Twelve Labs

Founded in 2021, Twelve Labs is a technology startup focused on making video a first-class data type. The company develops large-scale, multimodal AI models that can understand the context of videos by processing visual data, audio, speech, and on-screen text simultaneously. Their mission is to provide developers with powerful API access to these models, enabling advanced functionalities like semantic video search, classification, and summarization. The company is backed by prominent investors, including NVIDIA's venture arm and Intel Capital, and operates as a remote-first organization with primary hubs in San Francisco and Seoul.