Video collection start-up Vouch raises $8M seed

Start-up video collection platform Vouch has secured an $8 million over-subscribed seed round.

Vouch co-founders, David Stirk and Gary Zurnamer

VC funds OIF Ventures and Stage 2 Capital led the round, alongside angel investors including Twitter global product lead Oji Udezue and Archangel Ventures partner Rayn Ong.

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Vouch is working to allow users to create videos at scale, where using its Q&A platform, questions for video testimonials, feedback and internal communications can be shared using a single recorder link with multiple respondents.

Videos can be downloaded and automatically transcribed, before embedding into platforms including Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hubspot.

According to Gary Zurnamer, Vouch co-founder and CEO, the company has seen exponential growth in the last year.

“Thousands of teams, across 82 countries have used it to create videos that have been watched more than 100,000 times. We’ve focused on building a great product that has been tested and validated on a global stage,” said Zurnamer.

“Now, with this support and funding, Vouch is well positioned to lead the video software category, reaching even more teams and giving them an easy way to capture and share video, whatever their use case.”

Laurence Shwartz, from OIF Ventures said that Vouch is providing an answer to the high demand to scale-out video at a low cost.

“Video provides significant ROI, but while demand continues to grow across all business functions, production methods remain slow and expensive. Vouch is the first team to address this problem and their customers are constantly discovering new use cases,” he said.

Vouch has attracted over 5000 users since its launch in 2021, with customers including Atlassian, Canva, Dropbox and Culture Amp.

According to Deb Mavric, data and innovation director at Culture Amp, “We needed to gather video testimonials for a global event. Text wasn’t engaging enough and traditional video was way too hard to coordinate. We used Vouch and the response was amazing. Since then, its use has grown around the business. We now use it to capture video from our customers, community and team.”

The capital raised will be directed to accelerate the company’s roadmap and scale its Australian and US team.