Top 127 Computer Vision startups

Updated: Feb 20, 2026
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These companies develop new computer vision technologies, train CV models, create CV platforms and APIs or specific applications that allow to detect object on images or generate images.
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Verkada
Country: USA | Funding: $814.3M
Verkada is a cloud-based AI-platform for video surveillance, access control and other physical security applications. It offers a variety of AI-powered analytics tools for searching people (by face) and vehicles, enables creation of security alerts based on AI-powered search queries, reconstructs the entire movement path of multiple people and vehicles across an area, and uses computer vision technologies to better understand traffic patterns, sales conversion rates, customer dwell times and much more. It's possible to link real-time POS system data or step-by-step operational processes directly to Verkada cameras. Data is processed and stored both on the camera and in a secure cloud, enabling advanced analytics with low latency and system management from virtually anywhere.
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Carbon Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $163.9M
Carbon Robotics creates agricultural robot LaserWeeder, which recognizes weeds using computer vision and destroys them with a laser. The robot is mounted on a combine harvester and receives information from a camera system. The company has developed an artificial intelligence model - Large Plant Model (LPM), which allows farmers to identify and destroy new weeds without reprogramming/retraining robots. LPM was trained on over 150 million photos and data collected by the company's machines on more than 100 farms in 15 countries where the robots are currently operating. This model now forms the basis of Carbon AI, the artificial intelligence system that serves as the "brain" of the company's autonomous weed-killing robots. Carbon Robotics has also created its own autonomous tractor - LaserWeeder.
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RealSense
Country: USA | Funding: $50M
RealSense develops and manufactures 3D computer vision cameras that enable humanoid robots to perceive the world similar to how humans use their eyes and depth perception. Its depth-camera supports Power over Ethernet and has built-in AI chip for image processing. The startup is an Intel spinoff and has a strategic partnership with NVIDIA (to create an AI robotic platform Jetson Thor Series). The company develops computer vision systems for robotics in various sectors, including healthcare, industrial automation and security. RealSense also partners with several companies to produce glasses for the blind, including Eyesynth.
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Metropolis
Country: USA | Funding: $3.5B
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
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SenseTime
Country: China | Funding: $2.9B
SenseTime is a leading Chinese company developing AI applications for various industries. It provides a cloud for creating AI systems – SenseCore AI, develops medical image analysis system, generative AI for business - SenseChat, image generation service SenseMirage, digital avatar generator SenseAvatar, intelligent programming assistant Code Raccoon, intelligent office assistant Office Raccoon, self-driving car autopilot, augmented reality systems and facial recognition technology. SenseTime Research is one of the most active authors of papers in the field of ML and AGI (that the company defines as fusion of multiple specialized AI services). The company has its own data center infrastructure and collaborates with dozens of leading universities and research institutes worldwide.
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Megvii
Country: China | Funding: $1.4B
Megvii develops Face++ Cognitive Services - a platform offering computer vision technologies that enable your applications to read and understand the world better. Face++ allows you to easily add leading, deep learning-based image analysis recognition technologies into your applications, with simple and powerful APIs and SDKs.
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Shield AI
Country: USA | Funding: $1.3B
Shield AI is developing X-BAT - large, AI-controlled vertical takeoff and landing fighter jet, as well as the Hivemind - intelligent platform for military applications. X-BAT has a 12-meter wingspan, a maximum range of 2,000 nautical miles, and a 4G maneuvering load factor. It can carry combat missiles and take off and land from ships, remote islands or rugged forward bases, eliminating dependence on traditional infrastructure. Its AI autopilot can operate in conditions of GPS and communications interference. The company is collaborating with the US Department of Defense to develop next-generation intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems. Its Vidar multi-camera system, with day and night vision cameras and sensors, is installed on reconnaissance drones for edge video analytics and mapping. The company is also developing Tracker C-UAS, an intelligent software solution for the early detection of drones in air defense systems using video from electro-optical and infrared sensors.
