# VideoVerse

> VideoVerse is a video technology company founded in 2016, best known for Magnifi, its AI platform for detecting moments in live and recorded footage, creating highlights, resizing clips and distributing short-form content. Its customers include sports leagues, broadcasters and streaming services. Minute Media acquired VideoVerse in September 2025; SI (Sportz Interactive) subsequently acquired Magnifi in August 2026.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Sacramento, United States
- **Founders:** Vinayak Shrivastav (Co-founder; CEO at the 2025 acquisition), Saket Dandotia (Co-founder; formerly COO), Alok Patil (Co-founder; formerly CTO)
- **Products:** Magnifi, Digital Highlight Pro, Auto-Flip, Content Moderation, Web Stories
- **Notable:** Magnifi received a 2023 NAB Show Product of the Year award., Magnifi won SportsPro OTT Best Emerging Tech Company awards in 2022 and 2024, according to its award history., Selected for Google for Startups Accelerator in 2022.

## Products & services

- **Magnifi** — AI video highlights, moment detection, tagging, editing, resizing and distribution for live and recorded footage. Acquired by SI (Sportz Interactive) in August 2026.
- **Digital Highlight Pro** — Automatically tags predefined events and creates clips and highlights for social platforms.
- **Auto-Flip** — Reframes video into multiple aspect ratios for mobile and social distribution.
- **Content Moderation** — API-based detection and tagging of sensitive or explicit scenes.
- **Web Stories** — Creates interactive Google Web Stories from live and recorded video.
- **illusto** — Cloud-based video editor introduced in beta in August 2022 for individual creators and businesses; subscription model announced at launch.
- **Styck** — Historical VideoVerse offering for multi-platform live streaming.
- **Reely** — Automated esports and gaming highlight technology acquired in April 2023 and listed in Magnifi’s product portfolio.
- **Magnifi News** — Live and recorded news clipping, speaker and context detection, resizing and publishing; introduced at IBC 2025.

## Achievements

- Magnifi received a 2023 NAB Show Product of the Year award.
- Magnifi won SportsPro OTT Best Emerging Tech Company awards in 2022 and 2024, according to its award history.
- Selected for Google for Startups Accelerator in 2022.
- Acquired Reely.ai in April 2023 to expand esports and gaming capabilities.
- Minute Media acquired VideoVerse in September 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — SI (Sportz Interactive) acquired Magnifi to integrate its AI video capabilities into FanOS Media. This is a Magnifi acquisition, not public confirmation that SI acquired all of VideoVerse.
- **2025-09** — Minute Media announced its acquisition of VideoVerse on September 9; a syndicated company release followed on September 22/23.
- **2025-09** — Magnifi introduced its news clipping offering at IBC 2025.
- **2025-07** — Magnifi publicized generative AI additions for captions, thumbnails, metadata, subtitles and rules-based workflows.
- **2025-02** — Formula E selected Magnifi for replay and social highlight automation.

## Links

- Website: https://vverse.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/videoverse
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/VideoVerseHQ
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/videoverseofficiall/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/VideoVerseHQ/

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Last updated: 2026-10-02