A Brunswick startup is launching a platform that turns studio videos into structured datasets.
Versos AI, based in Saint John, N.B., has launched a platform designed to help movie studios and content creators monetize their video libraries for AI training.
Last week, Versos announced the rollout of its Video Library Intelligence Platform. It helps transform video content into structured datasets that AI companies can license to train AI models. According to Versos, the platform indexes videos at the frame level and transforms complete video libraries into searchable, AI-enabled datasets. The startup claims that the software is the first end-to-end product of its kind.
“Versos AI” [makes] Video data is searchable, licensable, and ready for model development. ”
Chris Keevil, Versos
“Until now, there has been no purpose-built solution to transform unstructured video libraries into structured datasets suitable for hyperscale AI training,” Versos co-founder and CEO Chris Keevill said in a statement. “Versos AI bridges that gap by making video data searchable, licensable, and ready for model development.”
Founded in 2023, Versos also develops a video training data marketplace aimed at connecting studios and AI model developers seeking access to traceable, rights-cleared video for training purposes. The startup currently works with more than 20 film studios and content creators in Canada, the US, the UK, France, Germany, India, and China.
As companies like Cohere and OpenAI face lawsuits over their AI training methods for alleged copyright violations, Versos is betting that model developers will want to buy video training data they know they have the right to use by helping studios monetize their existing libraries.
In late 2025, Versos closed a $1.85 million seed round led by Innovobot Resonance Ventures and New Brunswick Innovation Foundation to build a video training data marketplace. Charlottetown-based Island Capital Partners, Toronto’s RiSC Capital and the University of Waterloo’s Velocity Fund also participated.
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The launch of the Video Library Intelligence Platform is supported by a multi-year commercial partnership with Curiosity Stream. Curiosity Stream, a Nasdaq-listed US streaming platform focused on documentaries, has also invested an undisclosed amount in Versos. According to Versos, Curiosity Stream leverages Versos’ technology to generate “scene-level video intelligence” that meets advanced AI dataset requirements.
CuriosityStream President and CEO Clint Stinchcomb said in a statement that the company is seeing “extraordinary demand” from major hyperscalers and AI innovators for high-quality, structured video and metadata.
Stinchcomb said CuriosityStream’s partnership with Versos allows it to seize that opportunity by combining the streaming platform’s library of more than 2.5 million hours of video and audio with Versos’ distribution and indexing capabilities.
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