Oriane receives 1.5 million US dollars

The AI startup Oriane.xyz has raised 1.5 million US dollars in a financing round. The round was led by Clint Capital (FR), followed by Hartmann Capital (US), Secways (ES), Archipelago Next (IC) and business angels from Google, PayPal, Sony and Jellysmack. The aim of the company is to build the first AI-supported search engine for the video-centric internet.

Video dominates the web, but search remains a black box

According to Cisco, videos will account for over 91% of global internet traffic by 2024. More than 500 hours per minute are uploaded to YouTube alone. Short videos are the most successful content format on the social web, but findability and tracking remain patchy. Content is often shared, remixed or re-uploaded without a source or rights notice. For brands, IP owners and creators, this creates a blind spot with significant cultural and financial consequences.

The semantic internet became searchable with Google. But 90% of today's content is video - and it remains largely invisible. Oriane makes them discoverable and puts brands and creatives back in control.

Julien Rosilio, co-founder of Oriane

Multimodal AI analyzes content like a human

Oriane's platform not only captures metadata, but also directly analyzes images, sound, language, faces and brands. Millions of videos can be indexed in seconds with significantly reduced computing costs. This gives brands, media companies and rights holders precise insights into where and how their content is being reused.

Oriane sees videos the way people do - delivering relevant search results from millions of clips.

Yuri Mihaileanu, Co-Founder Oriane

Support from global programs and partners

In addition to capital investors, Oriane also has access to strategic programs. In fall 2025, the startup will launch in LVMH's La Maison des Startups accelerator. It will also receive support from NVIDIA for technology development and infrastructure.

Investors focus on new internet infrastructure

For the investors, Oriane marks the next logical step in the AI-driven transformation of the network.

• Clint Capital: Oriane will become the search and analysis layer of the video internet, creating added value for rights holders and creators alike.
• Hartmann Capital: The combination of generative AI and short-form video will create a new infrastructure that gives brands real-time tools to manage and protect their presence.

Global positioning right from the start

Oriane was founded in 2025 and already operates out of the USA, London, Paris and Barcelona. The founding team includes:

• Julien Rosilio - Serial Entrepreneur, ex-DRESSX
• Yuri Mihaileanu - product and video expert, ex-Jellysmack

The Advisory Board is made up of experienced international executives from Meta, Publicis, DRESSX and World of Women.

Oriane is developing an AI-based search engine for the video internet. The multimodal technology makes millions of videos discoverable across platforms and provides brands, creators and IP owners with transparency, insights and protection in a video-first world.

Comment: Video Abmahn Ki?

Personally, I find the idea exciting, but to my ears it sounds like an AI-based warning machine. It also remains to be seen which platforms or uploaders actually grant Oriane the rights to search their content and how this is legally classified in Germany. A negative example of this is YouTube's content ID system, which is repeatedly misused and is sometimes diametrically opposed to German citation law. Not to mention the automated false-positive assessments that regularly occur.

What about the "right to memes", parodies and pastiches? Artificial intelligence has so far performed very poorly in this area in particular. Small creators in particular are often the victims of automated systems, as they often lack the financial means to legally enforce their rights.

Of course, brand owners and creators should protect their rights. However, if, as described by Oriane, it is primarily about video content that is difficult to find, this sounds more like a hunt for the small fish of content piracy rather than the big players.