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Trax
Country: Singapore | Funding: $1.1B
Trax is developing a system for stores that uses computer vision to collect real-time data on product availability on shelves, coolers, displays, bar taps, back rooms and in the inventory. After uploading images to the Trax cloud, every pixel is analyzed and products are identified using a comprehensive stock-keeping unit (SKU) database. The system verifies product placement and arrangement, comparing them with planograms and key performance indicators (KPIs). The system converts shelf data into metrics for performance monitoring, providing retail analytics that enables informed decisions, timely order placement and optimized inventory management. The company is also developing the Shopkick app for customer engagement that is based on geolocation and motivates customers to interact with stores that reward their loyalty.
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AEYE
Country: USA | Funding: $364.1M
AEye develops adaptive, high performance lidar systems for automotive, trucking, smart infrastructure and logistics applications.
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Standard Cognition
Country: USA | Funding: $239.4M
Standard Cognition is an artificial intelligence platform that allows buyers to grab what they want without having to go to a cashier.
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Recogni
Country: USA | Funding: $211.1M
Developer of a visual perception platform designed for autonomous driving.
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Trigo
Country: Israel | Funding: $199M
Trigo is a developer of AI-based automated retail checkout systems.
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Onfido
Country: UK | Funding: $188.8M
Onfido builds trust in an online world by helping businesses digitally verify people's identities. Our Identity Record Check cross-references your users’ details against a range of verified global databases and credit reference agencies.
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Tractable
Country: UK | Funding: $184.9M
Tractable builds deep learning tools for visual inspection that can perform faster, cheaper and more accurately than humans. Their technology automates an expert’s task at near zero marginal cost. Their focus is on computer vision and insurance claims.
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NAUTO
Country: USA | Funding: $173.9M
Nauto is an intelligent camera that protects commercial fleets and keeps drivers safe by preventing collisions before they occur.
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Slingshot Aerospace
Country: USA | Funding: $148.9M
Slingshot Aerospace develops an integrated AI platform for processing real-time and historical satellite data and delivers it to customers via modular APIs, MCP servers or SaaS interfaces. The platform's customers include both space companies requiring data for orbital risk and maneuver planning and ground-based companies for monitoring and planning ground operations (particularly military ops). Slingshot's proprietary sensor network is the world's only day/night optical observation network from low-Earth orbit to geostationary orbit, providing high-frequency observations and tracking in near-real time. The AI ​​model combines historical trends with real-time data to highlight anomalies, detect unexpected events, and identify emerging operational risks early to ensure rapid response and coordination.
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ForwardX Robotics
Country: China | Funding: $137.8M
ForwardX Robotics specializes in R&D of computer vision robots that apply to consumer and business products.
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Airobotics
Country: Israel | Funding: $124.7M
Airobotics provides an end-to-end, fully automatic solution for collecting aerial data and gaining invaluable insights. The industrial grade platform is available on-site and on-demand, enabling industrial facilities to access premium aerial data in a faster, safer, more efficient way.
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Prophesee
Country: France | Funding: $111.4M
Prophesee develops innovative computer vision sensors and systems for applications in all fields of artificial vision. The sensor technology is inspired by biological eyes, acquiring and processing the visual information in an extremely performing yet highly efficient way.
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Twelve Labs
Country: South Korea | Funding: $107.1M
Twelve Labs is helping developers build programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do.
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Roboflow
Country: USA | Funding: $99.7M
Roboflow is a developer tool for building computer vision models faster and more accurately.
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Hawk-Eye Innovations
Country: UK
Hawk-Eye is a British company that develops vision-processing, video replay, and creative graphical technologies for sports.
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Bossa Nova Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $97.6M
Bossa Nova produces robots for retail stores. They scan shelves to help employees with restocking, keep track of where items are located, so you can find your favorite items at any time.
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Plus One Robotics
Country: USA | Funding: $97.1M
Plus One Robotics builds robot perception software and solutions.
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Solink
Country: Canada | Funding: $94.1M
Solink is a provider of video security and business analytics solutions for companies. It includes AI-powered threat identification system, enabling it to recognize potential risks like unauthorized access attempts and break-ins.
