Clipto reached a $250M valuation on $15M ARR with fully local video indexing and an MCP server.

The three-year-old startup raised $15 million all-equity led by HSG at $250 million post-money (TechCrunch). It indexes video, audio, images, meetings and documents entirely on-device with no cloud dependency and exposes the index over MCP so ChatGPT and Claude can query it. 30 million users, just over 20 employees, profitable on net income before the round. Local-first plus MCP as the integration surface is a shape I expect to see repeated.