacting with it or where it appears. Even as software became dynamic and systems became intelligent, media itself stayed fixed. The industry optimized for how content is produced and distributed, but the media remained locked to a single version after creation, unable to respond to different people, contexts, or uses.
Darwin is built on the idea that this limitation is structural, not creative. Media should be able to change after it exists. The same underlying content should naturally adapt to different viewers, formats, and moments, whether that means how it is presented, how it is experienced, or how it carries meaning. Treating adaptation as a first-class property allows media to function across surfaces without being remade each time, enabling value to be embedded directly inside content rather than around it.
This shift is inevitable. As media moves across feeds, platforms, interfaces, and identities, static content becomes the bottleneck. A single version cannot serve every context, and manual workflows cannot keep up with scale. Media needs to behave more like a system than a file, something that responds as people interact with it. Darwin exists to build the infrastructure for that future, where media is dynamic by default and capable of evolving in step with the people it serves.
Sanjit Juneja
Founder & CEO
We're grateful to be backed by investors like a16z speedrun and top angels in the video AI space who share our long-term vision on adaptive media.