Top 20 Facial recognition startups

Updated: Dec 01, 2025
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These companies develop new technologies for identifying or verifying a person face from a digital image or a video frame from a video source.
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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.
2
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.
3
AnyVision
Country: Israel | Funding: $352M
AnyVision is an AI platform company that helps Fortune 500 brands create safer spaces for employees and customers.
4
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.
5
iProov
Country: UK | Funding: $70M
iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
6
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.
7
NtechLab
Country: Russia | Funding: $17.6M
NTechLab develops software products using techniques in the fields of artificial neural networks and machine learning.
8
Pimloc
Country: UK | Funding: $14.3M
Pimloc's deep learning platform allows organisations to automatically ingest, detect, classify and protect diverse image and video content.
9
Kairos
Country: USA | Funding: $11M
Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition. Through computer vision and machine learning, Kairos can recognize faces in videos, photos, and the real-world - making it easier than ever to transform the way your business interacts with people.
10
VisionLabs
Country: Netherlands | Funding: $5.5M
VisionLabs is a world-leading visual recognition company. VisionLabs products, based on this technology, are successfully integrated in banking, retail, security, video surveillance.
11
Reface
Country: Ukraine | Funding: $5.5M
Reface is an AI powered app where people can swap faces in the videos, GIFs and images in just a few seconds.
12
Sighthound
Country: USA | 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
13
Trueface.ai
Country: USA | 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
14
FindFace
Country: Russia
FindFace develops best in class face, emotions, gender and age recognition technology
15
Swiftlane
Country: USA
Swiftlane allows to unlock building doors using face recognition and the mobile phone app. Swiftlane leverages deep learning, AI and computer vision to provide a safe, privacy first, single-sign-on into your office and other physical spaces.
16
RevovleAI
Country: Pakistan | Funding: $100K
RevolveAI builds innovative Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence platform for businesses, brands and research institutes with its ever-growing team of Ph.D. Researchers, Machine Learning Experts and Computer Scientists.
17
Sumato-Id
Country: Argentina
Sumato-Id develops software for digitizing physical store using facial recognition biometrics, cognitive algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
18
EDGENeural.ai
Country: India
EDGENeural.ai is creating a platform that accelerates the process of deploying AI on the edge, which will make every device intelligent, secure and fast.
19
Truein
Country: India
Truein is a B2B SaaS company that helps organizations to enable face recognition based employee attendance and visitors entry.
20
FACIA
Country: UK
FACIA is a pioneering AI-driven facial recognition, Deepfake Detection, Age Verification and liveness detection solutions designed to enhance security, identity verification and fraud prevention.
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Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)pro