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Twelve Labs
Consumer Services · San Francisco, United States · Founded 2021
Developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world MoreLess
Twelve Labs is a startup that operates in the artificial intelligence (AI) and video understanding sector. The company has developed a comprehensive AI system that extracts key features from videos, such as action, objects, text on screen, speech, and people. This information is then transformed into vector representations, which enable fast and scalable semantic search. In simpler terms, Twelve Labs' technology can understand and categorize the content of a video, making it easier and quicker to search for specific elements within a large volume of video data.
The company's primary clients are developers and product managers who use Twelve Labs' technology to enhance their products and services. For example, an education technology company might use Twelve Labs' AI to enable students to search lesson content in new ways, enhancing their learning and retention.
Twelve Labs operates in the growing market of AI and video understanding. The company's business model is based on providing an end-to-end infrastructure that makes all videos searchable. This is done through an API (Application Programming Interface), which is a set of rules that allows different software applications to communicate with each other. Essentially, clients can integrate Twelve Labs' technology into their own systems with just a few API calls.
The company generates revenue by charging clients for using its technology. The effectiveness and speed of Twelve Labs' platform, as well as its ability to outperform even the strongest open-source and commercial models, make it a valuable tool for businesses in various sectors.
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, Video Understanding, Semantic Search, Vector Representations, Developers, Product Managers, End-to-End Infrastructure, API, Video Retrieval, Technology Integration.
Company overview
Twelve Labs company information
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Employees
- 190
- Open positions
- 19
- Dealroom signal
- 94.3
Valuation & funding
Twelve Labs funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES BOther financing | Jul 2026 | $100M | $400M | Amazon · Korea Investment Partners · Quadrille Capital · Naver Ventures | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Oct 2025 | $3M | $250M | Undisclosed | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Jul 2025 | $0 | — | Naver Ventures | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Dec 2024 | $30M | $250M | SK Telecom · Databricks Ventures · In-Q-Tel · Snowflake Ventures | ↗ |
| SERIES AOther financing | Jun 2024 | $50M | $200M | Korea Investment Partners · NVentures · Index Ventures · WndrCo | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Oct 2023 | NVentures · Intel Corporation · Samsung Next | ↗ | ||
| SEEDOther financing | Dec 2022 | WndrCo · Index Ventures · Radical Ventures · Lukas Biewald | ↗ | ||
| SEEDOther financing | Mar 2022 | Fei-Fei Li · Techstars · Jack Conte · Oren Etzioni | ↗ | ||
| SEEDOther financing | Jan 2021 | Techstars | — |
Financials
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| Year | Revenue | Growth | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $3M | 0% | 190 |
| 2025 | $3M | 0% | 149 |
| 2024 | $3M | 0% | 80 |
| 2023 | $3M | +167.9% | 43 |
| 2022 | $1.1M | — | 19 |
Growth signals
Twelve Labs website traffic
Latest recorded traffic for Twelve Labs is 180K monthly website visits, up 12.5% over the last three months. Twelve Labs's team grew 27.5% over the past year.
Hiring
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