Google Ventures

Google Ventures invests in sectors including life sciences, consumer, enterprise, crypto, climate, and frontier technology. With Alphabet as its sole limited partner, Google Ventures focuses on investments in North America and Europe. Its operating partners assist startups in design, equity, diversity & inclusion, talent, and engineering and help them connect with Google for technology and expertise. Some investments include Uber, Nest, Slack, GitLab, and One Medical.

Past deals in Image Recognition

Viz

Series D in 2022
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, 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.

Scandit

Series D in 2022
Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-time information as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless. Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota.

Lightmatter

Series B in 2021
Lightmatter is a team of designers, developers, and strategists that build software applications to help the world's most promising health companies improve the lives of their patients.

Scandit

Series C in 2020
Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-time information as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless. Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota.

Ripcord

Series B in 2020
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Orbital Insight

Series D in 2019
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The company operates a cloud-based platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data science to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data. This data includes satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar, and other sources such as unmanned aerial vehicles and geolocation signals. Orbital Insight's technology provides insights into societal and economic trends that are not easily visible, helping organizations understand complex interactions between natural and human activities. Its product offerings include solutions designed for various sectors, such as consumer traffic analysis and monitoring energy supply and infrastructure. The company serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions based on actionable intelligence derived from extensive geospatial data analysis.

Viz

Series B in 2019
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Imagen

Series B in 2018
Imagen is a healthcare company whose mission is to save patient lives by making accurate medical image interpretation universally available and affordable. Currently, over two-thirds of the world’s population doesn’t have access to basic radiology services. Through our technology and close collaboration with world-leading clinicians, we believe that we can do something about it. We take an interdisciplinary approach: we are a team of experts in machine learning, healthcare, software engineering, and regulatory affairs who research and develop assistive software for clinicians. Our FDA-cleared software analyzes the content of medical images and produces diagnoses, improving the diagnostic accuracy of clinicians by highlighting detected pathology. We are advised by some of the world’s leading scientists and medical researchers, including Turing Award winner Yann LeCun. We have raised over $60M from leading investors including GV, DFJ, and Zach Weinberg. Imagen is based in New York and actively hiring. Are you excited about joining our mission? Reach out directly to us at recruitingteam@imagen.ai

Scandit

Series B in 2018
Scandit is a technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises. The company software brings unrivaled scanning performance to any app on any camera-equipped smart device, from smartphones to wearables to drones and robots - to read barcodes, recognize text and objects, and display real-time information as AR overlays. It helps consumers and employees find things on store shelves with their smartphones, and as things become more contactless. Organizations in retail, transport, logistics, and manufacturing use Scandit to power apps such as mobile shopping, self-checkout, inventory management, proof of delivery, and asset tracking. Use cases in healthcare include tracking patients, medication, specimens, and supplies. Scandit solutions take cost and time out of operations and improve employee and customer satisfaction. Clients include 7-Eleven, Alaska Airlines, Carrefour, Hermes, Johns Hopkins Hospital, La Poste, Levi Strauss & Co, Mount Sinai Hospital, Sephora, and Toyota.

Viz

Series A in 2018
Viz helps physicians to identify anomalies in brain scans through machine learning. The company leverages advanced deep learning to communicate time-sensitive information about stroke patients straight to a specialist who can intervene and treat them. It uses deep learning algorithms to identify a suspected large vessel occlusion, a particularly disabling type of stroke, in a CT scan and alerts the stroke team specialist within minutes. Viz has developed deep learning algorithms to analyze brain scans for large vessel occlusions (LVOs), a disabling type of stroke. The company also allows the stroke center’s clinicians to rapidly share images back and forth. Viz's mission is to fundamentally improve how healthcare is delivered in the world, through intelligent software that promises to reduce the time to treatment and improve access to care. Viz was founded in 2016 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Blue Vision Labs

Series A in 2018
Blue Vision Labs is a collaborative Augmented Reality (AR) company that is enabling the next-generation of AR and robotics. The co-founders met seven years ago as a group of entrepreneurial friends and have grown into a team of engineers and researchers from Oxford, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft. They love building things and have a track of winning top programming competitions, research awards, and working on cutting-edge products in robotics, computer vision, and self-driving cars.

