Moments Lab Raises $24 Million to Pioneer Agentic AI Video Discovery

Moments Lab, the AI company transforming how organizations manage video, has secured $24 million in new funding. The round was led by Oxx with participation from Orange Ventures, Kadmos, Supernova Invest, and Elaia Partners. This investment will accelerate the company's U.S. expansion and fuel the ongoing development of its agentic AI platform—a system engineered to turn vast video archives into instantly searchable, monetizable assets.

At its core is MXT-2, a multimodal video-understanding AI that watches, listens to, and interprets video with contextual precision. It goes beyond simple labeling to narrate the content, identifying people, places, logos, and even cinematographic elements like shot types and pacing. This natural-language metadata transforms hours of footage into structured, searchable intelligence that can be deployed across creative, editorial, marketing, and monetization workflows.

The true breakthrough, however, is the introduction of agentic AI—an autonomous system capable of planning, reasoning, and adapting to a user's intent. Instead of just following commands, it comprehends prompts like "generate a social media highlight reel" and takes action: sourcing relevant scenes, suggesting titles, selecting formats, and aligning the final output with brand voice or platform specifications.

"MXT already indexes video faster than any human ever could," said Philippe Petitpont, CEO and co-founder of Moments Lab. "With agentic AI, we're adding the next layer—an AI that acts as a true collaborator, handling everything from assembling rough edits to uncovering narrative threads buried deep within archives."

From Search to Storytelling: A Platform Engineered for Speed and Scale

Moments Lab is more than an indexing engine. It is a comprehensive platform that enables media professionals to operate at the speed of storytelling. This begins with search, which remains one of the most significant bottlenecks in video production.

Most production teams still depend on filenames, folder structures, and internal knowledge to find footage. Moments Lab changes this with plain-text search that functions like Google for your video library. Users simply type what they need—"CEO discussing sustainability" or "crowd cheering at sunset"—and retrieve precise clips in seconds.

Key features include:

• AI video intelligence: MXT-2 doesn't just tag content; it provides time-coded, natural-language descriptions, capturing what is seen, heard, and implied.
• Accessible search: Designed for ease of use, the platform allows non-technical users to search thousands of hours of footage using conversational language.
• Instant clipping and export: Once a moment is found, it can be clipped, trimmed, exported, or shared in seconds, eliminating the need for manual timecode handoffs or external software.
• Rich metadata discovery: Filter by people, events, dates, locations, rights status, or any custom field required by your workflow.
• Quote and soundbite detection: Automatically transcribes audio and highlights the most impactful segments—ideal for interviews and press conferences.
• Content classification: Train the system to categorize footage by theme, tone, or use case—from trailers and corporate reels to social media clips.
• Translation and multilingual support: Transcribes and translates speech, even in multilingual recordings, making content accessible on a global scale.

This end-to-end functionality has made Moments Lab a vital partner for TV networks, sports rights holders, advertising agencies, and global brands. Recent clients include Thomson Reuters, Amazon Ads, Sinclair, Hearst, and Banijay—all of whom face the challenges of managing increasingly complex content libraries while meeting demands for speed, personalization, and monetization.

Built for Integration, Trained for Precision

MXT-2 is trained on over 1.5 billion data points, minimizing inaccuracies and delivering high-confidence outputs that teams can trust. Unlike proprietary AI that locks metadata in closed formats, Moments Lab maintains everything in open text, ensuring seamless compatibility with industry-standard tools like Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Brightcove, YouTube, and enterprise MAM/CMS platforms via API or no-code integrations.

"The real strength of our system lies not just in speed, but in its adaptability," said Fred Petitpont, co-founder and CTO. "Whether you're a broadcaster clipping sports highlights or a brand licensing footage to partners, our AI works the way your team does—just a hundred times faster."

The platform is already powering a wide range of tasks, from archive migration and live event clipping to editorial research and content licensing. Users can share secure links with collaborators, sell footage to external buyers, and even customize the system to align with specific editorial styles or compliance requirements.

From Startup to Industry Standard

Founded in 2016 by twin brothers Frederic and Phil Petitpont, Moments Lab began with a straightforward question: What if you could Google your entire video library? Today, the platform provides a definitive answer, redefining how creative and editorial teams interact with media. Since 2023, it has become the most decorated indexing AI in the video industry, with momentum continuing to build.

"The first time we saw MXT in action, it felt like magic," said Gökçe Ceylan, Principal at Oxx. "This is precisely the kind of product and team we seek—technically brilliant, customer-focused, and solving a genuine, expanding market need."

With this latest funding round, Moments Lab is positioned to lead a category that barely existed five years ago—agentic AI for video—and to shape the future of content discovery.