Video Startups

Mux provides video infrastructure for developers, including tools to ingest, encode, and stream adaptive video and to measure viewer engagement and playback quality. Its offerings include a web-based video player built as a web component with features like adaptive streaming, preview thumbnails, and built-in analytics.

14 investors

Loom offered cloud storage for photos and videos. The company was acquired by Dropbox.

13 investors

Tavus develops human-like AI agents called PALs that can see, hear, act, and understand in real-time, offering bespoke, fully-managed deployments for various enterprise workflows.

12 investors

Twitch operates a live video streaming platform focused on gaming, where users broadcast, watch, and chat about video games. It serves casual gamers, professional players, tournaments, leagues, game developers, and gaming media organizations.

12 investors

VideoGen builds an AI-powered video creation platform that applies industrial automation to video production, making video creation accessible to a broader audience.

12 investors

Jumpcut provides online education and tools to help aspiring content creators grow their audiences and monetize their content. It operates in the creator economy, serving social media and video creators.

8 investors

Bitmovin develops video infrastructure tools for OTT online video providers, including adaptive streaming HTML5 players and cloud-based video encoding. It serves enterprise video providers with developer-focused streaming and encoding products.

7 investors

OnDeck develops video understanding technology for enterprise customers, leveraging vision language models grounded in real data to enhance reliability beyond standard off-the-shelf approaches.

7 investors

Cerrion develops AI solutions for the manufacturing industry to improve efficiency, safety, and resilience in production operations.

6 investors

Magic Hour is an AI-powered video creation platform that enables users to generate videos from ideas without requiring extensive production expertise. The platform serves content creators, small business owners, and other individuals looking to produce video content efficiently.

6 investors

Demodesk builds AI agents that automate post-call sales work including CRM updates, deal rescue, and coaching for revenue teams. The platform serves sales organizations across Europe, from SMBs to enterprises, and is built with GDPR compliance and EU data residency.

5 investors

Tenyks develops a Visual Intelligence Platform that processes and extracts actionable insights from large collections of visual data and assets. The platform serves organizations seeking to convert visual data into strategic assets for decision-making and competitive advantage.

5 investors

Zencoder is a cloud-based video and audio encoding suite that converts live and on-demand video for customers without requiring them to manage their own encoding hardware or software. It is a product from Brightcove, a provider of cloud content services.

5 investors

ClearMix operates a platform that pairs professional video producers with clients to create marketing and sales videos remotely, achieving faster turnaround and lower costs than traditional production methods.

4 investors

Cocreate is a software tool for video post-production professionals that automates editorial workflows by reading slates, syncing audio, detecting multicams, building stringouts, and generating Premiere or Avid projects. It serves editors, DITs, post supervisors, and production managers in film and television production.

4 investors

Craze is an AI video editor that transforms creative direction into finished videos within minutes by automating planning and editing tasks for video content creators.

4 investors

Eternal is a Los Angeles NFT marketplace for trading Twitch streamer clips, a Y Combinator W20 company now listed as acquired.

4 investors

Fam is a group video calling social network for talking with friends and meeting new people. The company was part of Y Combinator's Summer 2017 batch under the name FriendSpot.

4 investors

Koyal develops an AI platform that generates personalized video content from scripts or audio, serving music labels, podcasters, and production companies. The platform uses agentic AI to handle multilingual workflows, lip-sync synchronization, and consistent character rendering across video sequences.

4 investors

Linum builds generative video models for animation that provide creative controls like consistent characters, camera movement, and motion control. The company aims to make animation more accessible to creators by baking these primitives into model training rather than bolting them on through fine-tuning.

4 investors

Peer5 operates a peer-to-peer content delivery network (CDN) for live and on-demand video streaming, using WebRTC and HTML5 to offload bandwidth to a peer network. It serves video publishers and content providers looking to scale high-quality HD and 4K streaming without adding server capacity.

4 investors

Revl is an experience technology company that produces AI-edited video souvenirs and the Revl Arc smart action camera. It serves consumers capturing action footage, offering automated video editing as a service.

4 investors

Rubbrband is a video production agency that creates advertisements for emerging brands, leveraging Hollywood-level production expertise.

4 investors

Sieve creates high-quality multimodal datasets and training environments for frontier AI labs developing generative media, robotics, and agentic systems. The company combines exabyte-scale infrastructure with novel data collection and processing techniques to serve AI research teams and enterprise customers.

4 investors