Ripcord

Series B in 2017
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Ripcord

Series B in 2017
Ripcord, Inc., a robotic digitization company, develops automation software for robotic digitization. It offers Canopy, a solution that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to capture, enrich, and organize its customers’ important content; and enables enterprises to streamline their business processes. Ripcord, Inc. was formerly known as Ripcord Digital, Inc. and changed its name to Ripcord, Inc. in June 2017. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Orbital Insight

Series C in 2017
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The company operates a cloud-based platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data science to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data. This data includes satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar, and other sources such as unmanned aerial vehicles and geolocation signals. Orbital Insight's technology provides insights into societal and economic trends that are not easily visible, helping organizations understand complex interactions between natural and human activities. Its product offerings include solutions designed for various sectors, such as consumer traffic analysis and monitoring energy supply and infrastructure. The company serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions based on actionable intelligence derived from extensive geospatial data analysis.

Mighty AI

Series B in 2017
Mighty AI delivers training data to companies that build computer vision models for autonomous vehicles. Its platform combines guaranteed accuracy with scale and expertise, thanks to its full stack of annotation software, consulting and managed services, proprietary machine learning, and global community of pre-qualified annotators. Founded in 2014, Mighty AI is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Giphy

Series D in 2016
Giphy is an American online database and search engine that allows users to search, share, and discover the best GIFs. It operates a search engine that enables users to search, share, and discover animated graphics interchange formats (GIFs) on the Internet. Animated GIFs have existed for decades, but there was still no good way to browse and discover the best the web had to offer. And the vision for GIPHY isn’t really just about finding GIFs. It’s a search engine today but soon you’ll see it grow into a community, a platform with a host of features targeted at gif artists, enthusiasts, bloggers, and anyone generally looking to discover or create that next big meme.

Light

Series C in 2016
Light is a depth-sensing and perception technology company that provides automation solutions for automobiles.

Orbital Insight

Series B in 2016
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The company operates a cloud-based platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data science to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data. This data includes satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar, and other sources such as unmanned aerial vehicles and geolocation signals. Orbital Insight's technology provides insights into societal and economic trends that are not easily visible, helping organizations understand complex interactions between natural and human activities. Its product offerings include solutions designed for various sectors, such as consumer traffic analysis and monitoring energy supply and infrastructure. The company serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions based on actionable intelligence derived from extensive geospatial data analysis.

Kindred AI

Series A in 2015
Kindred Systems, Inc. designs and develops artificial intelligence (AI) based robots to solve human problems. Its products include Kindred SORT, an AI powered robotic putwall solution that works with fulfillment center associates to assemble e-commerce orders from batch-picked items; and AutoGrasp, a robotic platform that controls robots to operate with human-like intelligence in dynamic environments. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in San Francisco, California with additional offices in Vancouver and Toronto, Canada.

Orbital Insight

Series A in 2015
Orbital Insight, Inc. is a geospatial analytics company based in Palo Alto, California, established in 2013. The company operates a cloud-based platform that utilizes artificial intelligence, computer vision, and data science to analyze vast amounts of geospatial data. This data includes satellite imagery, synthetic aperture radar, and other sources such as unmanned aerial vehicles and geolocation signals. Orbital Insight's technology provides insights into societal and economic trends that are not easily visible, helping organizations understand complex interactions between natural and human activities. Its product offerings include solutions designed for various sectors, such as consumer traffic analysis and monitoring energy supply and infrastructure. The company serves a diverse clientele, including businesses, governments, and humanitarian organizations, enabling them to make informed decisions based on actionable intelligence derived from extensive geospatial data analysis.

Glimpse

Seed Round in 2014
Glimpse is a new way to meet people through Instagram. They use the data behind your photos to make compelling introductions to people you should know. Glimpse combs your photo history to match you with like-minded people who share similar interests, around you.

Luminate

Series B in 2010
Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make ever image interactive on the web, Luminate offers the world’s first platform for image applications. Developed by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA.

Luminate

Series A in 2009
Luminate, Inc. (previously known as Pixazza, Inc.) is the worldwide leader in making images interactive serving more than 150 million users each month and 30 billion image views per year. Founded in 2008, with the vision to make ever image interactive on the web, Luminate offers the world’s first platform for image applications. Developed by technologists from Netscape and LiveOps, Luminate’s platform combines Internet and crowdsourcing technology to deliver the optimal content relevant to online images. Luminate is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures and Shasta Ventures, with headquarters in Mountain View, CA.
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