OZU builds video products to understand and explore stories at scale.

We're a remote-first startup based in Brooklyn NY and backed by angels, VCs, and entrepreneurs from Figma, Atlassian, Runway, NVIDIA, and Maximum Effort.

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Why we were inspired to build OZU

We love great scenes in TV and Film, and we wanted a new way to find share and create with them.

We want to live in a world where there are more TV shows and films being made - not less. We believe moments and scenes can be a new way to make money for filmmakers, writers, artists, and studios - and could even help bring the industry back to growth.

We love discovering new stories, filmmakers, actors - and we think we've found the start of a new way.

More video is watched around the world than ever. Billions of hours. What if our collective memory for the world's films and tv shows could be explored?

We hope you enjoy OZU.

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For Industry

To the talented writers, directors, actors and crews, the filmmakers and studios, and the streamers, OZU's roots are in filmmaking and we're here to help you find a new way to make money from your library, insights from your work, grow your audience, your subscriber base, and promote new work. Please take a look at our Industry page to learn more.

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The Beginning
We're long-time computational cinema nerds obsessed with building creative tools. We love real-time video, creative flow, and think there's so much more that can be unlocked by technology.
2020
We trained and deployed our own ML models to understand cinematography and editing. We launched projects for HBO and Michael Kors, like connecting HBO's episodic archives to cameras and video walls so users could move and speak and see matching shots playback from HBO's library; and turning a live Michael Kors runway show into 400 edited videos with individual Final Cut Pro project files ready to go so editors could fine tune them.
2023
We released the Precorder - a Mac App for running OZU models locally on Apple Silicon to turn huge video archives into structured data. With it, users could take 1000 hours of video, and in a couple days, without spending money on compute, they could search through, edit with, and create videos from their archive.
2024
We demoed the Precorder in Feb 2024 live at Figma AI in NYC which led to a new round of funding and design partners. More demos at events and gatherings across the city helped us recruit new users and confirm the power and potential of blending real-time video search, editing, and curation across massive video libraries.
2025
OZU releases OZU.ai - the first video search engine for Moments from film and tv shows - built using our Mac-based Precorder.

A new way to explore and discover film and tv