ClipMine

ClipMine was a technology company that developed a platform for video indexing and content analysis. Founded in 2013 by former Google engineer Zia Syed, the company was based in Mountain View, California. Syed identified a gap in video search capabilities, noting that most platforms only indexed content by title and metadata, making it difficult to find specific moments within long videos.

The company's core product was a video annotation platform that used a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and crowdsourcing to tag content and create frame-level metadata for online videos. This technology allowed users, such as bloggers and content creators, to import videos from sites like YouTube and DailyMotion and annotate them, creating a searchable table of contents within the video itself. The goal was to make video content more discoverable, shareable, and valuable for creators, consumers, and advertisers. ClipMine's proprietary "Content Aware Video Player™" enabled viewers to personalize their experience by skipping to specific tagged sections.

ClipMine secured approximately $2.26 million in a seed funding round in July 2015 from investors including Sherpalo Ventures and Future Shape. In August 2017, the company was acquired by Twitch, Amazon's video-game streaming service, in an acqui-hire deal to enhance Twitch's video discovery features.

Keywords: video indexing, video annotation, content analysis, metadata generation, machine learning, AI video, video search, crowdsourced tagging, content-aware video, video discovery, frame-level metadata, interactive video, online video platform, acqui-hired, Zia Syed, Twitch acquisition