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Abacus.AI
Country: USA | Funding: $90.3M
RealityEngines.AI is an AI research company that is focused on hard problems that enterprises have. Today, most North American organizations haven’t managed to deploy AI in production yet. The key reasons behind this include incomplete and noisy datasets, the exorbitant cost of finding, hiring and retaining esoteric talent required to put an AI/ML system in production, and the black box nature of neural-net based AI/ML models that sometimes result in predictions that can’t be explained easily and may introduce bias.
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Everseen
Country: Ireland | Funding: $88.6M
Everseen uses computer vision to prevent theft at self-checkout counters.
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Pano AI
Country: USA | Funding: $89M
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
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OrCam Technologies
Country: Israel | Funding: $86.4M
OrCam harnesses the power of artificial vision in an intuitive portable device that compensates for lost visual abilities.
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Proprio
Country: USA | Funding: $85.1M
Proprio uses machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality user interfaces to improve the accuracy and efficiency of surgery.
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VergeSense
Country: USA | Funding: $82.6M
VergeSense uses machine vision to help businesses better understand how their office spaces are being utilized
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Instrumental
Country: USA | Funding: $80.3M
Instrumental uses vision-powered AI to detect manufacturing anomalies
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Voxel
Country: USA | Funding: $77M
Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time
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NoTraffic
Country: Israel | Funding: $75.7M
NoTraffic develops AI-based traffic management platform
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AnyClip
Country: Israel | Funding: $71M
AnyClip is a video analytics platform that provides media companies with tools to analyze and catalog their video libraries.
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AiCure
Country: USA | Funding: $68.8M
AiCure's intelligent medical assistant, IMA, visually controls that medication is taken.
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Descartes Labs
Country: USA | Funding: $58.3M
Descartes Labs is building a data refinery for satellite imagery. For organizations that want to harness this power and enable computation at global scale, it's necessary to have a data refinery that combines data from multiple sources, cleans it up and makes it ready for science.
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Kinara
Country: USA | Funding: $54M
Built around a patented Polymorphic Dataflow Architecture, supported by a comprehensive SDK, Kinara Ara Edge AI processors accelerate and optimize real-time decision making for unrivaled edge AI solutions. Our Ara AI accelerators power smart edge devices and gateways that demand responsive AI computing with optimal energy efficiency.
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Deep Sentinel
Country: USA | Funding: $53.4M
Deep Sentinel is producing a series of home cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property.
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Daydream
Country: USA | Funding: $50M
Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
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Neuromation
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $50M
Neuromation is a leading Enterprise AI solutions and platform provider. The company's Neuro platform is a best-in-class machine learning development tool enabling rapid model iteration with an unparalleled developer experience.
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EyeNuk
Country: USA | Funding: $47.4M
Eyenuk is a global digital health company and leader in real-world AI eye screening for autonomous disease detection
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MarqVision
Country: USA | Funding: $46.3M
IP Operating System for Brand Professionals that harness AI-powered computer vision to fight counterfeiting and trademark infringement on a global scale.
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Coactive AI
Country: USA | Funding: $44M
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
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Reveal Technology
Country: USA | Funding: $41.9M
Provider of intelligent systems for the military. It offers intelligent systems for getting real-time updates in isolated areas with no updates from the headquarters.
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Orbem
Country: Germany | Funding: €39.5M
We combine MRI with advanced AI for fast, accurate, and contactless object classification and analytics.
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Applitools
Country: Israel | Funding: $41.8M
By emulating the human eye and brain, our AI-powered image comparison technology only reports differences that are perceptible to users and reliably ignore invisible rendering, size and position differences. Our algorithms can instantly validate entire application pages, detect layout issues, and process the most complex and dynamic pages. No calibration, training, tweaking or thresholding required on your part. It just works perfectly.
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Clearview AI
Country: Australia | Funding: $38.6M
Clearview AI is a new research tool used by law enforcement agencies to identify perpetrators and victims of crimes.
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Blackshark.ai
Country: Austria | Funding: $35M
Blackshark.ai generates a real-time, accurate, searchable, and photorealistic digital 3D map of the infrastructure of the entire planet.
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ViSenze
Country: Singapore | Funding: $34M
ViSenze develops advanced visual search and image recognition solutions to help businesses in eCommerce, mCommerce and online advertising.
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