Clipto Uses AI to Search Terabytes of Video and Is Now Valued at $250M
Clipto, the three-year-old San Francisco startup whose on-device AI lets people search terabytes of their own video, audio, images and documents by describing what they want, has raised $15 million at a $250 million post-money valuation. This analysis covers the funding round and its investors, the roughly $15 million in annual recurring revenue and net-income profitability behind it, founder Henry Kang’s path from Carnegie Mellon robotics to a Tencent exit, the new Model Context Protocol connector that lets ChatGPT and Claude query a private media archive, Pro-plan pricing, how Clipto compares with Adobe, Apple, Google and TwelveLabs, and what the “memory layer” thesis means for businesses sitting on years of unused footage.