InfiniMind
Category: Computer Vision
AI infrastructure that transforms enterprise video archives into structured, searchable business intelligence. InfiniMind was founded in 2024. The company is led by Aza Kai. Based in Palo Alto, CA, USA (Tokyo, Japan office). Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $5.8M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include UTEC (The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners, lead), CX2 (Cox Exponential), Headline Asia Ventures, Chiba Dojo, an AI researcher affiliated with a16z Scout.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, CA, USA (Tokyo, Japan office)
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $5.8M
Value proposition
Turns unviewed petabytes of video/audio 'dark data' into structured, queryable business insights using long-context video reasoning AI.
Products and solutions
DeepFrame (long-form video intelligence platform, processes 200+ hours of footage to pinpoint scenes/speakers/events), TVPulse, conversational BI over video, semantic retrieval, anomaly detection, proactive alerts.
Unique value
Long-context reasoning across hours (not seconds) of footage, domain-specific fine-tuned adapters, structured SQL-ready output from raw video, VPC/air-gapped deployment for data sovereignty.
Target customer
Enterprises in media & broadcasting, retail, security/defense, logistics & manufacturing with large unanalyzed video archives.
Industries served
Media & Broadcasting, Retail, Security & Defense, Logistics & Manufacturing
Technology advantage
Proprietary long-context video AI engine tracking cause-and-effect across hours of footage vs. generic models limited to ~30 seconds; 10x faster than realtime processing; 1/4 the cost of generic solutions.
How they differentiate
Focuses specifically on enterprise use cases (monitoring, safety, security, operational analytics) with long-context causal reasoning over hours of footage, vs. general-purpose video search APIs.
Main competitors
Twelve Labs, Google Video Intelligence API, Azure Video Indexer
Key partnerships
AWS Startup Programs / AWS Generative AI Accelerator, Google for Startups Cloud Program, NVIDIA Inception Program, GENIAC (Japan METI x NEDO Generative AI Accelerator Challenge)
Major milestones
Founded/full-scale start Nov 2024 by ex-Google Japan leaders (as SDio; rebranded to Infinimind Japan Inc. Jan 2026), TVPulse launched Apr 2025 with paying media/wholesale customers, raised $5.8M seed Feb 2026 led by UTEC, selected for AWS Generative AI Accelerator, NVIDIA Inception, Google for Startups Cloud, GENIAC, DeepFrame in public beta (2026) with free trial and commercial plans, released NARU Bench (Jun 2026) with University of Tokyo under GENIAC, 1st prize + $100K OpenAI API credits at Series T / OpenAI pitch contest IVS Kyoto (Jul 2026)
Growth metrics
100,000+ hours of video analyzed; processes footage 10x faster than realtime; DeepFrame now in beta with free trial and paid Team/Pro/Enterprise plans.
Market positioning
Enterprise AI infrastructure layer for video 'dark data', positioned between raw video storage and BI tools.
Geographic focus
Japan and United States (U.S. HQ in Palo Alto, CA; Tokyo office retained)
About Aza Kai
Ex-Google/YouTube Video AI lead (~decade at Google Japan across cloud, ML, ads, video recommendations); also Rakuten experience per UTEC portfolio bio.
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Official website: https://infinimind.io