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We’ve ranked the top 28 Image Recognition companies in San Francisco, California. The companies, startups and institutions listed in this article are all exceptional companies, well worth a follow. We have included links to their websites, socials and CrunchBase (if you’re interested in their financials).
We selected the organisations listed in this article based on:
- Track record
- Executive leadership
- Market share
- Innovation
- ESG rating
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Top Image Recognition Companies & Startups (San Francisco, California)
Catch&Release
Catch&Release is end-to-end content licensing platform that enables brands and advertisers to license content from anywhere on the internet.
Founder(s): Analisa Goodin, Ross Dabrow
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Content, Image Recognition, Marketing
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Scale AI
Scale AI is the data platform for AI, providing high quality training data for leading machine learning teams.
Founder(s): Alexandr Wang, Lucy Guo
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Machine Learning, SaaS
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Cyberdontics
Developer of an image guided robotic restorative dentistry platform – for crowns and fillings.
Founder(s): Chris Ciriello, Scott Phillips
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Dental, Health Care, Image Recognition, Robotics
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Mavrx
Mavrx uses imagery and data to bring actionable insights to the global agriculture industry.
Founder(s): Alexey Rostapshov, Max Bruner, Yuan Gao
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Agriculture, Analytics, Image Recognition, Robotics
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Tempus Ex
Tempus Ex merge AI, ML, and data science technologies to delivers cutting-edge solutions that aim to change the sports experience.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Software
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Capella Space
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 24/7 SAR data for government and commercial customers.
Founder(s): Payam Banazadeh, Uri Tintore, Will Woods
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Aerospace, Geospatial, Image Recognition, Information Services
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Narrative
Narrative provides hardware and software tools for automatic visual storytelling and known for the wearable camera narrative clip.
Founder(s): Björn Wesén, Martin Källström, Oskar Kalmaru, Sebastian Björkelid, Simon Pantzare
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Hardware, Image Recognition, Software, Wearables
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Neon Labs
Neon provides a visual content performance platform to help customers identify images that improve user click rates.
Founder(s): Sophie Lebrecht, Sunil Mallya
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Internet, Software
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Shazura
AI Visual Intelligence: image recognition & visual search through Natural Learning Fingerprints that mirror the human brain
Founder(s): Sira Coba
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Image Recognition, Personalization, Retail Technology, Search Engine, Video, Visual Search
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Reveel Technologies
The first platform that provides audiences an interactive experience from print, digital, video and broadcast media. Explore, learn and buy!
Founder(s): Aljaz Andrejas, Kristijan Puksic, Matija Vrbovsek, Rok Ajdnik
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Advertising Platforms, Broadcasting, Computer Vision, Digital Media, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Image Recognition, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Apps, Outdoor Advertising, Publishing, Retail Technology, Social Media Advertising, Video Advertising
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CrowdAI
CrowdAI enables organizations to create and deploy custom models for visual AI and a code-free platform.
Founder(s): Devaki Raj, Nicolas Borensztein, Pablo Garcia
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Geospatial, Image Recognition, Machine Learning
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Grokstyle
Grokstyle develops an app that automatically identifies furniture and home decor from just about any picture or angle.
Founder(s): Kavita Bala, Sean Bell
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Developer APIs, Furniture, Image Recognition, Interior Design, Machine Learning, Software, Visual Search
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Enlitic
Enlitic builds AI deep learning products to streamline radiologists’ workflows and improve healthcare diagnosis.
Founder(s): Jeremy Howard, Kevin Lyman
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Trials, Health Care, Image Recognition, Machine Learning, Medical Device, Natural Language Processing, Predictive Analytics, Software
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Paravision
Mission-critical computer vision
Founder(s): Andrew Dudum, Charlie Melbye, Don Holly, Jon Mumm
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Artificial Intelligence, Facial Recognition, Image Recognition, Machine Learning, Software, Visual Search, Web Apps
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Cognitive Networks
Cognitive Networks enables content providers, advertisers, and others to provide greater engagement and interactivity to TV programming.
Founder(s): Michael Collette, Zeev Neumeier
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Consumer Electronics, Image Recognition, TV
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Lumific
Lumific is a photo editing and photo curation software.
Founder(s): Desmond Chik, Jonathan Wills
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Computer Vision, Image Recognition, Internet, Photo Editing, Photo Sharing, Photography, Semantic Search, Software
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PICT
PICT builds a “shoppable photo” technology platform, enabling them to turn a normal photo into a content-rich, e-commerce-enabled photo.
Founder(s): Brent Locks, gregory nicholas, Kele Dobrinski
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, File Sharing, Image Recognition, Photography
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Hometapper
Hometapper is a social real estate magazine for tablets and smartphones.
Founder(s): George Hart
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Image Recognition, Real Estate
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Bink! Inc.
An image recognition mobile game where player scan logos around them generating unique data about where brands are seen in the real world.
Founder(s): Mikhail Ivanov, Slava Chernikoff, Thomas Speckman, Yury Akinin
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Analytics, Big Data, Brand Marketing, Image Recognition, Mobile, Mobile Advertising, Outdoor Advertising, SaaS
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Digital Perception
Digital Perception lets people know where their images are on the Internet and Social Media.
Founder(s): Aaron Byrne, Liam Brennan, Shourjya Sanyal
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Advertising, Apps, Image Recognition, Social Media, Software
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Secret Sauce Partners
Secret Sauce Partners – transforming apparel & footwear shopping through data
Founder(s): Peter Orban, Zoli Piroska
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Big Data, E-Commerce, Fashion, Image Recognition, Mobile, Retail Technology
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Lux Optics
Lux Optics is a studio reimagining what photography looks like in the 21st century.
Founder(s): Benjamin Sandofsky, Sebastiaan de With
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Image Recognition, Mobile Apps, Photography
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DataSet Analysis
DSA is an early stage medtech startup company that aims to bring research and diagnostics software to the business market.
Founder(s): Alex Matov, Andreas Niethammer, George Harb, Olga Samarina
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Augmented Reality, Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Enterprise Software, Image Recognition, Personal Health
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Getfugu
GetFugu is a technology company focused on developing mobile search tools.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Ad Targeting, Advertising, Augmented Reality, Data Visualization, Image Recognition, Mobile, Software
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Fitroom
Fitroom is an Image Search Engine, enabling retailers to best match consumer’s needs to their available inventory.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: E-Commerce, Fashion, Furniture, Image Recognition, Price Comparison, Search Engine, Shopping
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CogniSign
CogniSign is a software company that offers image recognition software for image and video search and content management solutions.
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Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Image Recognition, Software
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Woolah
Share what you love to do, see how world is doing that.
Founder(s): Matt Shams (Anis)
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Image Recognition, Social
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AffectSense
AffectSense develops a platform that understands emotions of users.
Founder(s):
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Industries: Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Facial Recognition, Image Recognition, Intelligent Systems, Speech Recognition
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