Inside Vivilo's €628K Pre-Seed Round: The Italian Startup Making Every Event Attendee the Star

The content gold rush at live events just gained a sharper AI edge. Italian startup Vivilo, previously known as Jubatus, has announced a €628,000 pre-seed funding round to accelerate its computer-vision platform that automatically transforms raw event footage into personalised highlight reels for every participant .

The round, announced on 3 June 2026, is distinct because it was backed not by traditional venture capital firms but by a group of Italian individual investors: entrepreneurs, executives, engineers, lawyers, and technology professionals . This syndicate-style backing is a telling vote of confidence from industry insiders for a company that is, remarkably, already profitable at the pre-seed stage.

From marathon runner to music fan — AI for everyone

Vivilo’s core proposition is simple but technically demanding. Its proprietary AI scans thousands of hours of photo and video footage from an event to identify individual participants. It doesn't just match faces; the platform is trained to recognise race numbers, specific objects, and vehicles . This makes it equally suited for a marathon runner wanting their finish-line photo and a motorsport fan wanting a clip of their car on the track.

The company's own benchmarks claim a 98.9% AI recognition precision rate, and a strict 12-hour service-level agreement to deliver all personalised content after an event concludes .

While officially positioned as being "designed" for sports and motorsport verticals , Vivilo’s website signals broader commercial ambitions. The company lists use cases that span the entire event spectrum, including music festivals, trade fairs, concerts, and community gatherings .

The €628K strategy: marketing, motorsport, and team

At this early stage, the use of funds reveals the company's immediate priorities as much as the cheque size. Vivilo plans to channel the pre-seed capital into four specific areas :

• Marketing: Building brand awareness across its target event verticals.
• Platform Development: Enhancing the core AI and user experience.
• Team Expansion: Growing the talent base to support scaling operations.
• Advancing Motorsport Recognition: A dedicated push to refine its technology for the high-speed, technically complex motorsport environment.

The motorsport angle is particularly interesting. Identifying a specific blur of a car or a helmeted driver at 200 km/h represents a more extreme computer-vision challenge than a smiling face at a wedding, and perfecting it could become a significant technical moat.

Profitable, European, and eyeing the US

In a funding environment where path-to-profitability questions dominate, Vivilo stands out. Tech.eu reports that the startup is already profitable — a detail that likely made the decision easier for its angel backers and gives the team a stronger hand when negotiating future institutional rounds.

Geographically, Vivilo is not thinking small. Having established its base in Italy, the company is actively scaling across Europe . More significantly, Vivilo has explicitly stated it has "ambitions to enter the US market" . For now, these transatlantic plans remain a stated ambition, with no specific timeline or US-based operational partners disclosed publicly.

For a young company that has just closed a €628K round, the story so far is one of capital efficiency: a profitable business, a technical edge in multi-modal AI recognition, and a clear line of sight from local 5K runs to the global events industry, one personalised photo at a time.