Entrepreneur First

Entrepreneur First is the place where the ambitious come together to build globally important technology companies. Through our platform running in 6 cities across 3 continents, we invest in high-potential individuals to help them meet their co-founder, develop their ideas and secure funding from leading investors in the shortest possible time. We have built over 300 companies from scratch; have over 5000 alumni worldwide; and our portfolio is valued at over $5bn. EF companies include Tractable (Computer Vision, currently valued at $1bn as of June 2021), Magic Pony Technology (AI, acquired by Twitter for a reported $150m), Represent (social commerce, acquired by CustomInk), BloomsburyAI (acquired by Facebook), Cleo (fintech), OpenCosmos (space), CloudNC (manufacturing), Transcelestial (satellite communications) and many more. We're backed by some of the world's best tech founders and investors, including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Greylock Partners, Founders Fund, Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Taavet Hinrikus (Wise). For more information about Entrepreneur First, visit www.joinef.com.

Past deals in Image Recognition

Ailiverse

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Ailiverse Text2AI AutoDL platform automates deep learning model development with only 1% of the data for training, in a 10X faster speed, and requires zero technical AI expertise from users.

Expertia AI

Seed Round in 2022
Expertia AI is a company that specializes in developing an AI-powered hiring platform aimed at enhancing recruitment processes. The platform utilizes advanced technologies, including deep learning and natural language processing, to effectively predict the best candidates for specific job roles. It aggregates candidate information from various job boards, systematically ranking and scoring applications based on their suitability for particular job descriptions. By employing a machine learning algorithm that offers explanations for its assessments, Expertia AI enables businesses to streamline their hiring practices, allowing them to concentrate on creating value and expanding job opportunities.

EyePick

Seed Round in 2021
EyePick automates manual tasks in the food industry using vision-guided robots and industrial systems. They also provide automation solutions for the logistics, retail, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries.

NeuroPixel.AI

Seed Round in 2021
NeuroPixel is a deep-tech platform focused on apparel cataloging. NeuroPixel.AI's proprietary DeepNet framework not just simplifies this process, but also makes it cost-effective.

NeuroPixel.AI

Pre Seed Round in 2021
NeuroPixel is a deep-tech platform focused on apparel cataloging. NeuroPixel.AI's proprietary DeepNet framework not just simplifies this process, but also makes it cost-effective.

Retail Pulse

Seed Round in 2020
Retail Pulse is disrupting the Kirana Tech space with its AI capabilities to drive real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, enabling decision-making at the speed of thought. We have built retail Pulse ground up with new-age technology to empower businesses and Kirana retailers.

Retail Pulse

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Retail Pulse is disrupting the Kirana Tech space with its AI capabilities to drive real-time insights from millions of Kirana stores, enabling decision-making at the speed of thought. We have built retail Pulse ground up with new-age technology to empower businesses and Kirana retailers.

Verchable

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Artificial Intelligence for Contextual Video Understanding

UpStride

Seed Round in 2020
upstride is a new computational paradigm to improve accuracy, data efficiency and power consumption of neural networks.

Lytehouse

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Lytehouse is an AI-powered security guard for total visibility and fast response. Lytehouse's security monitoring system empowers control rooms with preventive and proactive monitoring capabilities. With targeted threat management, they can increase their operator bandwidth and improve their service quality. Lytehouse's user-friendly interface allows anyone to quickly onboard, create rules, and manage cameras.

EyePick

Pre Seed Round in 2019
EyePick automates manual tasks in the food industry using vision-guided robots and industrial systems. They also provide automation solutions for the logistics, retail, manufacturing, and pharmaceutical industries.

SixSense

Seed Round in 2019
SixSense is an AI-powered industrial visual inspection platform for smarter manufacturing. SixSense uses cutting-edge technologies in the field of AI such as deep learning and computer vision to automatically identify defects on the manufacturing floor. They are building the future of self-intelligent factories by enabling automation for image-based industrial applications.

