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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.

Valuation $100–500M
Revenue $1–10M
Headcount 100–500
Total funding $100–500M
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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
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Valuation & funding

Twelve Labs funding history

Company financing events and reported valuations.

Deal typeDateAmountValuationInvestorsSource
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
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Financials

Revenue and workforce over time

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YearRevenueGrowthEmployees
2026 $3M 0% 190
2025 $3M 0% 149
2024 $3M 0% 80
2023 $3M +167.9% 43
2022 $1.1M 19
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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.

Latest monthly visits180K 3-month web change+12.5% 1-year team growth+27.5%
Monthly website visits66 observations · Jan 2021–Jul 2026
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Comparisons

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Talent graph

Twelve Labs's talent

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Team profiled 16 named & role-tagged
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Key operators 7 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
Potential founders Hidden — book a demo likely future founders
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Investors

24 investors on Twelve Labs's cap table

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Seed 10 investors entered at this stage
Techstars
Index Ventures
Fei-Fei Li
Jack Conte
Oren Etzioni
Radical Ventures
alex wang
WndrCo
Lukas Biewald
Spring Ventures
Series A 14 investors entered at this stage
NVentures
Intel Corporation
Samsung Next
NEA
Korea Investment Partners
SK Telecom
Databricks Ventures
In-Q-Tel
Snowflake Ventures
HubSpot Ventures
Naver Ventures
Amazon
Quadrille Capital
Red Bull Ventures

Global footprint

Where Twelve Labs has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
5 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States64.9%
🇰🇷 South Korea31.8%
🇨🇦 Canada2%
🇮🇳 India0.7%
🇵🇭 Philippines0.7%
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In the news

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Twelve Labs

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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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