Videodb
Founded 2024 Β· 21 employees on LinkedIn Β· 1 known investors
VideoDB builds infrastructure for processing video as real-time data streams, enabling AI agents and applications to search, program, and intelligently extract meaning from visual and audio content.
Also known as video-db Β· VideoDB
Investors Β· 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026VideoDB provides a single backend for video and audio aimed at AI applications and agents. The platform is organised around six primitives β ingest, index, remember, retrieve, edit and stream β and handles files, live streams, RTSP/ONVIF/RTMP camera feeds, meetings and screen recordings through one ingestion path. Content is indexed with time-aligned understanding of speech, scenes, people, objects, actions and events; those indexes accumulate into a queryable memory that applications search in natural language, receiving playable clips rather than only metadata. Outputs can be composed programmatically into new clips with captions, voice and overlays, delivered as HLS stream URLs, or wired to webhooks, WebSockets and agent actions for event-driven alerting.
The company positions the product against what it calls the "playback stack" β object storage, ffmpeg transcoding, CDN delivery, plus bolted-on ASR, OCR, vision-language models, embeddings, vector databases and custom orchestration β arguing that a purpose-built system consolidates these into one path where indexes live with the media. The platform supports bring-your-own-model indexing, is offered fully managed on VideoDB Cloud with multi-region availability across the US, EU and India, or deployed into a customer's AWS, GCP or Azure VPC (and on-premises on request) with a single-tenant control plane, private link and no data egress; edge GPU and on-prem extensions plug into either tier. Marketed attributes include SOC 2 Type II, sovereign-ready deployment and usage-based pricing.
Developer surface includes Python and Node.js/TypeScript SDKs, an MCP server and LLM context files for AI IDEs, agent "skills", n8n nodes and a Zapier integration, plus open-source projects such as the Director agent framework, call.md, bloom, pair-programmer, agentic-streams, PromptClip and a cookbook of examples spanning video RAG and search, live intelligence, content generation, programmatic editing and content moderation.
Founding story
The founding team consists of engineers with backgrounds spanning AI, video systems and cloud infrastructure who concluded from early work with large language models that agents would need a real-time perception layer, while existing video tooling was designed for humans watching screens rather than software interpreting continuous streams. Ashutosh (Ashu) Trivedi is named as founder/CEO, with a background in machine learning and distributed computing.
Business model
VideoDB sells infrastructure to developers and enterprises as an API/SDK-based platform, offered either fully managed on VideoDB Cloud or deployed inside the customer's own cloud account or on-premises using the same SDK. It also runs partner motions: industry partners (sovereign clouds, datacenters and infrastructure providers) who host or white-label the platform, and channel partners (systems integrators, ISVs and solution providers) who embed or co-sell it, alongside a four-week proof-of-concept process that converts into annual contracts with volume tiers, SLAs and customer-managed keys.
Usage-based pricing on the managed tier, charging for what customers index and stream; enterprise deployments are structured as annual contracts with volume tiers and SLAs following a scoped pilot.
Traction
The company reports about 10 TB uploaded per month across cloud, VPC and edge, more than 40,000 custom indexes built per month, and more than 25,000 searches per month. Cited deployments include a healthcare customer running 1,000+ camera feeds with custom computer-vision models and sub-second alerts, and a streaming customer applying custom search and editing to a 2,500-hour premium catalog. Open-source repositories include Director (about 1.4-1.5k GitHub stars), call.md (about 1,134 stars), bloom (231), pair-programmer (129), skills (118) and the Python SDK (97).
Latest developments
RTSP Connect is described as generally available. In November 2025 VideoDB acquired Devzery, a Chennai-based AI-driven API regression testing startup founded in 2021 by Hemnaa Subburaj and Nitish Varma, for an undisclosed amount; Devzery had raised $125,000 from Upekkha and counted Cimpress, Shopflo and Zeda.io among its users. The company has also published a live camera intelligence offering targeting healthcare, security, defense and operations, and a platform overview describing SOC 2 Type II and sovereign-ready deployment.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
VideoDB positions itself as a new backend layer for AI-native video β a data-infrastructure layer sitting between storage and reasoning β rather than a model wrapper or a traditional playback and delivery stack. It claims production deployments across healthcare, safety, media, AI agents and enterprise workflows, and pitches cost consolidation of ten-plus vendors into one bill.
The company differentiates on being real-time and streaming-first (live streams, RTSP, desktop capture, not only files), returning playable video evidence from retrieval instead of metadata alone, programmable indexes-as-code that evolve over time, model-agnostic bring-your-own-model indexing, a single SDK and API covering both realtime and file workloads, and portability between a managed cloud and customer-controlled VPC, on-prem or edge deployments without code changes.
Technology
The system unifies storage, encoding, indexing, retrieval, editing and streaming in one media processing engine. Storage is platform-managed, content-addressed and deduplicated; edits produce chunk-level HLS slices without re-encoding; indexes live alongside the media as a single source of truth and can be composed, filtered and scoped at query time, with queries routed through tenant- or workload-scoped indexes. The company cites roughly 120 ms p95 retrieval latency across petabyte archives versus about 12 s p95 for a stitched vector-DB/Postgres/metadata approach. Customers can wrap their own perception or computer-vision models as indexes and run them on every frame of live feeds, with sub-second alerting delivered over webhooks and WebSockets. Deployment options span managed cloud, customer VPC, on-premises and edge GPU.
Go-to-market
Bottom-up developer adoption via open-source SDKs, agent skills, notebooks, a cookbook and GitHub projects (pip install videodb, npx skills add video-db/skills), combined with direct enterprise sales through "talk to us" solution calls, architecture reviews and a four-week POC that moves from ten cameras in week one to 100+ feeds and an annual contract by week four. This is complemented by a partner program covering agentic web companies, solution providers, systems integrators and sovereign/infrastructure cloud providers, and by community channels including Discord, X, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Developers and engineering teams building video-heavy AI products, including media and OTT teams, agentic AI startups, ML product teams, and monitoring and perception companies in healthcare, security, defense, home security, industrial operations and education. Workloads cited include ICU bedside monitoring, drone and dashcam feeds, fleet management and NVR/security platforms, robotics perception, model-training data curation, and frontier-lab world-model pipelines.
Geography
Headquartered in San Francisco with the team building from India, operating as a remote organisation; managed cloud is offered with multi-region availability across the US, EU and India. The November 2025 acquisition of Chennai-based Devzery adds an India presence and is intended to accelerate that team's expansion into the US market.
History
VideoDB was launched in 2023; the team states it has worked together for roughly five years on video infrastructure for AI. In November 2025 the company announced its acquisition of Chennai-based API testing startup Devzery, its first disclosed acquisition, with Devzery's founders joining VideoDB and the Devzery product line remaining operational.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 2
launches, deals, and filingsVideoDB acquired Devzery, a Chennai-based developer tooling startup offering AI-driven, codeless API regression testing that plugs into CI/CD pipelines. Deal value was not disclosed. Devzery, founded in 2021 by Hemnaa Subburaj and Nitish Varma, had raised $125,000 from Upekkha and was used by Cimpress, Shopflo and Zeda.io. Its founders joined VideoDB and the product line remains operational.
VideoDB announced general availability of RTSP Connect for ingesting live RTSP camera feeds.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Videodb do?
- VideoDB is an AI-native video infrastructure platform that turns files, live streams and cameras into searchable context for agents.
- Who are Videodb's investors?
- Videodb's investors include Mango Capital.