Company Snapshot
TwelveLabs is a AI infra company, based in San Francisco, California, USA, founded 2021 by Jae Lee.
Recent changes
- Aug 3, 2026Aug 3, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M to Build Video Superintelligence Pulse story
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026Raised $100M Series B PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Quadrille Capital PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Radical Ventures PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Red Bull Ventures PYMNTS
Earlier changes (6)
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: New Enterprise Associates (NEA) PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Index Ventures PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Amazon PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: Korea Investment Partners PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026New investor: NAVER Ventures PYMNTS
- Jul 1, 2026Jul 1, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS Partnership Pulse story
Funding History
1 event · sources dated per row| Date | Event | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2026 | Series B | $100M | — | PYMNTS |
Investors
Latest Pulse
- Aug 3, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M to Build Video SuperintelligenceTwelveLabs raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures to expand beyond video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning for video.→
- Jul 13, 2026Open-Source AI Infrastructure's Funding RenaissanceOllama's $65 million Series B is the latest sign that open-source AI tooling -- once seen as a commodity layer -- is commanding real institutional capital alongside the neoclouds and frontier labs.→
- Jul 6, 2026Why $150M Rounds Are the New $50M Series AEven Realities' $150M round and Agility Robotics' $620M SPAC raise show late-stage checks climbing sharply even for companies with modest revenue, continuing 2026's round-size inflation trend.→
- Jul 4, 2026The Return of the $100M+ Vertical AI RoundTwelveLabs' $100M video-AI raise and Celea Therapeutics' $180M biotech round show growth-stage investors writing nine-figure checks into narrow, vertical AI applications again, not just horizontal infrastructure plays.→
- Jul 1, 2026TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS PartnershipTwelveLabs closed a $100 million Series B on July 1, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon participating directly, pushing total funding above $200 million. The company builds foundation models that understand video the way humans do, and is expanding from video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning, while committing AWS Trainium as its preferred inference chip.→
- Jun 30, 2026GV's Dave Munichiello on Qualcomm's Modular Deal, a Roughly 10x Return, and the AI Software ShiftGV general partner Dave Munichiello discussed Qualcomm's June 24 acquisition of AI infrastructure software startup Modular in a Crunchbase Q&A published June 30, describing a return of roughly 10x on GV's total dollars invested after leading Modular's Series A at a $155 million valuation with a $23 million check. Munichiello framed the deal as validation of a shift toward 'disaggregated inference' — software that lets AI workloads run efficiently across a mix of chips rather than locking into a single hardware vendor.→
Coverage Timeline
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FUNDING$100M Series B
TwelveLabs Raises $100M to Build Video Superintelligence
TwelveLabs raised a $100M Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures to expand beyond video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning for video.
The Return of the $100M+ Vertical AI Round
FUNDING$100M-$180M vertical AI rounds
The Return of the $100M+ Vertical AI Round
TwelveLabs' $100M video-AI raise and Celea Therapeutics' $180M biotech round show growth-stage investors writing nine-figure checks into narrow, vertical AI applications again, not just horizontal infrastructure plays.
TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS Partnership
FUNDING$100M
TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS Partnership
TwelveLabs closed a $100 million Series B on July 1, co-led by NEA and Naver Ventures with Amazon participating directly, pushing total funding above $200 million. The company builds foundation models that understand video the way humans do, and is expanding from video-understanding models into a full-stack agentic system combining perception, knowledge and reasoning, while committing AWS Trainium as its preferred inference chip.
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Who are TwelveLabs's investors?
TwelveLabs's investors include NAVER Ventures, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Amazon, Index Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, and 3 more (As of 2026-07-31T14:35:19Z).
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