# TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B for Video Intelligence Platform

> TwelveLabs has raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon participating, bringing the company's total funding to roughly $150 million. The startup is chasing what it calls video superintelligence, the ability for software to genuinely understand footage rather than just store and stream it. Its models are the pitch. Marengo 3.0 is built to understand sound, speech, motion and even emotion across the timeline of a video, while Pegasus 1.5 turns raw footage into structured, searchable data. Together they aim to make video as queryable as text, so you can find the exact moment something happens instead of scrubbing through hours of it. The significance is that video has been the hardest major modality to make useful at scale, precisely because it is so information dense. If TwelveLabs can make searching and analyzing it routine, it unlocks a long list of applications from media archives to security and sports, and the backing from NAVER and Amazon signals serious belief that this layer is worth owning.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: GlobeNewswire · Published Monday, July 13, 2026_

## Wortins' read

TwelveLabs has raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon participating, bringing the company's total funding to roughly $150 million. The startup is chasing what it calls video superintelligence, the ability for software to genuinely understand footage rather than just store and stream it. Its models are the pitch. Marengo 3.0 is built to understand sound, speech, motion and even emotion across the timeline of a video, while Pegasus 1.5 turns raw footage into structured, searchable data. Together they aim to make video as queryable as text, so you can find the exact moment something happens instead of scrubbing through hours of it. The significance is that video has been the hardest major modality to make useful at scale, precisely because it is so information dense. If TwelveLabs can make searching and analyzing it routine, it unlocks a long list of applications from media archives to security and sports, and the backing from NAVER and Amazon signals serious belief that this layer is worth owning.

## Source

[Read the full story at GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/07/01/3320545/0/en/twelvelabs-raises-100-million-in-series-b-funding-to-build-video-superintelligence.html)

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