Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a no-fee/no-equity organization that delivers an objectives-based mentoring program for massively scalable, pre-seed stage, science- and technology-based companies. Its nine-month program allows founders to learn from experienced entrepreneurs, increasing their likelihood of success. Founded in 2012 by Professor Ajay Agrawal at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded to thirteen sites across seven countries: Seattle, Oxford, Paris, Atlanta, Estonia, Wisconsin, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Berlin, Melbourne and Halifax.

Past deals in Image Recognition

Arkangel AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Arkangel AI allows healthcare organizations to unlock the power of artificial intelligence with a no-code platform that builds, deploys, and manages machine learning algorithms at scale.

Crossing Minds

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Crossing Minds is the smartest platform powering perceptive recommendations that drive online discovery and engagement. Founded and led by world-renowned AI pioneers and powered by the latest advances in deep learning, Crossing Minds instantly delivers precise, session-based recommendations that don’t infringe on or jeopardize customer privacy. We help businesses engage their customers. We help people discover products they love. We help turn curiosity into loyalty.

LGN

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
LGN builds the world's most advanced Edge AI deployment software. Streamlining deployments from the cloud by creating a single, geo-distributed K8s cluster where all cloud instances and edge devices (ARM & x86) appear instantly with zero-touch onboarding. Once models are deployed, our supervision technology identifies and selects anomalies in real-time to be sent back to the cloud for instant and continuous fine-tuning/retraining.

HEARTio

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
HEARTio is a digital diagnostic startup using artificial intelligence to help emergency providers identify heart abnormalities more quickly, more accurately, and for orders of magnitude less. It was started in 2018 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Flox

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Flox uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve bird welfare and flock performance. The company is transforming the way farmers manage their flocks and houses with proven technology.

Reflekt Me

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
The future of eCommerce is inclusive, dynamic, and interactive! Reflekt Me is a catalyst for change in terms of representation, diversity and inclusion within eCommerce. The venture is an enterprise solution that enables eCommerce companies to be representative of all their potential customers. Reflekt Me’s tool allows sites to match the characteristics of the shopper (size, skin tone, hair texture, etc.) in the images they show via user and influencer generated content. Customers will love seeing someone who actually looks like them using and discussing your products. Not only that – shoppers are able to share this content, read tips, and watch videos about your products – within a dynamic experience on your ecommerce site. With Reflekt Me, the entire social media value chain is on your site, for a frictionless path to purchase. With a team of Ph.D. level sociologists, multicultural insights specialists, psychologists, and technologists, they have created an enterprise solution for ecommerce, that empowers shoppers to find the best products for their unique characteristics. Their insights driven technology can personalize the UX experience for eCommerce sites across fashion, hair care, skin care, beauty, and medical industries. Engage your customers, empower your tribe, create community, answer the call to action – Reflekt Me.

Pythonic AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
Pythonic focuses the power of state-of-the-art machine learning on documents to automate specific classification, extraction, review, and document routing tasks.

SpeedSize

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
SpeedSize AI-optimizes images and videos to up to 99% smaller file size while retaining 100% of the quality. Websites look better, load faster and improve user experience.

AdeptMind

Non Equity Assistance in 2021
AdeptMind is a SaaS AI/ML company that innovates in Shopping Center Marketplaces & eCommerce Product Discovery Its co-founders recently came out of a quite successful sale of their previous company, Maluuba. This time around, they are looking to grow a kick-ass Silicon Valley style team in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

NXT Farm

Pre Seed Round in 2020
NXT Farm provides industry-first algorithms for processing satellite imagery which help a farmer optimize their inputs and maximize their yields.

Dotphoton

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
Dotphoton is a ground-breaking image compression solution for science, tech and art based on quantum physics research. Also, Dotphoton is a new universal file format which allows to save up to 10 times storage space and transmit high quality photos and videos better than any other format. Scientific research behind the technology proves that we can guarantee quality of compression and image look retention. Our products are oriented towards professional costumers. We provide image compression solutions including software, IP licensing, support and certification.

Emagix

Non Equity Assistance in 2020
EMAGIX provides a diagnostic image analysis platform, that provides analyzed data on vascular health and integrity in the retina and MRI images. It is an AI software support tool for detecting vascular pathology. For inquiries, email, telephone numbers, and physical addresses are available on their website.

PulseMedica

Pre Seed Round in 2020
PulseMedica, an Edmonton-based medical device startup, is developing an ophthalmic medical device platform for non-invasive, automated image-guided laser treatment enabled by 3D computer vision, real-time tracking, and femtosecond laser technology. PulseMedica is laser-focused on improving the quality of life for millions of people by building revolutionary technology to image and treat vitreoretinal disease. PulseMedica’s short-term vision is to become the global expert in non-invasive, safe, effective screening and treatment of eye floaters, with the ultimate vision of becoming the global standard for screening and treating vitreoretinal disease.

