Troveo AI
Troveo is redefining video monetization by connecting content owners with AI developers. Their platform allows content creators to earn passive income by licensing their footage to AI companies for model training, ensuring they get paid fairly while retaining full control and ownership of their work. Troveo boasts a network of over 2,500 content owners and has paid out over $5 million to them, with a catalog of over 350 million video clips. They offer a straightforward process for submitting and licensing content, facilitating recurring revenue streams for creators.
Troveo AI
Troveo is redefining video monetization by connecting content owners with AI developers. Their platform allows content creators to earn passive income by licensing their footage to AI companies for model training, ensuring they get paid fairly while retaining full control and ownership of their work. Troveo boasts a network of over 2,500 content owners and has paid out over $5 million to them, with a catalog of over 350 million video clips. They offer a straightforward process for submitting and licensing content, facilitating recurring revenue streams for creators.
TL;DR
What they do: Licensing and ingestion pipeline that lets video creators monetize and rights-clear footage for AI training
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
Founders: Marty Pesis (Co‑founder & CEO), Trent Krupp (Co‑founder & CRO)
Scale signal: Network of >2,500 content owners and >350M video clips; paid out >$5M to creators
Funding: Seed round reported Nov 2024; total funding reported ~$5.5M
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Preparing and licensing video content as training data for AI models (rights clearance, ingestion, annotation, provenance).
Industry
AI; Data; Creator economy
Funding Track Record
$4,500,000
Reported Seed round in November 2024; participating investors listed include Siqi Chen, Mark Pincus and Andreas Klinger
Investor Signal
“Seed led by Seven Seven Six with participation from investors including Siqi Chen, Mark Pincus and Andreas Klinger”