# TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B for Video Understanding AI

> TwelveLabs has raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon, Radical Ventures, and Korea Investment Partners also joining, bringing the company's total funding to around $150 million. The startup builds models that let software actually understand video, not just tag it, through Marengo 3.0 for video embeddings and Pegasus 1.5 for turning footage into structured data. Video has been one of the harder frontiers for AI, precisely because it combines vision, motion, audio, and time. TwelveLabs is chasing what it grandly calls video superintelligence, aiming to make searching, summarizing, and reasoning over huge video libraries as routine as it already is for text. The company plans to expand R&D and open offices in New York and London. The strategic tell is who is at the table. NAVER and Korea Investment Partners give it an Asian foothold, while an AWS partnership to offer its models through Bedrock hints at where the enterprise demand is. As every organization sits on growing piles of unwatched footage, tools that make that video queryable have an obvious market.

_Section: [AI Funding Tracker](https://www.wortins.com/funding) · Source: Business Wire · Published Wednesday, July 22, 2026_

## Wortins' read

TwelveLabs has raised a $100 million Series B co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with Amazon, Radical Ventures, and Korea Investment Partners also joining, bringing the company's total funding to around $150 million. The startup builds models that let software actually understand video, not just tag it, through Marengo 3.0 for video embeddings and Pegasus 1.5 for turning footage into structured data. Video has been one of the harder frontiers for AI, precisely because it combines vision, motion, audio, and time. TwelveLabs is chasing what it grandly calls video superintelligence, aiming to make searching, summarizing, and reasoning over huge video libraries as routine as it already is for text. The company plans to expand R&D and open offices in New York and London. The strategic tell is who is at the table. NAVER and Korea Investment Partners give it an Asian foothold, while an AWS partnership to offer its models through Bedrock hints at where the enterprise demand is. As every organization sits on growing piles of unwatched footage, tools that make that video queryable have an obvious market.

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