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.
Jul 4, 2026TwelveLabs 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.
Jul 1, 2026