Funding

Hongwen Henry Kang Co-Founded Clipto Raises $15M in Funding

Sep 2, 2026 | By Devin Jacobs

SUMMARY

Clipto raised $15M at a $250M valuation.
The funding will support AI and infrastructure growth.
Clipto builds AI tools for video search and discovery.

Clipto, a San Francisco, CA-based artificial intelligence video search and content discovery startup, has raised $15 million in a funding round at a $250 million valuation.

The round saw backers HSG, GL Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Palm Drive Capital, Hans Tung, Lu Zhang, and 522 Ventures.

The company will use the capital to expand compute infrastructure, strengthen its machine learning and computer vision teams, and accelerate enterprise API adoption.

Funding Snapshot

Metric	Details
Fundraise Amount	$15M
Valuation	$250M
Company	Clipto
Sector	Artificial Intelligence / Video Technology
Headquarters	San Francisco, California, USA
Key Technology	AI Video Search & Content Discovery

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About Clipto

Founded by Hongwen Henry Kang, Clipto develops a multimodal AI search and indexing platform that makes digital content easier to discover. Its technology analyzes visual content, spoken audio, on-screen text and contextual actions to create a searchable understanding of video and other files.

Core offerings include:

AI-powered video search
Multimodal content indexing
Natural-language discovery
Enterprise media APIs

Core Technologies / Products / Services

Capability/Product	Application/Use Case
AI video search	Finds specific scenes and content
Multimodal indexing	Analyzes video, audio, images and text
Natural-language queries	Enables conversational content discovery
Developer API	Integrates AI search into enterprise platforms

Leadership Comments

“Generative AI has transformed how content is created, but it still struggles to understand the enormous amount of personal media people already have,” said Henry Kang, Founder and CEO of Clipto. “We believe AI needs a memory layer, not just a reasoning layer. Video is where that challenge is most visible today, but the broader opportunity is helping AI understand the information people have accumulated over years of work.

“We believe AI’s next frontier isn’t just generating more content, it’s making sense of the enormous amount of content people already have,” said Holly Zheng, Founding Partner at EnvisionX Capital. “Clipto is tackling one of the hardest problems in AI: turning years of unstructured video into AI-readable memory while keeping data private and on-device.