Video Notebook is a suite of AI-powered apps used by 100K+ students and adult learners to capture important contents of videos, classes, meetings, and webinars. The Video Notebook browser extension and Zoom app enable users to take timestamped screenshots and notes while watching videos (on YouTube, Udemy, Coursera, and Vimeo) or attending meetings and webinars (on Zoom and Google Meet). Video Notebook’s web app then allows users to organize and revise their notes from all video and meeting platforms, as well share them with their colleagues or friends.
The company’s apps use a computer vision technology which automatically recognizes slides in videos and meetings, and adds them to the list of notes. The company also uses large language models to generate text notes for videos and meetings.
Video Notebook was founded in 2021 by Mike Lanza in Menlo Park, California, USA. It is the seventh company that Mike has started, and it is his fifth Silicon Valley-based software startup. He sold two of those to public companies for successful exits, including Click.TV, a video annotation software company that he sold to Cisco Systems in 2007. Mike is inventor or co-inventor of four patents, including one from his Click.TV work. Mike holds four degrees from Stanford University - an MBA, an MA in Education, and a BA and MA in Economics.
Video Notebook's clients include Ernst & Young. The company's advisory board includes academics, AI technology experts, and former Google and Meta employees. Video Notebook has a distributed development, marketing, and design team based in the USA, EU, and India.