Alumni Ventures

Alumni Ventures Group provides high-quality, diversified venture portfolios to individual investors who previously haven't had access to VC. It helps accredited alums from top entrepreneurial schools invest together in the ventures of fellow alums. The firm backs companies with an alumni connection and an institutional lead investor with expertise in the space. AVG also offers focused funds that allow any accredited investor access to a venture portfolio, diversified by type, sector, stage, and geography. Beth Obermiller, Michael Madden, and Mike Collins co-founded the firm in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2013.

Past deals in Image Recognition

Magnetic Insight

Series B in 2022
Magnetic Insight, Inc. specializes in magnetic particle imaging (MPI), a novel imaging modality that detects iron oxide nanoparticle tracers using time-varying magnetic fields. The company has developed several key products, including the MOMENTUM imager, a pre-clinical MPI solution that produces detailed images through advanced reconstruction techniques, and VivoTrax, a nanoparticle designed for cell tracking and as a blood pool agent in pre-clinical studies. Additionally, the company offers Hyper, a module for localized magnetic hyperthermia, and Relax, which focuses on particle relaxometry. Founded in 2012 and based in Alameda, California, Magnetic Insight is dedicated to enhancing preclinical diagnostics and research by enabling quantitative cell tracking, imaging vascular functions, and detecting metastatic tumors, thereby addressing significant challenges in clinical and translational research.

Replicant

Series B in 2022
Replicant is an AI voice technology that solves problems over the phone, improves customer experience, and reduces cost. Replicant was founded on the belief that machines are ready to have useful, complex conversations that will transform the way they interact with the world. The company's initial focus was making Replicant listen closely, think quickly, take actions, and reply fast enough to be conversational. The brain needed to understand complex and colloquial speech patterns and interpret slang and humor. Piece by piece we built elegant tools that allowed Replicant to listen, think, speak, act and interact with the world.

Capella Space

Series C in 2022
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 50cm high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella provides easy access to frequent, timely, and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com. The company aims to make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being. Capella Space was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Luminous Computing

Series A in 2022
Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Overview

Series A in 2022
Overview Corporation specializes in developing advanced computer vision systems and smart cameras aimed at enhancing operational efficiency in wire and cable manufacturing. The company's technology focuses on real-time error detection and equipment monitoring, utilizing artificial intelligence to learn normal machine routines and identify deviations, crashes, and anomalies. Its inspection and monitoring systems are designed to prevent significant damage to products or machinery by catching issues such as misalignments and breakages early in the manufacturing process. Additionally, Overview Corporation's platform offers built-in analytics for remote factory tracking and provides users with live video feeds, event detection, and custom alerts, ensuring comprehensive operational visibility. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company serves the manufacturing sector across the United States.

ApertureData

Seed Round in 2022
ApertureDB unifies knowledge graphs, multimodal data, and vector search in one powerful database. ApertureDB can cut data infrastructure setup times by 6-12 months, offering incredible value to CTOs and CDOs who are now expected to define a strategy for successful AI deployment in an extremely volatile environment with conflicting data requirements. ApertureDB allows enterprises to centralize all relevant datasets – including large images, videos, documents, embeddings, and their associated metadata – for efficient retrieval and query handling. It stores the data, giving a uniform view of the schema to the users, and then provides knowledge graph and vector search capabilities for downstream use across the AI pipeline, be it for building a chatbot, a search system, or a classic ML solution. It can increase the productivity of data science and ML teams building multimodal AI by ten-fold on an average.

Pixm

Seed Round in 2022
Pixm is a computer and network company that specializes in cybersecurity and endpoint security. Its services also offer anti-phishing, email security, computer vision, and deep learning it helps companies, businesses, and organizations on website, network, and computer security. The company was founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Iterative Scopes

Series B in 2022
Iterative Scopes delivers tools for physicians and life sciences in colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease space. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lincode

Venture Round in 2022
Setting the standard for precision in manufacturing. Lincode is an AI-driven technology company specializing in advanced machine vision and defect detection for automotive, aerospace, and industrial manufacturing. Our patent-pending AI platform leverages pre-trained models to solve complex defect detection challenges, reducing data requirements and enabling rapid, high-accuracy deployment. With on-premise edge AI deployments, we ensure real-time, low-latency processing, eliminating reliance on the cloud and enhancing production efficiency. Our solutions seamlessly integrate with existing machine vision systems, cutting costs while improving defect detection—especially for subtle flaws like porosity in automotive components. At Lincode, we deliver scalable, cost-effective AI solutions that redefine quality control, helping manufacturers save time, reduce waste, and improve productivity. Trusted by industry leaders in automotive, aerospace, electronics, or packaging our solutions are proven to deliver results where it matters most—on the factory floor. Our system is built to suite the business requirements well without the need of additional rules or programming. With a few simple to use configurations manufacturers can set their quality tolerances per defect or per camera and work with both automation or non automated inspections seamlessly.