Odin Vision

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Odin Vision develops AI-based applications for endoscopic procedures. Odin Vision believes that cloud and AI will usher in a new era of healthcare by assisting doctors in providing higher-quality care, resulting in improved patient outcomes, better patient experiences, and increased value for healthcare providers.

Vouched

Seed Round in 2019
Vouched develops patent-pending AI (CV/ML) to visually verify identity and onboard users in seconds. Vouched works with companies in regulated and sensitive industries including healthcare, real estate, gig and sharing, retail, operations and logistics, and financial services and banking, among others. Vouched has identified hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. It is proficient in hundreds of ID types, including all IDs in the U.S., Canada, Vietnam, and Great Britain, as well as passports for 30+ countries.

HumanSignal

Seed Round in 2019
HumanSignal is a developer of data labeling software and annotation tools to build accurate and smart AI products. It offers a platform that combines automation and human supervision to fine-tune AI models, prepare training data, and validate models. Creator and maintainer of the popular open-source data labeling tool, Label Studio (labelstud.io).

Pixxel

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Pixxel is a space data company that develops a constellation of hyperspectral earth imaging satellites and analytical tools to mine insights from that data. The constellation is designed to provide global coverage every 24 hours, aiming to detect, monitor, and predict global phenomena.

Unitary

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Unitary creates context-aware AI and multimodal machine learning approaches to analyze content in context. It allows users to detect inappropriate content and take action to protect their community. Their goal is to keep the internet safer by accurately, quickly, and efficiently interpreting material.

RoadBotics by Michelin

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
RoadBotics empowers governments and communities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their public infrastructure assets. We automate image mapping and road assessments, generating interactive maps, unbiased ratings, and practical tools to save time and taxpayer dollars for hundreds of communities across the country and around the world.

Imeka

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Provider of brain imaging platform created to help researchers get the most out of their medical images. The company's platform offers MRI high standing structure and deep learning algorithms, enabling pharmaceutical companies to quantity and understand brain connectivity and white matter.

A.I. VALI

Pre Seed Round in 2019
A.I. VALI analyzes physicians' voices during procedures in real-time using Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) techniques, as well as data obtained from medical imaging such as endoscopy video footage and tissue biopsy specimens. The AI is modular. AIDREA(TM) is a global platform that provides clients with accurate, reproducible, and inexpensive real-time analysis. AIDREA(TM) has a significant impact on the quality of analysis in the early diagnosis of diseases such as cancer, allowing for the most tailored treatment approach.

Axem Neurotechnology

Convertible Note in 2019
Axem Neurotechnology is on a mission to make neurotechnology more accessible and to provide people with information about their brains so that they can live better lives. They are provided in the comfort of the patient's own home, via video communication with the provider and a personalized home exercise program enabled by an easy-to-use brain sensor.

Greyparrot

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Greyparrot, the leader in AI waste analytics, is applying AI to globally scale recycling and save millions of tonnes of waste from landfills and incinerators. By providing deeper, more intelligent insights about waste stream composition and value, Greyparrot is helping the waste sector recover more value from waste processing lines and reduce the environmental impact of waste. The company’s waste intelligence platform, including Greyparrot Analyzer and Greyparrot Sync (API), reveals real-time insights on over 89 waste categories across seven layers of data, including financial value, brand, and GHG emissions, captured at multiple locations across a recycling facility. In 2024, Greyparrot analysed over 40 billion waste objects helping drive efficiency to save hundreds of thousands, to millions, of dollars per facility – while diverting millions of tonnes of waste away from landfills, oceans, and incinerators. Using Greyparrot insights, recycling professionals, plant builders, packaging producers, and FMCG brands can make decisions to help them increase recycling efficiency, comply with recycling regulations, and improve recyclable packaging design. Greyparrot is recognised as: • Global Cleantech 100 2024 • World Economic Forum “Tech Pioneer” 2021 • PWC “NetZero Future 50” 2022 • WIRED “Europe's 100 Hottest Startups” 2021 • CB Insights “Top 100 most promising AI company globally” 2021

Docuvision

Seed Round in 2019
Docuvision is an AI-powered platform used to find and redact sensitive data in large volumes of documents and emails.

Metaspectral

Non Equity Assistance in 2019
Compression.ai is an information technology company that specializes in the fields of machine learning and web services. The company has developed encoding and decoding capability for images using machine learning, which achieves on-average about 95% compression rates of a raw image without significantly losing its quality.

Kheiron

Grant in 2019
At Kheiron, we are going where only a few have gone before; seeking a new understanding of cancer and how to detect it using artificial intelligence and human insight. We’ve made significant breakthroughs with our breast cancer screening product Mia but this is just the beginning of our journey. Ultimately we want to radically improve the outcomes for cancer patients by pioneering a new era of, what we call, precision radiology. While this all sounds very serious and it is, we believe in having fun along the way. Karaoke is our favourite sport. We also have an incredible crew from more than twenty different countries and offices in London, Budapest, Amsterdam and San Francisco. Giving every woman a better fighting chance against cancer.

