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做的是什么生意

Clouted is short-video marketing infrastructure for consumer and entertainment brands: outsourced editors cut clips, while AI handles distribution strategy and platform placement and automatically tests what content can go viral.

启动资金：$7M seed round in May 2026, led by Slow Ventures, with participation from Gold House Ventures, Weekend Fund, Peak XV Surge, AppWorks, a16z Speedrun, and others.

起因

In 2024, Filipino founders Justin Banusing and Adriel Yong founded Clouted and entered the a16z Speedrun accelerator the same year. Banusing himself is a DJ and first used the company's own technology to bring the Manila electronic music festival &Friends to 20,000+ attendees, validating that clipping plus distribution had a real market.

经过

The platform connects to a network of 100,000+ freelance editors to perform clipping, while AI continuously tests different formats, channels, and audiences, accumulating distribution data on what content will go viral. It has already run distribution campaigns for brands such as Lionsgate and Zedd. In May 2026, it closed a $7M seed round led by Slow Ventures.

结果

Still operating: in August 2026, it was named to Forbes Asia 100 to Watch (Enterprise Technology/AI category), with headquarters in Manila and Los Angeles, and benchmarks itself against marketing infrastructure companies such as CreatorIQ and Hightouch.

可借鉴之处

先自己用，再卖给别人。Clouted 的冷启动来自创始人自己的音乐节，先证明产品并收集数据，再对外销售。