Soopahgenius
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SoopahGenius builds Catapult, an AI-powered platform that helps livestreamers find and edit key moments in long video.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026SoopahGenius, Inc. is a technology startup with operations in Taipei and Seattle that develops Catapult, an AI-powered platform for navigating video content. Catapult is designed to process very large video files and help livestreamers and their communities locate key moments within a stream roughly ten times faster, combining high-speed scrubbing, audio and text analysis, computer vision and, for selected games, in-game event data.
Streams handled by the platform are stored in the cloud, removing the need to upload and download files locally and enabling collaborative editing of one or multiple streams. As of May 2021 Catapult was in beta, with additional product features under development for a V1 release intended to broaden the customer base; streamers could request beta access or join a waiting list.
Founding story
The company was founded by Mike Calcagno, an architect of Microsoft's Cortana who spent 17 years at Microsoft in Seattle before working as an artist and filmmaker in Japan and Korea and moving to Taiwan in 2018 to serve as a strategic adviser to Taiwan AI Labs; Constance Duong, a former Dropbox technical lead; and Susie Lee, a video artist and second-time founder. The founders shared an interest in AI/ML-supported visual storytelling and cited their own experience of storytellers receiving little help managing the large volumes of footage generated while a story takes shape, a problem the team found to be especially acute for livestreamers.
Business model
The company develops and operates Catapult, a cloud-based software platform offered to livestreamers, which at the time of reporting was available in beta with sign-up via request or a waiting list.
Traction
Catapult was in beta as of May 2021, with a waiting list and beta request process for streamers and V1 features under development ahead of a planned customer base expansion.
Latest developments
In May 2021 SoopahGenius closed a pre-seed round from the AppWorks Fund, intended to expand its engineering team and accelerate Catapult's development.
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Market position
The platform is positioned around its ability to process giant video files and surface key moments about ten times faster than manual review, combined with cloud storage that enables collaborative editing of streams.
Technology
Catapult applies an intelligent combination of high-speed video scrubbing, audio and text analysis, computer vision and, for select games, complete in-game event data to index and navigate very large video files. Streams are stored in the cloud, which removes local upload and download steps and supports collaborative editing across one or multiple streams.
Go-to-market
Livestreamers and their communities, including creators of game streams, along with visual storytellers dealing with large volumes of video footage.
Geography
Headquartered across Taipei, Taiwan and Seattle, United States, with investor ties to Taiwan-based AppWorks.
History
SoopahGenius joined AppWorks Accelerator batch #20 in March 2020. In May 2021 the company announced the close of a pre-seed round from Taiwan's AppWorks Fund, continuing the relationship into its next stage of development, with proceeds earmarked for growing the engineering team and accelerating development of Catapult.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 3
launches, deals, and filingsSoopahGenius announced the completion of its pre-seed round with Taiwan's AppWorks Fund, to be used to grow its engineering team and accelerate development of its Catapult platform.
Catapult, the company's AI-powered video navigation platform, was in beta with V1 features in development; streamers could request beta access or join a waiting list.
SoopahGenius joined AppWorks Accelerator batch #20 in March 2020.
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- SoopahGenius Closes Its Pre-seed Round, Aims to Take Video Storytelling to the Next Level - AppWorks δΉεε ιε¨appworks.tw Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Soopahgenius do?
- SoopahGenius builds Catapult, an AI-powered platform that helps livestreamers find and edit key moments in long video.
- Who are Soopahgenius's investors?
- Soopahgenius's investors include AppWorks Ventures.