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🌴 NVIDIA-backed GenAI startup that raised $77M joins us at Tech Week

#031: Twelve Labs has raised $77M from NVIDIA, NEA, & Index and executive joins our Mediatech AI Panel! New LA chapter launch for GenAI Collective with kickoff event, Space NASA Tour waitlist open for November

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📃 Summary of Issue #031

Twelve Labs’ Founding Member joins us for Mediatech AI panel at Tech Week!

Meet Twelve Labs, a company that builds AI models that can understand and analyze videos and has raised $70M+ from New Enterprise Associates (NEA), NVIDIA, Index Ventures, Samsung Next, and Intel Capital.

Twelve Labs develops and delivers generative AI foundation models that allow users to “pinpoint and extract” exact moments in vast libraries of videos with natural language inputs.

Users can quickly locate scenes & footage that would otherwise have required hours to find.

Most relevant, Twelve Labs built its multimodal models specifically to understand video!

As we discuss the “Future of Generative Content,” I can’t think of a better company to join us for the Mediatech & AI panel on October 17th during LA Tech Week.

Anthony Giuliani is Global Head of Operations at Twelve Labs.

In 2021, Anthony became a founding advisor for Twelve Labs, helping with the company formation, fundraising, legal issues, and early business development. He now runs operations globally and has recently relocated to Los Angeles.

Before Twelve Labs, he was the General Counsel and VP of External Affairs at Cogni (fintech startup that raised $30M+).

Anthony brings extensive knowledge as a founder, lawyer, and international relations expert.

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Emerging LA hosted events that you don’t want to miss!

10/14 Space NASA Tour (waitlist open)

LA Tech Week starts with our Space Tour at NASA JPL in Pasadena!

This will be a highly curated private event and attendees will be hand-selected from a mix of founders, investors, and leaders working in or curious to learn about the space economy, robotics, deep tech, and government-funded innovation.

Waitlist Update: This is extremely popular, and we have limited slots, unfortunately. Please join the waitlist to be considered for a random drawing to attend our future Space Tours event.

GenAI Collective’s LA Chapter is officially launching in partnership with Emerging LA, and we celebrate the kickoff event during LA Tech Week!

The kickoff theme will be the “Future of Consumer AI.”

The GenAI Collective is a community of 20K+ founders, researchers, operators, and investors focused on AI and technological progress.

We look forward to advancing the local discussions on GenAI, a game-changing technology that is a natural fit for the creative capital of the world!

Step into the future with us during LA Tech Week with our Mediatech AI Mixer and Panel!

​Whether you’re a founder, investor, or tech enthusiast, you’ll leave with new connections, fresh ideas, and a renewed excitement for the possibilities ahead. 

Anthony Giuliani from Twelve Labs ($77M raised from NEA, NVIDIA, Index) will join our discussion how AI will change the creative industries and unlock generative content.

Towards the end of LA Tech Week, we will have our AI Founders Dinner. This will be a highly curated private event and attendees will be a hand-selected mix of founders, investors, and leaders in AI.

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