CopySight, an AI IP governance company, announced a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital. The round included participation from Taisu VC, Flint Capital, and Yellow Rocks!.
The company also launched CopyScore V2, extending its copyright and likeness risk-scoring platform from AI-generated images into video. CopySight said the funding will be used to scale its proprietary scoring architecture deeper into enterprise video production pipelines.
Since January 2026, the platform has processed more than 87,000 copyright and IP risk checks across studio, platform, legal, and enterprise workflows, a 25x increase in usage over that period. CopySight classifies risk across five categories: trademarks, characters, brand and iconic designs, celebrity likenesses, and art and styles. Every assessment is recorded in an immutable chain-of-creation log.
With CopyScore V2, CopySight analyzes video content frame by frame, comparing characters, faces, logos, and styles against reference libraries. The system combines those signals with prompts, model versions, and generation settings to flag potential risk in milliseconds. It can identify transient risks, such as a logo appearing briefly in the background or a split-second celebrity likeness match.
CopySight was founded by technical and creative teams from Snap, Apple, and Meta. The company is working with major Hollywood studios on IP hygiene, review, and validation workflows. Its customers, partners, and platform users include AGBO, ArentFox Schiff, and OpenArt.
KEY QUOTES:
We see CopySight as defining the IP layer for generative AI and modern content creation. AI cannot scale without trust. They are addressing the essential capabilities around risk and ownership that will only become more critical as AI evolves.
David Borcsok, Partner at Mucker Capital
AI has completely unlocked how we create, but hitting a piece of protected IP is just a factual reality of the process right now. We built CopySight to clear the path for it. Foundational models, Hollywood studios, individual creators, everyone downstream needs the exact same thing: objective proof that what they just made is safe to ship. We want AI to scale, reach its potential, and we are here to help protect everyone on that mission.
Artem Petrov, Co-Founder and CEO of CopySight
