Tyvaka
Tyvaka is a media technology company that digitizes and annotates archived corporate, nonprofit, and government media so it can be searched, using proprietary software that combines facial recognition and automatic transcription. At the time of its January 2017 debut interview, it was pre-revenue with under $10,000 in total revenue, having raised about $20K of founder money and a sub-$50K seed round. Its growth strategy centered on pursuing large enterprise clients.
Co-founder Dr. Elizabeth Peria and Kaplan set out to solve the problem that organizations own valuable archived media but cannot quickly search or use it, and that existing digital asset management software leaves the heavy lifting to the client.
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