Top 50 Computer Vision startups in USA
May 04, 2026
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Funding: $18.2M
Shade is developing a cloud-based media storage platform designed for agencies, sports media teams, and podcasters to easily store and search their media using natural language queries. The startup claims that their search doesn't just display a specific video but pinpoints the exact moment in the video where the scene corresponding to the search query occurs. The tool also automatically transcribes the audio for easier searching. Users can search by meaning, transcript, and facial recognition for tagged individuals. For example, users can search for "person with laptop in snow," and the system will return all relevant clips with timestamps.
Shade is developing a cloud-based media storage platform designed for agencies, sports media teams, and podcasters to easily store and search their media using natural language queries. The startup claims that their search doesn't just display a specific video but pinpoints the exact moment in the video where the scene corresponding to the search query occurs. The tool also automatically transcribes the audio for easier searching. Users can search by meaning, transcript, and facial recognition for tagged individuals. For example, users can search for "person with laptop in snow," and the system will return all relevant clips with timestamps.
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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.
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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Funding: $8M
Memories.ai is using Nvidia AI tools to build the infrastructure for wearables and robotics to be able to remember and recall visual memories. Memories.ai uses Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, a reasoning vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, an application for video search and summarization to build the infrastructure needed to embed and index videos into a data format that can be stored and recalled, and capturing the data needed to train the model to do just that. The company created its own large visual memory model (LVMM) and LUCI, a hardware device worn by the company’s “data collectors” that records video used to train the model.
Memories.ai is using Nvidia AI tools to build the infrastructure for wearables and robotics to be able to remember and recall visual memories. Memories.ai uses Nvidia’s Cosmos-Reason 2, a reasoning vision language model, and Nvidia Metropolis, an application for video search and summarization to build the infrastructure needed to embed and index videos into a data format that can be stored and recalled, and capturing the data needed to train the model to do just that. The company created its own large visual memory model (LVMM) and LUCI, a hardware device worn by the company’s “data collectors” that records video used to train the model.
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Funding: $3.5B
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
Metropolis is an AI and computer vision start-up built to modernize parking and empower the future of mobility.
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Funding: $2.8B
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.
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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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.
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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Funding: $364.1M
AEye develops adaptive, high performance lidar systems for automotive, trucking, smart infrastructure and logistics applications.
AEye develops adaptive, high performance lidar systems for automotive, trucking, smart infrastructure and logistics applications.
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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.
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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Funding: $173.9M
Nauto is an intelligent camera that protects commercial fleets and keeps drivers safe by preventing collisions before they occur.
Nauto is an intelligent camera that protects commercial fleets and keeps drivers safe by preventing collisions before they occur.
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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.
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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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.
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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Funding: $99.7M
Roboflow is a developer tool for building computer vision models faster and more accurately.
Roboflow is a developer tool for building computer vision models faster and more accurately.
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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.
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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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.
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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Funding: $89M
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
Pano uses deep learning AI and computer vision to automatically detect, verify and classify wildfire events in real time.
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Funding: $85.1M
Proprio uses machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality user interfaces to improve the accuracy and efficiency of surgery.
Proprio uses machine learning, computer vision, and augmented reality user interfaces to improve the accuracy and efficiency of surgery.
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Funding: $82.6M
VergeSense uses machine vision to help businesses better understand how their office spaces are being utilized
VergeSense uses machine vision to help businesses better understand how their office spaces are being utilized
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Funding: $77M
Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time
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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Funding: $68.8M
AiCure's intelligent medical assistant, IMA, visually controls that medication is taken.
AiCure's intelligent medical assistant, IMA, visually controls that medication is taken.
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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.
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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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.
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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Funding: $53.4M
Deep Sentinel is producing a series of home cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property.
Deep Sentinel is producing a series of home cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property.
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Funding: $50M
Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
Daydream focuses on providing personalized shopping results through generative AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
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Funding: $47.4M
Eyenuk is a global digital health company and leader in real-world AI eye screening for autonomous disease detection
Eyenuk is a global digital health company and leader in real-world AI eye screening for autonomous disease detection
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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.
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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Funding: $44M
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
Coactive AI is a machine learning platform that unlocks analytics and insights from unstructured image and video data.
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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.
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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Funding: $32.5M
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
Osmo is a gaming company built around its proprietary Reflective Artificial Intelligence. It aims to create a new play movement to unleash the boundaries of the screen with the launch of its inaugural product, Osmo. Osmo expands the playing field and engages creative thinking and social interaction, allowing any object - pen and paper, you name it - to interact with the digital device.
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Funding: $31.1M
Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries. Its LettuceBot uses cutting edge computer vision and robotics to identify over 1.5M lettuce plants per hour and act 90 times per second, all with 1/4-inch precision.
Blue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics technologies to build intelligent solutions for the agricultural industries. Its LettuceBot uses cutting edge computer vision and robotics to identify over 1.5M lettuce plants per hour and act 90 times per second, all with 1/4-inch precision.
