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Shofo — Startup ProfileCommon Crawl for VideoHQ: San Francisco, CA, United States | Founded: 2025 | Employees: 4 | Stage: Seed | Website: https://www.shofo.aiAboutShofo is building what it describes as the world's largest indexed video library—a 'Common Crawl for video.' It continuously crawls billions of short-form clips from platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, then runs them through a pipeline that sanitizes, deduplicates, segments and labels footage with object detection, activity recognition and reasoning annotations. Shofo sells custom, ready-to-train datasets to AI labs, delivering a request like '100K hours of cooking videos where someone is holding a pan' in days rather than months.Key Metrics

Total Funding: $500K (YC standard)

Last Round: Seed (YC W26)

Founded: 2025

Headcount: 4

Y Combinator Batch: Winter 2026

Videos Indexed: Billions

Funding Rounds

Round: $500K (2026-01-01) — Y Combinator

Key People

Braiden Dishman

Alexzendor Misra

Andre Braga

Bryan Hong

Key Competitors

Common Crawl —

Scale AI —

Timeline Highlights

2026-01-22: YC W26 Launch

2025-01-01: Shofo Founded

2024-01-01: Correkt Founded

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