This week Memories.ai has been named to Sifted’s AI 100 list of Europe’s most promising AI startups for 2025. The nod caps a busy year for the research lab, which came out of stealth with an $8M seed round and has been staffing up with senior researchers.
Memories.ai is developing a large visual memory model (LVMM), a layer that lets AI keep context from video over long stretches of time. The company says its platform has indexed more than 1 million hours of footage and is used by customers including Samsung, Aosu, PixVerse, and Viggle to search, compare, and analyze video for security, media, marketing, and robotics work.
“We’re honored to be included in Sifted’s AI 100 alongside so many other innovative companies,” said co-founder and CEO Dr. Shawn Shen. He added that the company plans to announce new partnerships, products, and financial milestones in the coming months.
The startup has also been busy on the partnership and hiring fronts. Recent collaborators include Runware, Kyoso, Prolific, HeyBoss.ai, and Rokid AR. Memories.ai hired former Meta researcher Chi-Hao (Eddy) Wu as chief AI officer and launched a hiring program offering up to $2M to recruit top AI talent.
Why it matters: most AI systems are built around text, which is easier to store and query but loses the dense context found in video. If LVMM works at scale, it could give models a persistent “visual memory” that’s useful for tasks where continuity and long-term recall are critical.
Sifted’s list also features Granola, Fyxer.ai, Encord, and others—an annual snapshot of where early European AI energy is flowing. For Memories.ai, the recognition adds outside validation as it pushes a video-native memory layer into real products.
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