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Funding: $30M
Ultralytics creates computer vision YOLO models built on years of foundational research. YOLO (You Only Look Once) technology, instead of first searching for possible areas → then classifying, immediately determines the frame and class of the object. It enables to provide fast and accurate real-time image and video analysis. These pretrained models are optimized for edge and cloud deployment and easily integrate into a variety of applications. The company is dedicated to creating open-source models and offers flexible licensing options for academic and enterprise licenses.
Ultralytics creates computer vision YOLO models built on years of foundational research. YOLO (You Only Look Once) technology, instead of first searching for possible areas → then classifying, immediately determines the frame and class of the object. It enables to provide fast and accurate real-time image and video analysis. These pretrained models are optimized for edge and cloud deployment and easily integrate into a variety of applications. The company is dedicated to creating open-source models and offers flexible licensing options for academic and enterprise licenses.
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Funding: $25.9M
Chooch AI is the horizontal visual Al platform that quickly replicates human visual tasks and processes with AI on the edge & in the cloud.
Chooch AI is the horizontal visual Al platform that quickly replicates human visual tasks and processes with AI on the edge & in the cloud.
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Funding: $25.8M
Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI.
Orchard Robotics develops an operating system that enables precision agriculture driven by robots and AI.
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Funding: $25.5M
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
Bonsai Robotics provides vision-based automation solutions for off-road vehicles, such as agricultural machines.
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Funding: $25M
Airspace provides a drone detection and disabling system. It performs multi-dimensional risk analysis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and advanced robotics with situational and historic data.
Airspace provides a drone detection and disabling system. It performs multi-dimensional risk analysis by leveraging Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and advanced robotics with situational and historic data.
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Funding: $25M
Actuate builds software that employs computer vision to automatically detect gun threats and intruders in security camera feeds.
Actuate builds software that employs computer vision to automatically detect gun threats and intruders in security camera feeds.
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Funding: $24.4M
Automotus uses first-of-its-kind computer vision technology to help cities, airports and fleets manage congestion and emissions at the curb.
Automotus uses first-of-its-kind computer vision technology to help cities, airports and fleets manage congestion and emissions at the curb.
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Funding: $19.6M
Activeloop structures the unstructured data to seamlessly connect your computer vision data to machine learning models.
Activeloop structures the unstructured data to seamlessly connect your computer vision data to machine learning models.
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Funding: $17M
Using it's proprietary image and video recognition technologies, Vue.ai's product suite changes the way stores and brands build personalized experiences for their customers online and in-store; it redefines the way marketers instantly gratify, acquire and grow their customer base across multiple social channels; and automates key warehouse and factory floor workflows involving product tagging, photo shoots, catalog management and more.
Using it's proprietary image and video recognition technologies, Vue.ai's product suite changes the way stores and brands build personalized experiences for their customers online and in-store; it redefines the way marketers instantly gratify, acquire and grow their customer base across multiple social channels; and automates key warehouse and factory floor workflows involving product tagging, photo shoots, catalog management and more.
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Funding: $12M
Darvis is redefining the corporate logistics paradigm and leading the charge in AI-enabled in-house logistics. Its AI-powered asset management solution unites cutting-edge computer vision, robust data management, and an array of state-of-the-art technologies.
Darvis is redefining the corporate logistics paradigm and leading the charge in AI-enabled in-house logistics. Its AI-powered asset management solution unites cutting-edge computer vision, robust data management, and an array of state-of-the-art technologies.
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Funding: $9M
Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated no-code platform designed for building computer vision applications. Using the platform developers can easily add computer vision capabilities to their products, devices & security cameras. It supports such functions as real-time actions, instant alerts, live dashboards, time-series analysis, so you can consume the video from existing cameras as data, not images. Kibsi turns any video into dashboards, reports, and alerts, and integrates with the data platforms you already use. You can use 100s of built-in models to detect people, vehicles, or other objects, enhance detections with attributes like color, shape, and status, add composable detectors that understand complex scenarios and relationships between objects
Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated no-code platform designed for building computer vision applications. Using the platform developers can easily add computer vision capabilities to their products, devices & security cameras. It supports such functions as real-time actions, instant alerts, live dashboards, time-series analysis, so you can consume the video from existing cameras as data, not images. Kibsi turns any video into dashboards, reports, and alerts, and integrates with the data platforms you already use. You can use 100s of built-in models to detect people, vehicles, or other objects, enhance detections with attributes like color, shape, and status, add composable detectors that understand complex scenarios and relationships between objects
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Funding: $8M
CloudSight offers its computer vision API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.
CloudSight offers its computer vision API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.
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Funding: $6M
Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries.
Rendered.ai is generating synthetic data for the satellite, medical, robotics and automotive industries.
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Funding: $6M
Prisma is an AI-driven mobile technology company that develops state of the art Deep Learning solutions for Computer Vision and AR.
Prisma is an AI-driven mobile technology company that develops state of the art Deep Learning solutions for Computer Vision and AR.
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Funding: $5.2M
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
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Funding: $5M
TrueFace.Ai is a platform of facial recognition APIs powered by deep learning. It provides on-premise & Cloud Solutions for Face Recognition & Identity Verification
TrueFace.Ai is a platform of facial recognition APIs powered by deep learning. It provides on-premise & Cloud Solutions for Face Recognition & Identity Verification
