The Kansas City region’s investment community is showing strong support for dScribe AI, an Overland Park tech startup. dScribe AI unlocks valuable insights from online videos and other media, and its team of three Kansas City founders are enthusiastic to see local talent attracting capital that often flows to coastal tech hubs.
A pre-seed investment of $1.2 million is set to fuel dScribe AI’s growth. The funding was secured with contributions from leading Kansas City venture firms, including KCRise Fund, Abstraction Capital, and Flyover Capital, along with Redbud VC and EquipmentShare, located in Columbia, Missouri. Liam Reilly, principal and general counsel for KCRise Fund, noted that this marks the first joint investment these firms have made.
“They’re excited to foster the next generation of entrepreneurial talent, especially in tech,” said Jordan Mryyan, co-founder and CEO of dScribe. “We all kind of embody that vibe and energy that I think they want to help foster in the community.”
“There’s a ton of talent and good ideas from Kansas City, but almost all the funding typically goes to coastal startups,” added Cole Robertson, dScribe co-founder and CTO. “A lot of the people we got funding from in this area were like, ‘Hey, we find talent where it is and there’s a ton of talent in the Midwest.’ So we’re really grateful to see that appreciation and we’re excited to grow the tech scene in this area, as well.”
Launched in September 2024, dScribe AI is working to transform how developers and businesses take advantage of the potential of video and other rich-media content. The company is building a platform and application programming interface (API). This tool seamlessly transforms video from various sources. These sources include media platforms and enterprise data. This transformation provides actionable insights, according to the startup. Software and enterprise applications are currently using dScribe AI. These users unlock new capabilities.
“What excites me most about dScribe AI is how they’ve cracked the code on making internet video and multimedia content truly accessible and actionable,” explained Taylor Clauson, managing partner at Abstraction Capital, in a news release. “The infrastructure the team has built is the next evolution of harnessing video data wherever it lives, whether online, in enterprise systems, or beyond.”
Nirain Patel, product manager at Pulsar Platform, a publicly traded audience intelligence and social listening provider and a dScribe AI customer, shared:
“With dScribe AI, we’ve redefined the way we extract insights from online video content. Our integration now allows us to unlock direct insights from millions of videos posted daily across social platforms. By simply providing a social video URL, we capture both visual and audio details, ensuring no critical insight is overlooked.”
Mryyan, who is an engineer, has a long-standing interest in how AI can be integrated with video. He began developing tools to leverage video data from the internet. The complex and cumbersome nature of the process led Mryyan and co-founders Robertson and Warren Wang to establish dScribe AI.
“This insight led me and my co-founders to speak with developers and companies across industries, where we found a consistent trend: video data is crucial to their operations, yet there’s no straightforward way to harness it,” he added in a news release.
Using the pre-seed funding, Wang said dScribe intends to improve its technology and expand its product offerings. They also aim to cultivate customer growth and strengthen strategic partnerships.
