Shade raises $14M for AI-powered video search platform
Original: Shade lands $14M to let creative teams search their video libraries in plain English
Why This Matters
AI-powered video search addresses growing content management challenges as AI accelerates media generation.
New York startup Shade closed $14M Series A led by Khosla Ventures for cloud storage platform enabling creative teams to search video libraries using natural language. Founded in 2024 by Brandon Fan and Emerson Dove, company has raised $20M total.
Shade, a New York-based startup founded in 2024 by CEO Brandon Fan and CTO Emerson Dove, announced it raised $14 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures, Construct Capital, and Bling Capital. The four-year-old company has raised $20 million total, with General Catalyst, SignalFire, and Contrary also investing. Shade builds cloud storage platforms for agencies, sports media teams, consumer brands, real estate companies, and podcasters to store and search media files. The platform offers natural language search powered by auto-tagging that can identify exact moments in videos matching search queries. Fan said the company was built 'out of our frustration as creatives' with existing tools like Dropbox. He positions Shade as a creative file storage system similar to how CRMs organized contact information 20 years ago.