CEO and Co-Founder (Techstars '22)

Founder in Residence

CEO and Founder (Media Tech)

Business Development Director, UK and Scandinavia

Digital Ad Sales Revenue and Strategy Manager, UK and ROI

Strategy and Business Development Manager, Emerging Markets

Business and Strategy Analyst

Business Development, TV Sales & Distribution, Global Markets

Journalist and Columnist - Music, Cinema and TV

Production and Finance Assistant

Empowering teams with multimodal video search and curation tools  | Techstars Comcast NBCU '22 | Ex BBC, WarnerMedia

Jose Puga

Imaginario AI

Co-founder and CTO

Founder in residence (Comcast NBCU lift labs)

Founder in residence (EFPA6)

PhD candidate in deep learning for robotic vision

Visiting research student

Research Intern in deep learning for robotic vision/ AI Lab

Supply chain quality intern, Airbus Defence and Space

Quality Coordinator

Maintenance operator

CTO and co-founder at Imaginario AI (Techstars/ Comcast NBCU lift labs '22)

Abdelhak Loukkal

Imaginario AI is a Tunisian startup specializing in AI-assisted processing of video and audio content. The company's AI-powered API and platform revolutionize the processing and analysis of multimedia content, simplifying production and curation for marketers and creators.

Imaginario AI empowers companies to build video search and curation workflows with a powerful vector-based API and no-code platform.

216 Capital

Techstars

Earthling Ventures

Blue Lake

Comcast

Comcast Ventures

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs

📣  Imaginario AI has closed a $1M pre-seed round 💰 . Our ambition to bring custom AI video agents and high-end curation to creative and marketing workflows wouldn't be possible without those who believed in us from day zero: our investors 🙏 .

That's why we are deeply thankful to 216 Capital Ventures (Dhekra KHELIFI and Hassen Arfaoui), Techstars (KJ Singh), Comcast (Danielle Cohn), Blue Lake VC (David Gilgur and Lyubov Guk), Earthling VC (Arian Ghashghai), Wladimir d'Ormesson, Sebastian Salas Canitrot, Ranga Jayaraman, Sushil Jha, Martin Riepl, Atul Jain, Aksel Van der Wal, Jose Ignacio Bernal, Abhishek Marla, Thierry Bertin-Mahieux, and Matteo Mantovani. 

Our Techstars mentors and now friends Alex Serdiuk, Drew Silverstein, Matt Weckel, Abderrahmane Chaoui, and Ron Kerbs made most of these introductions without the need to make them. Thank you, thank you! Without you guys, our vision and ambition will only be a PowerPoint presentation. 

Finally, because it's impossible to achieve anything in life without the support of others, in this case, startup coaches and experts in the field, we are extremely thankful to KJ Singh, Luke Butler, Katie Teuber, Christine Hong, Sofia Machado Lopes, Lindsay Tabas, Jon (Yoni) Neff, 🚁 🚁 Sama Carlos Samame, Omar Ismail and Entrepreneur First. 

We are just starting 🏁 🏎 . This is not a race, but a marathon to win the hearts and minds of millions of users. Stay tuned 💪 🤖 . 

#startup  #funding #ai #video

We’re #hiring a new Sales Development Representative in Poland. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We have officially started our hiring quest to build our founding engineering team across Europe and MENA. Come and join us!

This week Lindsay Tabas interviewed our CEO Jose M. Puga as part of the  "Make Sense" podcast. Some topics discussed:
👉 What’s it been like fundraising in 2023 and will VCs ever stop hunting unicorns?
👉 Hugging Face’s (just raised $235M!) CEO’s testimony in front of US Congress around open science and open source AI
👉 How to build a network in the startup ecosystem when transitioning from the corporate world

We hope you enjoy it!

Full ep here: https://lnkd.in/e5ZV7QDf

#artificialintelligence #startups #fundraising

At Imaginario AI we are more than excited to announce that Aksel Van der Wal has joined us as senior advisor. His deep expertise in media and leading C-Level positions at Warner Bros. Discovery, Vodafone and Time Out Group plc are invaluable to us. 

The sky is the limit! 🚀 📹 🤖

At Imaginario AI we keep #hiring for more roles. We are looking for a creative and data-driven Demand Generation Manager in the UK who can drive our top-of-the-funnel content and email marketing strategy and execution.

Do you know anyone who might be interested?

If so, we will pay you $2,000 if we end up hiring the person you referred us to.

https://lnkd.in/e-8r2zHw

Imaginario AI is now fully compliant with TPN (Trusted Partner Network), the global, industry-wide media and entertainment content security initiative, owned by the Motion Picture Association.

By establishing an exceptionally high standard for enterprise-level security from day one, we're not only safeguarding our systems but also providing our Triple-A partners with assurance that their content libraries and personal data will be handled with utmost security.

Follow us closely, as we have more exciting news to come... 🎥 🚀

#media #featurefilms #hollywood #security #tpn #mpa

https://lnkd.in/guv8WBhu

AUDIO has been added as a third modality to Imaginario AI's powerful vector search API and no-code platform. This is in addition to dialogues and visual scenes found inside videos.

This means, that builders and creatives can now find sounds of different kinds inside their libraries without any metadata or inaccurate tags.

If you're building a new app in the video, audio, or 3D search space and you don't want to deal with complex ML tech stacks and training, please sign-up for our API beta program here: https://lnkd.in/eFjB8bij

Note: apologies in advance for the gory scenes in the demo 😯

#video #building #ml #ai #artificialintelligence #tech

We are excited to introduce Imaginario AI's enhanced topic finder feature, offering 10x improved readability and precision.

With just a few clicks, you can effortlessly identify the primary topics covered in any video and receive spot-on moments.

Due to its popularity among users, we anticipate this feature becoming a fundamental building block for our no-code platform. This will enable you to provide it to your users, such as on your website, or internally for your employees.

If you're interested in trying this and more AI-powered search and transformation features, sign-up for our beta on Imaginario.ai

#ai #video #transformation #building

Thank you for the mention Startup Bubble ! 

Imaginario AI is here to transform and democratize the video search and discovery space with contextual AI. 

Thank you also to our inconditional supporters
Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs and Techstars 🚀⚡️

 #ai #startup #video #search

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Jose Puga

CEO and Co-Founder (Techstars '22)

Abdelhak Loukkal

Co-founder and CTO