TwelveLabs lands $100M Series B to scale AI video intelligence

AI video intelligence startup TwelveLabs has raised $100 million in Series B funding to accelerate development and scaling of its video understanding platform. The round was co-led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and NAVER Ventures, with participation from Amazon, Radical Ventures, Korea Investment Partners, Index Ventures, Quadrille Capital, and Red Bull Ventures, according to the company’s announcement and multiple investor disclosures. The financing builds on TwelveLabs’ earlier capital raises and brings its total funding to roughly $150 million, as noted in industry coverage.

TwelveLabs, based in San Francisco with operations in Seoul, focuses on AI that can search, analyze, and reason over large volumes of video content, powering enterprise and developer use cases that require deep video understanding rather than video generation. The company plans to use the new capital for research and product development, scaling its Video Cognition System, and expanding its global footprint with new offices in New York and London alongside its existing hubs. The round also reinforces strategic ties with Amazon and AWS, with reporting noting that new TwelveLabs models will be optimized for AWS Trainium chips and launch first on AWS as the startup’s preferred cloud provider. This Series B positions TwelveLabs as a leading player in AI-powered video search and intelligence, at a time when enterprises are looking to unlock more value from their growing video archives.