# Shofo

> Shofo is a San Francisco startup (Y Combinator W26) building what it calls the world's largest indexed video library - a 'Common Crawl for video.' It continuously crawls billions of public short-form clips from platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, then runs them through a pipeline that sanitizes, deduplicates, segments and labels footage with object detection, activity recognition and reasoning annotations. Shofo sells custom, ready-to-train datasets to AI labs, delivering a request like '100K hours of cooking videos where someone is holding a pan' in days rather than months.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Braiden Dishman (Co-Founder & CEO (previously AWS; UCSB Economics)), Alexzendor Misra (Co-Founder & CTO (previously CEO of Correkt; UCSB)), Andre Braga (Co-Founder & Head of AI (UCSB Statistics & Data Science)), Bryan Hong (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 4
- **Products:** Shofo Video Index, Custom Labeled Datasets, Public Hugging Face datasets
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, Built what it describes as the largest index of short-form videos, Published a 58K-video dataset on Hugging Face with 25,000+ downloads

## Products & services

- **Shofo Video Index** — A continuously crawled, searchable index of billions of short-form videos sourced from TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, the broader web and private partnerships.
- **Custom Labeled Datasets** — On-demand datasets matched to a lab's natural-language request, run through sanitization, deduplication, segmentation and multi-stage labeling (object detection, activity recognition, semantic segmentation, reasoning annotations) and delivered in WebDataset, Hugging Face or raw archive formats.
- **Public Hugging Face datasets** — Open sample datasets (e.g. shofo-tiktok-general-small, ~58K videos) published on Hugging Face to demonstrate quality to the research community.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch
- Built what it describes as the largest index of short-form videos
- Published a 58K-video dataset on Hugging Face with 25,000+ downloads
- Pivoted from Correkt (an AI multimodal search engine with 40,000+ users) into a focused data-infrastructure company
- Named among promising startups from YC's latest batch in Forbes coverage

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Shofo publicly launched via Y Combinator as 'Common Crawl for video,' selling custom labeled datasets to AI labs.
- **2026-03** — Featured in Forbes coverage of promising startups from Y Combinator's latest batch.
- **2026-01** — Reported seed funding of $130,000 associated with the YC W26 batch.

## Links

- Website: https://shofo.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shofoai
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/shofoai

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Last updated: 2026-07-30