Company:Valossa
Valossa (Valossa Labs Oy) is an artificial intelligence company, specializing in multimodal AI for the automatization of video-related tasks.[1][2][3] The company was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Oulu, Finland.[4]
Dr. Mika Rautiainen, a computer vision and AI expert, is the CEO of Valossa. He is also one of the founders of the company, and an alumni of the University of Oulu.[5]
The video AI products of Valossa provide features such as video-to-text descriptions and speech-to-text (for captioning, subtitling, translation, media content logging),[6] ad placement[7] as well as content repurposing using an automatic video clipping AI tool.[8]
Venture capital companies and business angels invested in Valossa include 01 Ventures, Butterfly Ventures, Reaktor Ventures and Jari Ovaskainen. [9][10]
In 2024, Valossa received a grant for the research and development work towards an AI tool targeted to fit the needs of the video production industry.[11]
In 2018, Valossa won the first place in the Media Honeypot 2018 Pitching Competition organized as part of a media startup business event[12] and was picked to the Gartner list of Cool Vendors.[13]
References
- ↑ "AI Video Analysis - Transcribe, Index and Repurpose Videos". February 18, 2024. https://valossa.com/.
- ↑ "Valossa Labs Oy - Company Profile and News". https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/1364635D:FH.
- ↑ "Valossa Labs Oy". May 14, 2020. https://www.businessfinland.com/companies/v/valossa-labs-oy/.
- ↑ "Valossa - Startup100". https://startup100.net/company/valossa.
- ↑ "About Valossa - Valossa - Video Image Speech and Audio Recognition AI". March 13, 2024. https://valossa.com/about-valossa/.
- ↑ "Transcribe Video with Computer Vision and Speech to Text AI". March 6, 2024. https://valossa.com/transcribe-pro-vision-caption-translate-log-video/.
- ↑ "Brand-safe contextual video advertising – Valossa Ad Scout™". March 4, 2024. https://valossa.com/ad-scout-brand-safe-contextual-advertising/.
- ↑ "Clip promo videos and highlights with Valossa Auto Preview". March 4, 2024. https://valossa.com/auto-preview-highlights-clipping-ai/.
- ↑ Oy, Valossa Labs (September 6, 2017). "Valossa™ Announces $2 Million Round From Leading European Media Investors". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release).
- ↑ "Why we invested: Valossa". September 6, 2017. https://www.01ventures.com/01vc/2017/9/6/why-we-invested-valossa.
- ↑ "Finnish Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment Supports Novel Innovations to Automate Video Production - Valossa - Video Image Speech and Audio Recognition AI". June 10, 2024. https://valossa.com/2024/06/finnish-centre-for-economic-development-transport-and-the-environment-supports-novel-innovations-to-automate-video-production/.
- ↑ "Valossa Archives". February 19, 2018. https://www.chrispfafftechmedia.com/tag/valossa/.
- ↑ "Gartner selected Valossa as a Gartner Cool Vendor 2018 - Valossa - Video Image Speech and Audio Recognition AI". May 11, 2018. https://valossa.com/2018/05/gartner-selected-valossa-as-a-gartner-cool-vendor-2018/.
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