Algolux

Series B in 2021
Algolux is an award-winning AI software company delivering the industry’s most robust and scalable perception for all conditions, addressing both existing cameras and new designs through cloud-based tools and embedded software. The company was founded on groundbreaking research at the intersection of deep learning, computer vision, and computational imaging. Our computer vision and image optimization solutions address the mission-critical issue of safety for automotive ADAS, autonomous vehicles, fleets, autonomous mobile robots, and video security.

Sagence AI

Series A in 2021
Sagence AI is a semiconductor company developing products in the neural computing segment. They enable server-class networks to be deployed with extremely low latency in cost-effective edge devices. Its unique technology performs data-center-grade AI workloads at orders of magnitude lower power.

WaveOne

Series A in 2020
WaveOne is building the next generation of digital media compression. They are leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to create custom-tailored, context-dependent solutions.

Chooch

Series A in 2020
Chooch delivers generative AI technology combining computer vision and language understanding to deliver AI Vision that makes cameras intelligent. Chooch's AI Vision platform instantly detects visuals and actions in video steams, immediately comprehending their significance, and puts into motion real-time pre-programed responses to them. It does all of this in a fraction of the time a human being would even notice there is an issue.

WaveOne

Series A in 2020
WaveOne is building the next generation of digital media compression. They are leveraging the latest advancements in machine learning and deep learning to create custom-tailored, context-dependent solutions.

Bandit ML

Seed Round in 2020
Bandit ML builds machine learning tools for e-commerce companies.

AI.Reverie

Venture Round in 2020
AI.Reverie is a simulation platform that trains AI to understand the world. They offer a suite of synthetic data and vision APIs to help businesses across different industries train their machine learning algorithms and improve their AI applications, so that together, they make cities smarter, farms sustainable, homes safer, tasks easier, and life fuller.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Lily AI

Series A in 2020
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Capella Space

Series B in 2019
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 50cm high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella provides easy access to frequent, timely, and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com. The company aims to make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being. Capella Space was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Capella Space

Venture Round in 2019
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 50cm high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella provides easy access to frequent, timely, and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com. The company aims to make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being. Capella Space was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Lily AI

Funding Round in 2018
Lily AI is the first platform that bridges the gap between brand-speak and customer-speak to drive exponential growth for commerce companies large and small. Lily AI seamlessly injects customer-centric product attributes into site search engines, recommendation systems, SEO/SEM capabilities and item setup processes to drive exponential lifts in traffic, conversion, revenue and brand loyalty. The company is venture-backed and headquartered in Mountain View, CA.

Capella Space

Series B in 2018
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 50cm high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella provides easy access to frequent, timely, and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com. The company aims to make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being. Capella Space was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Kognition AI

Seed Round in 2018
Kognition provides enterprise-grade safety & security to global real estate owners encompassing healthcare, financial services, commercial real estate, telecom, retail and smart cities. Kognition AI generates real-time actionable alerts that prevent the spread of diseases, active shooters, espionage, hackers, thieves, & other high impact dangers.

Twenty20

Venture Round in 2018
Twenty20 provides a modern, real-world alternative to traditional stock photography. In the era of Instagram and the iPhone, stock photos can feel staged and uninspired. Twenty20 provides fresh, inspiring photography supplied by a global contributor community of ~ 250,000 mobile photographers. All imagery is available via a simple, royalty-free license.

Capture Technologies

Seed Round in 2018
Capture Technologies is a technology and social media company. Our mission is to bring an absolutely new and unique experience to how people interact with each other. We are closely working with AI, thereby using the most advanced technology to help us bring our mission to life. Capture app will erase the boundary between real-time communication and artificial intelligence.

FØCAL

Venture Round in 2018
FØCAL launched from DARPA-funded research and work with recognized leaders like Lockheed Martin. With roots in advanced research programs at MIT and Boston University, the FØCAL team brings the experience necessary to finally fix the CV application development process for a wide range of customers, from startups to the Global Fortune 500.

Hyprsense

Seed Round in 2016
Hyprsense provides real-time facial motion capture technology to light up the creation of live animation.

BinaryVR

Convertible Note in 2016
BinaryVR aims for seamless interaction between AI and people’s daily lives in the computer vision field. While straddling the line between R&D and product build, BinaryVR is on the front of the cutting-edge technology keeping their core value in constant evolution. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, United States.

BinaryVR

Seed Round in 2015
BinaryVR aims for seamless interaction between AI and people’s daily lives in the computer vision field. While straddling the line between R&D and product build, BinaryVR is on the front of the cutting-edge technology keeping their core value in constant evolution. Founded in 2015, the company is headquartered in Burlingame, California, United States.

Capella Space

Venture Round in 2014
Capella Space is an information services company that provides on-demand 50cm high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Earth observation imagery. Through a constellation of small satellites, Capella provides easy access to frequent, timely, and flexible information affecting dozens of industries worldwide. Capella's high-resolution SAR satellites are matched with unparalleled infrastructure to deliver reliable global insights that sharpen understanding of the changing world – improving decisions about commerce, conservation, and security on Earth. Learn more at www.capellaspace.com. The company aims to make timely Earth observation an essential tool for commerce, conservation, and well-being. Capella Space was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.
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