Clipto, a startup that uses AI to make video, audio, and image files searchable, has raised $15 million in an all-equity round, valuing the company at $250 million post-money. The funding round was led by investors including HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, and Palm Drive Capital.
The company's founder, Henry Kang, has been working on related problems for nearly two decades. As a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, Kang worked on robots that recorded their surroundings, identified objects, and remembered where to find them. He later applied the same basic idea to his first startup, which used AI to keep track of the clothes in a user's closet and suggest outfits.
Clipto indexes videos, audio, images, meetings, and other files on a user's computer, allowing users to search for specific content by describing what they're looking for or asking AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude to find it for them. The company says over 30 million people have used its products since launch, and it has hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers.
Kang declined to provide a more precise subscriber count or average revenue per customer, but said a significant portion of customers remain subscribed for more than two years. Clipto reached $15 million in annual recurring revenue at the beginning of 2026 and remains profitable on a net-income basis.
The company is entering a market where larger companies like Adobe, Apple, and Google already control much of the data and software people use to manage it. However, Clipto's ability to search across multiple file types and integrate with various AI agents sets it apart from its competitors.
The new funding will go toward improving Clipto's AI models and computing infrastructure, as well as integrations with more AI agents. With its unique approach to searchable content, Clipto is poised to make a significant impact in the AI-powered search market.
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