video-understanding
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OnDeck AI
OnDeck AI is a Vancouver-based Y Combinator (S25) company building Perception-0, a vision model that lets organizations find any object, behavior, or event in video footage using plain language - without collecting training data or building a custom computer-vision pipeline. Started as a fisheries-monitoring project, it now serves defense agencies, robotics teams, and security operators, including a pilot with Singapore's Ministry of Defence.
Coactive AI
Coactive AI is an enterprise multimodal application platform that turns unstructured video, image, and audio into searchable, time-aligned, taggable data - giving media, retail, and tech companies a way to actually see what is inside their content libraries without an army of human taggers.
TwelveLabs
TwelveLabs is a San Francisco-based AI company building video-native multimodal foundation models that give machines the ability to see, hear, and understand video the way humans do. Its flagship models - Marengo for embedding and retrieval and Pegasus for video-to-text generation - power enterprise applications in media, government, sports, and security, enabling precise semantic search, summarization, and insight extraction from video at scale. With 30,000+ developers on its platform and backing from NVIDIA, Databricks, Snowflake, and In-Q-Tel, TwelveLabs is becoming the standard infrastructure layer for video intelligence.
Jae Lee
Jae Lee is the Co-founder and CEO of TwelveLabs, a San Francisco-based AI company building the world's most advanced video understanding platform. A UC Berkeley computer science graduate and former cyber security leader for the South Korean army, Lee co-founded TwelveLabs in 2021 to solve a problem no one else wanted to tackle from scratch: teaching machines to understand video the way humans do. The company has raised over $107 million from NEA, NVIDIA NVentures, Databricks, Snowflake, and SK Telecom, and now serves 20,000+ developer organizations across media, sports, advertising, automotive, and government sectors with its proprietary Marengo and Pegasus video AI models.
Karttikeya Mangalam
Karttikeya Mangalam is the Founder and CEO of SigIQ.ai, a Berkeley-based AI tutoring startup that raised $9.5M in seed funding to make elite-level, personalized education accessible globally. A PhD graduate from UC Berkeley's BAIR lab with 40+ published papers and 10,000+ citations, he grew up in Muzaffarpur, Bihar and built an AI tutor that set the all-time record on India's notoriously brutal UPSC civil service exam — scoring 175/200, beating 1.3 million candidates in under 7 minutes.