Memories.ai raises $8M seed extension for visual memory AI
What's the deal? Memories.aiDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a San Francisco startup founded by former Meta engineers Shawn Shen and Enmin "Ben" Zhou, has raised an $8 million seed extension led by Susa Ventures.
Samsung Next, Seedcamp, Fusion FundDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, Crane Venture PartnersDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, and Creator VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → also joined, bringing total seed funding to $16 million.
The company builds what it calls a Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) — infrastructure that lets AI retain and recall visual data across millions of hours of footage.
The idea: give machines episodic memory, so they can not just see, but remember seeing.
Why now? Current AI can tag objects and describe video, but it struggles to sift through months of footage to answer a query like "show me every white van near the loading dock after 21:00."
Shen and Zhou spotted the gap working on Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses at Reality Labs, where visual AI kept stumbling on long-term context.
Traction has been steep. The startup indexed 1 million hours of video by July 2025, then claimed more than 10 million hours two months later.
Early customers cluster in two camps: physical security firms querying CCTV archives, and marketing teams tracking brand mentions across creator video.
What could go wrong? The company is chasing vast surface area with a team of 11 to 50 people, per LinkedIn.
It hasn't disclosed revenue or customer numbers, leaving its early momentum hard to verify.
Pushing visual memory onto millions of cameras also raises obvious privacy questions that the firm will need to answer.
The signal: The return of nearly the entire original syndicate — Susa Ventures, Samsung Next, Seedcamp, Fusion Fund, and Crane Venture Partners — for an early-stage extension suggests conviction that persistent visual memory is a missing infrastructure layer rather than a feature. With Samsung Next on the cap table, the bet aligns neatly with the wearables and on-device ambitions the company is now chasing.
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