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Funding and backers

Total raised
$72M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$50M
Venture round · Apr 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+10 posted in 30 days
Backers
5
Techstars, Expa
The money's age
Long since its last round
29 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 29, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $50M · SEC Form D Jul 20, 2023 Raised a round Venture round $10.1M · SEC Form D Aug 26, 2022 Raised a round Venture round $12M · SEC Form D 2021 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.37%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
GitHub stars
13 public repositories
Hacker News stories
6
best: 28 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Apr 2024 $50M — SEC Form D
Venture round Jul 2023 $10.1M — SEC Form D
Venture round Aug 2022 $12M — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Twelve Labs, Inc. SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Jae Sung LeeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Seung Joon LeeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Jin Woo ChungExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Soyoung LeeExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Overview

Twelve Labs is an artificial intelligence technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2021. The firm provides a video intelligence platform and API that utilizes multimodal foundation models to enable natural language search, automated summarization, and content categorization within large video libraries. Operating on a global scale, the company serves developers and enterprises in the media, advertising, and public sectors to streamline video workflows and extract insights from unstructured visual data.

News

Press release PRNewswire 6 months ago
TwelveLabs Unveils the Next Era of Video Intelligence at NAB Show 2026
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TwelveLabs, the video understanding company, today announced a series of product and ecosystem advancements at the NAB Show 2026. The...
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Press release PRNewswire 6 months ago
TwelveLabs Launches Pegasus 1.5, Turning Raw Video Into Structured, Queryable Data at Scale
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --TwelveLabs, the video intelligence company, today announced the general availability of Pegasus 1.5, its latest video reasoning model....
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Press release PRNewswire 6 months ago
TwelveLabs Transforms UNICEF Korea
/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TwelveLabs, the video understanding company, today announced it has built an AI-powered digital archive for UNICEF Korea, transforming...
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News twelvelabs.io 10 months ago
Marengo 3.0: Real-World Multimodal Embedding AI
Marengo 3.0 is TwelveLabs' multimodal embedding model for video retrieval, supporting composed queries, multilingual search, and long-form video.
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News Observer 11 months ago
How Twelve Labs Teaches A.I. to 'See' and Transform Video Understanding: Interview
San Francisco startup Twelve Labs is using video-understanding A.I. to help industries unlock vast archives of untapped footage.
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News twelvelabs.io 1 year ago
Foundation models are going multimodal
Explore foundation models, scaling laws, and the rise of multimodal and video AI transforming how machines understand data.
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News twelvelabs.io 2 years ago
Semantic Video Search Engine with TwelveLabs & ApertureDB
Learn how to build a semantic video search engine with the powerful integration of TwelveLabs
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Twelve Labs over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
106
Postings analysed
42
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python48%
Go12%
JavaScript12%
TypeScript10%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch17%
OpenTelemetry7%
FFmpeg7%
Triton7%
Databases
Snowflake98%
PostgreSQL5%
Amazon Aurora5%
ElasticSearch2%
Cloud & platforms
Databricks98%
AWS31%
Kubernetes26%
Azure24%
AI & ML
LLM62%
Claude24%
Gemini19%
VLM7%
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Full Twelve Labs tech stack 106 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$182k
Typical range
$133k – $280k
Open positions
7
7 Jobs
Middle 28.6%
Staff 57.1%
Architect 14.3%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Middle 2 $136k $133k – $140k
Staff 4 $211k $158k – $280k
Architect 1 $240k $240k
Highest paying role Senior Staff Product Manager, Platform Integrations & Partnerships $280k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Twelve Labs By role, level and city, against the market · 7 jobs with pay

People

Jae Sung Lee
Executive Officer, Director
Seung Joon Lee
Executive Officer, Director
Jin Woo Chung
Executive Officer, Director
Soyoung Lee
Executive Officer, Director
Rob Toews
Director
Dong Shin Kim
Director
Kelly Toole
Director
Tiffany Luck
Director
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
15
6 opened / 10 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
63 days
faster than 21% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
26% ▼
Leadership
16% ▼
DevOps
10% ▲
Backend
6%
Product
6%
Solutions
6% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Asana to stack Oct 2026
Added Reddit to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Oct 2026
Added ChatGPT to stack Oct 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026
Added GDPR to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Looker to stack Sep 2026
Added Triton to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA Toolkit to stack Sep 2026
Added CUDA to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
San Francisco
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San Francisco United States
HQ
We're international innovators.
3 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff $220k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Support
55 Green Street,, San Francisco, CA 94111
seen since Jun 2026 company site, job postings
Seoul South Korea
Engineering / R&D
7 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for DevOps, AI/ML, Backend
seen since Dec 2025 job postings

Jobs

Hybrid • Full-Time • Seoul
JavaScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
Frontend
Next.js
React.js
React Query
DevOps
Rest API
CI/CD
Design
Figma
QA
Jest
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≈ $73k – $216k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Seoul
Go
Java
Kotlin
C
FFmpeg
Databases
Snowflake
Databricks
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Prometheus
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Grafana
Apply
≈ $98k – $175k per year (Estimated) • Remote (United Kingdom) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
AWS Bedrock
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply
$198k – $240k per year • Remote (United States) • Full-Time • 5+ years exp
Python
JavaScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
AWS Bedrock
Edge AI
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply
$216k – $280k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply
≈ $69k – $192k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Seoul
Python
TypeScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
$118k – $140k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • San Francisco
Python
Go
PowerShell
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Falcon
LLM
Edge AI
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Cloudflare
GitHub
IAM
Windows
TCP/IP
DNS
DHCP
VPN
Wi-Fi
Cybersecurity
Okta
Crowdstrike
Zscaler
ISO 27001
PCI DSS
SOC 2
GDPR
NIST 800-171
Zero Trust
Least Privilege
Microsoft Entra ID
Management
Google Workspace
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≈ $104k – $240k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 12+ years exp • Seoul
Python
TypeScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Kubernetes
Apply
≈ $137k – $312k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Seoul
Python
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Embeddings
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
AI Agents
PyTorch
LLM
Contrastive Learning
FSDP
Apply
≈ $70k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Seoul
Python
Go
TypeScript
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
LLM
DevOps
Terraform
Ansible
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Platform Engineering
Linux
Apply
≈ $95k – $243k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Master's Degree • Seoul
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Claude
Embeddings
Quantization
Multimodal AI
Computer Vision
AI Agents
VLM
Gemini
LLM
Pre-training
Structured Outputs
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
Apply
$200k – $240k per year • Hybrid • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • San Francisco
Snowflake
Databricks
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
Edge AI
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$72M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $50M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2023 $10.1M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2022 $12M Details