INDUS.AI

Seed Round in 2018
INDUS.AI is the world’s most advanced construction intelligence solution that enables real estate investors, owners, developers, and general contractors to have real-time visibility and actionable insights into all activities, productivity, and risks at their construction sites. INDUS.AI seeks to make construction sites and projects safer, more efficient, and completely transparent. Founded in 2017, Indus.ai Inc has offices in San Francisco and Toronto, servicing customers in US, Canada, Hong Kong and Brazil.

Boxcat

Venture Round in 2017
Boxcat transfers elements of digital imaging engines to quantum computing computations, changing rendering techniques for the picture and video sectors. They create a hybrid rendering method that combines classical and quantum structures to perform rendering operations.

black.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Black.ai helps large format retailers prevent theft and increase revenue by empowering real-time decision making and staff response

Denti.AI

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Denti.AI (www.denti.ai) is an intelligent automation and diagnostics company that leverages AI to analyze dental x-rays and voice dictation for the automated charting of pathologies, past treatments, and other features. We help find diseases earlier and improve dentist productivity and revenue. The products are integrated with a range of practicemanagement software automating the clinical workflow of dental support organizations across North America with hundreds of commercial users.

Triage

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Triage is an online skin test company. They used an AI-powered health screening smartphone camera to detect conditions. They offer services for skin, eye, STIs, oral, hair, nail, and general health concerns. Their devices monitor and track health with ease and accuracy from the palm of the hand.

True Positive Medical Devices

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
True Positive MD develops imaging software analytics to assess brain health.

Optina Diagnostics

Non Equity Assistance in 2017
Optina Diagnostics is a diagnostics company that uses innovative retinal imaging and artificial intelligence to provide non-invasive diagnostic test results for under-diagnosed diseases. Optina Diagnostics identifies patient retinal features that assist physicians in assessing patients' health status and disease risk in order to provide timely and appropriate care. Optina Diagnostics reimagines brain health assessment and provides critical information early in disease progression.

Elucid Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Elucid Labs is a MedTech company developing augmented intelligence imaging solution for early detection and diagnosis of skin cancer. Its proprietary imaging technology probes the molecular makeup of the skin at different layers and produces an unique fingerprint for the mole/lesion. The company has developed a proprietary AI technology translates this fingerprint into valuable clinical informatics to assist dermatologists in making better, faster, and more well informed decisions. With its technology, detection and diagnosis of skin cancer can be performed at much earlier stages of development which in turn reduces the cost of treatment as well as significantly reducing the unnecessary biopsies carried out every year.

Vertex.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Vertex.AI brings the full power of deep learning to every device, big or small. The company was founded in 2015 by Choong Ng and Jeremy Bruestle.

Galaxy.ai

Grant in 2016
Galaxy.ai is democratizing access to the AI by offering a unified platform that brings together the most powerful AI capabilities under one roof. Our mission is to simplify access to AI while making it more cost-effective for businesses and individuals alike. We provide seamless access to a comprehensive suite of AI tools and models, eliminating the need for multiple subscriptions and fragmented workflows. Our platform integrates: • Text Generation & Analysis • Image Creation & Editing • Video Production & Processing • Audio Generation & Transcription • Data Analysis & Insights • And more, all in one intuitive interface Galaxy.ai is transforming how professionals interact with AI tools, making advanced artificial intelligence more accessible, affordable, and efficient. We're proud to serve 10,000+ users helping them harness the full potential of AI technology without the complexity and cost of managing multiple services. Join us in shaping the future of AI accessibility. Welcome to Galaxy.ai - Your Gateway to the AI Universe.

Fluent.ai

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Fluent.ai adopts a fundamentally different machine learning approach to speech recognition. Our models learns from context, behavior, and speech, in any language. Its speech recognition engine expresses the flexibility to understand natural phrases reliably across languages, accents, and noise environments such as a smart home, connected car, wearable, or virtual reality headset. Special features of Fluent.ai include multilingual, van be personalized, reliability, and ability to use both offline and online. It was launched in 2015 by Vikrant Tomar..

Nix Sensor Ltd.

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Everything in the world has color... Traditionally measuring, communicating and controlling that color has been a manual, analog, "by eye" process. Nix has a patented system of easy-to-use, low-cost, portable spectrophotometers, that work in tandem with purpose-built SaaS software for enterprises. We are sold in 60+ countries, in industries as diverse as Paints and Coatings, Print and Packaging, Manufacturing, Cosmetics, Film and Video Games, Agriculture, Plastics, Medical, Defence, and more! For more detailed product information and to learn more about the future of color measurement, please visit nixsensor.com

Heuritech

Non Equity Assistance in 2016
Heuritech is a cutting-edge fashion technology company that offers brands predictive analytics on trends and products. Using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to translate real-world images shared on social media into meaningful insights, Heuritech empowers fashion brands to forecast demand and trends more accurately, produce more sustainably, and achieve unprecedented competitive advantage.

Algocian

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
An empowering business with ground breaking Image Recognition Technology that exists to push the frontiers of video monitoring.
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