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The World's Largest Video Library

Winter 2026Founded 20254 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
AI insightcan contain mistakes
Synthetic Data LabelingSaaSAI labs, computer vision teams, researchersMedium competition
Moat
Massive video index; proprietary labeling agents; relationships with content sources; time-to-delivery advantage.
Key risk
Synthetic data generation tools may reduce demand for real video; copyright/licensing disputes over aggregated video library.
Why now
Generative model training at scale requires massive labeled datasets; vision AI demand accelerating.
Competitors
Labelbox, Scale AI, Roboflow, Supervisely

About

We are building the world’s largest video library. We've aggregated billions of videos into a searchable index and use agents to find and label the exact datasets a lab needs on demand. If a lab needs 100K hours of cooking videos where someone is holding a pan, with reasoning annotations on top, our agents search the index, extract the matching subset, route it through our labeling pipeline, and deliver a custom dataset in days, not months.

Founders Β· 4

Bryan Hong
Bryan HongFounder & CEO
Berkeley

Co-Founder & CEO @ Shofo | Berkeley Dropout

Andre Braga
Andre BragaFounder & Head of AI
MIT

Co-Founder & Head of AI @ Shofo | UCSB BS Statistics & Data Science | Prev. MIT

Braiden Dishman
Braiden DishmanFounder & COO
Amazon

Co-Founder & COO @ Shofo | UCSB BA Economics | Prev. AWS

Alexzendor Misra
Alexzendor MisraFounder & CTO

Co-Founder & CTO @ Shofo | UCSB Dropout | Prev. CEO @ Correkt (43k users)

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· Jan 2026
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Shofo is building the largest index of videos

Shofo builds the largest index of videos by aggregating public and private videos into a single, continuously updated library. It cleans, searches, and labels the videos to deliver custom, ready-to-use datasets for AI teams, enabling researchers to assemble targeted video datasets quickly (e.g., specific hand-object interaction footage).

B2BInfrastructureArtificial IntelligenceData LabelingInfrastructure

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