Twelve Labs

Twelve Labs develops video understanding AI technology that enables search and analysis across visual, audio, and text content within videos. The company was founded in 2021 by Jae Lee and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea.

The company's primary product is a video AI platform that provides APIs for developers to integrate multimodal video understanding capabilities into applications. The platform can process video content to extract insights from visual scenes, spoken audio, and on-screen text simultaneously. Twelve Labs serves enterprise customers across media, security, and content management sectors.

Twelve Labs raised a $12 million Series A round in 2022 led by NEA, following a $5 million seed round in 2021. The company has developed partnerships with cloud providers and maintains research collaborations with academic institutions focused on computer vision and natural language processing.