Ai Palette

Seed Round in 2019
Ai Palette delivers AI-driven product development solutions to businesses operating in the food and consumer packaged goods (CPG) sectors. Ai Palette creates product concepts in line with a brand’s personality & its existing product portfolio. It does this by garnering insights from millions of digital conversations and coupling them with company data to create product concepts that address the unmet needs of consumers.

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.

UpStride

Pre Seed Round in 2019
upstride is a new computational paradigm to improve accuracy, data efficiency and power consumption of neural networks.

Ai Palette

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Ai Palette delivers AI-driven product development solutions to businesses operating in the food and consumer packaged goods (CPG) sectors. Ai Palette creates product concepts in line with a brand’s personality & its existing product portfolio. It does this by garnering insights from millions of digital conversations and coupling them with company data to create product concepts that address the unmet needs of consumers.

AIMLedge

Seed Round in 2018
AIMLedge Pte. Ltd., founded in 2018 and based in Singapore, develops a software platform that automates the creation and deployment of customized deep learning software for edge devices across various brands and computing capabilities. The company focuses on providing optimized solutions for low-end commodity cameras, significantly reducing development time by up to 80% and facilitating plug-and-play deployment. AIMLedge's platform supports deep learning-based video analytics applications, enabling businesses to analyze in-store customer preferences and buying patterns. This capability helps organizations assess the effectiveness of their visual merchandising and marketing strategies, aiming to make advanced AI and IoT accessible to businesses of all sizes and industries.

AimBrain

Series A in 2017
AimBrain uses anomaly detection, behavioural biometrics and three active biometric authentication modules to prevent fraudulent or abusive account creation, detect account takeover and provide the necessary step-up user authentication for liveliness detection to comply with KYC, AML, PSD2 and other regulatory requirements. In May 2018 it launched AimBrain On Demand, a free-for-life dashboard for developers and innovators, including 1,000 free facial, voice or video/audio API calls a month, making stronger authentication free for everyone. It has a unique, 100% proprietary portfolio of passive and active modules, underpinned by patented processes and ensemble learning, which detect the fraud other solutions can't. Clients include Tier 1, digital and P2P banks, wealth managers, cloud service providers and tech/fintech organisations.

Calipsa

Seed Round in 2016
Deep Learning powered video monitoring

Calipsa

Pre Seed Round in 2016
Deep Learning powered video monitoring

Kheiron

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Keypla

Seed Round in 2016
Keypla is automating human valuations using computer vision and machine learning.

Innersight

Seed Round in 2015
Innersight is a UK-based company that specializes in developing innovative software designed to assist surgeons in visualizing cancerous tumors more effectively. Their technology transforms 2D scans, such as those from kidney imaging, into detailed 3D models that can be accessed on a surgeon's laptop. This machine-aided technique enhances the surgeon's ability to identify the precise location of tumors, facilitating improved decision-making during surgical procedures. By providing a clearer visual representation of the tumor's position, Innersight aims to enhance surgical outcomes and ultimately contribute to better patient care.

AimBrain

Seed Round in 2014
AimBrain uses anomaly detection, behavioural biometrics and three active biometric authentication modules to prevent fraudulent or abusive account creation, detect account takeover and provide the necessary step-up user authentication for liveliness detection to comply with KYC, AML, PSD2 and other regulatory requirements. In May 2018 it launched AimBrain On Demand, a free-for-life dashboard for developers and innovators, including 1,000 free facial, voice or video/audio API calls a month, making stronger authentication free for everyone. It has a unique, 100% proprietary portfolio of passive and active modules, underpinned by patented processes and ensemble learning, which detect the fraud other solutions can't. Clients include Tier 1, digital and P2P banks, wealth managers, cloud service providers and tech/fintech organisations.

Magic Pony Technology

Venture Round in 2014
Delivering advanced video upscaling, compression and enhancement technologies built on novel machine learning & computer vision research with 5+ patents pending. Magic Pony Technology's world-class R&D team has gained 30+ yrs combined research experience at Imperial College, King's College & UCL, 100+ publications in major international conferences & journals and 300+ citations from institutions such as Harvard, CMU and Microsoft Research.
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