Moments Lab Raises $24M to Transform Video Search with Agentic AI

Moments Lab's New Funding and Expansion

Moments Lab, a pioneering AI company revolutionizing video management, has successfully raised $24 million in funding. The round was led by Oxx and included Orange Ventures, Kadmos, Supernova Invest, and Elaia Partners. This capital injection is set to accelerate the company’s expansion in the U.S. market and enhance the development of its innovative agentic AI platform, which transforms large video archives into instantly searchable and monetizable assets.

The Power of MXT-2 AI

At the core of Moments Lab's technology is MXT-2, a sophisticated multimodal AI that comprehends video content by watching, listening, and interpreting it with context-aware precision. Unlike traditional systems that merely label content, MXT-2 narrates video by identifying people, places, logos, and even cinematographic elements such as shot types and pacing. This natural language metadata converts hours of footage into structured, searchable intelligence, which is valuable for creative, editorial, marketing, and monetization workflows.

Introducing Agentic AI: Autonomous Video Editing

The next breakthrough from Moments Lab is its agentic AI — an autonomous system capable of planning, reasoning, and adapting to user intents. Instead of following simple instructions, this AI understands complex prompts like “generate a highlight reel for social” and autonomously pulls relevant scenes, suggests titles, selects appropriate formats, and aligns the output with the brand’s voice or platform needs.

Philippe Petitpont, CEO and co-founder, explains: “With MXT, we already index video faster than any human ever could. But with agentic AI, we’re building the next layer — AI that acts as a teammate, doing everything from crafting rough cuts to uncovering storylines hidden deep in the archive.”

A Platform Designed for Speed and Scale

Moments Lab goes beyond a simple indexing tool. It’s a full-stack platform designed to empower media professionals to work at the speed of storytelling. Traditional video search often relies on filenames, folders, or tribal knowledge, but Moments Lab offers a Google-like plain text search for video libraries. Users can type queries like “CEO talking about sustainability” or “crowd cheering at sunset” and instantly retrieve exact clips.

Key features include:

• AI Video Intelligence: MXT-2 describes content in time-coded natural language, capturing visible, audible, and implied information.
• User-Friendly Search: Accessible to non-technical users, enabling search across thousands of hours of footage using everyday language.
• Instant Clipping and Export: Moments can be clipped, trimmed, and shared within seconds without external tools.
• Metadata-Rich Discovery: Filters by people, events, dates, locations, rights status, or custom workflow facets.
• Quote and Soundbite Detection: Automatic transcription and highlight of impactful audio segments.
• Content Classification: Training for sorting footage by theme, tone, or use case.
• Translation and Multilingual Support: Transcribes and translates speech for global usability.

This comprehensive functionality has attracted clients like Thomson Reuters, Amazon Ads, Sinclair, Hearst, and Banijay, all facing complex content libraries and demands for speed, personalization, and monetization.

Integration and Precision

MXT-2 is trained on over 1.5 billion data points to reduce hallucinations and provide high-confidence outputs. Unlike closed AI stacks, Moments Lab stores metadata in open text, ensuring compatibility with tools such as Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Brightcove, YouTube, and enterprise MAM/CMS platforms via API or no-code integrations.

Fred Petitpont, co-founder and CTO, highlights adaptability: “Whether you’re a broadcaster clipping sports highlights or a brand licensing footage, our AI works like your team — just 100x faster.” The platform supports archive migration, live event clipping, editorial research, and content licensing, with secure link sharing and customizable editorial styles or compliance.

From Startup to Industry Leader

Founded in 2016 by twins Frederic and Phil Petitpont, Moments Lab began with a simple idea: what if you could Google your video library? Today, it delivers that and much more, becoming the most awarded indexing AI in the video industry since 2023.

Gökçe Ceylan, Principal at Oxx, remarks: “When we first saw MXT in action, it felt like magic. This is exactly the kind of product and team we look for — technically brilliant, customer-obsessed, and solving a real, growing need.”

With this funding, Moments Lab is set to lead the new category of agentic AI for video and redefine content discovery’s future.