Lux Capital

Lux Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2000, with offices in New York City and Silicon Valley. The firm specializes in founding, seed, early-stage, and growth investments, primarily in the physical and life sciences, as well as sectors such as biochemistry, material science, aerospace, and advanced technologies like machine learning and synthetic biology. Lux Capital actively supports entrepreneurs in developing successful businesses, leveraging its extensive expertise to enhance the connectivity and competitive edge of its portfolio companies. With assets under management totaling approximately $4 billion, the firm has played a significant role in founding over 20 companies, focusing on high-growth opportunities and innovative solutions across diverse industries.

Past deals in Image Recognition

Together AI

Seed Round in 2023
Together AI is a cloud-based platform designed for constructing open-source generative AI and infrastructure for developing AI models. The company contributes cutting-edge open-source research, models, and datasets to push the boundaries of AI forward. Through its decentralized cloud services, developers and researchers at organizations of various scales are empowered to train, refine, and deploy generative AI models.

Hugging Face

Series C in 2022
Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

Clarifai

Series C in 2021
Clarifai is a leading, full-lifecycle deep learning AI platform for computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. We help organizations transform unstructured images, video, text, and audio data into structured data at a significantly faster and more accurate rate than humans would be able to do on their own. Founded in 2013 by Matt Zeiler, Ph.D. Clarifai has been a market leader in AI since winning the top five places in image classification at the 2013 ImageNet Challenge. Clarifai continues to grow with employees remotely based throughout the United States, Canada, Estonia, Argentina & India.

OpenSpace

Series C in 2021
OpenSpace develops an automated 360 video job site capture and mapping. Its construction photo documentation software captures images every half-second and automatically ties them to project plans. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Runway

Series A in 2020
Runway is an applied AI research company building for the next era of art, entertainment, and human creativity. It is an AI-powered video editing platform for professionals. Its tools use original image and video creation techniques inventing interfaces for synthetic manipulation and editing using text to edit video and create a video, enabling artists, designers, and filmmakers to get an intuitive and simple visual interface.

OpenSpace

Series B in 2020
OpenSpace develops an automated 360 video job site capture and mapping. Its construction photo documentation software captures images every half-second and automatically ties them to project plans. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Rosebud AI

Seed Round in 2020
Rosebud is building the AI Roblox. We will make it dramatically easier for a community to create and enjoy the games of their dreams.

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.

Hugging Face

Series A in 2019
Hugging Face is an open-source and platform provider of machine learning technologies. Their aim is to democratize good machine learning, one commit at a time. Hugging Face was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in New York City.

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.

Caper

Series A in 2019
Caper (caper.ai) focuses on compacting Amazon-Go's technology (image recognition, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence) into a smart shopping cart, allowing each shopper to throw her groceries into the cart and self-checkout without cashiers. The technology is looking to fundamentally transform physical retail and rapidly scale into existing grocery stores.

OpenSpace

Series A in 2019
OpenSpace develops an automated 360 video job site capture and mapping. Its construction photo documentation software captures images every half-second and automatically ties them to project plans. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Visla Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Visla Labs is a startup that is constructing the sci-fi future of healthcare. They have venture capital backing and are rapidly approaching an inflection point.

Cape Analytics

Series B in 2018
Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at the time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill.

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.

Covariant

Seed Round in 2017
Covariant is a developer of artificial intelligence for robotics. Covariant is building the Covariant Brain, a universal AI to give robots the ability to see, reason and act on the world around them.

OpenSpace

Seed Round in 2017
OpenSpace develops an automated 360 video job site capture and mapping. Its construction photo documentation software captures images every half-second and automatically ties them to project plans. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

Deep Sentinel

Series A in 2017
Founded by serial entrepreneur David Selinger, Deep Sentinel is betting that its emphasis on user experience can provide needed differentiation in the crowded space. The company is producing a series of cameras powered by deep learning that can evaluate threats on a property. This is the same technology that automakers are using for self-driving cars and companies like Facebook use to identify people and objects within your photos. The system is designed to consume video streams and other contextual information to analyze threats facing a home.

Pinscreen

Seed Round in 2017
Pinscreen is an American technology company and VFX studio that develops the most advanced generative AI technologies for film production and interactive experiences with its headquarter in Los Angeles and branch in Abu Dhabi (UAE). The company offers end-to-end solutions for AI lip sync, face reenactment, face swaps, de-aging, and avatar digitization. Pinscreen works with some of the most prolific film makers and production studios, and its customers include Netflix, Amazon Studios, Miramax, Warner Bros, Apple, Google, Adobe, DARPA. Among its accolades, in 2019, Pinscreen developed the first real-time deepfake technology which was presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and SIGGRAPH 2020. The company is also the first to demonstrate AI lip sync for a complete feature film, and the ability to process over thousands of 4K HDR movie shots within a year. Pinscreen is part of the NVIDIA Inception Program and won the Epic MegaGrants in 2020. Pinscreen was founded in 2015 by Prof. Hao Li, MIT TR35 winner and Professor of Computer Vision at MBZUAI. He is known for his contributions in Apple’s Animoji technology, the reenactment of Paul Walker in Furious 7, and actively innovates in the space of neural rendering, deepfakes, and digital humans.

Arraiy

Seed Round in 2017
Headquartered in Palo Alto, Arraiy is building the premier AI-driven production platform for the motion picture and television industry. Arraiy is collaborating with major studios, industry veterans, and award-winning artists to re-invent the filmmaking process with machine learning at its foundation. With its products, Arraiy seeks to enhance the creative freedom of storytellers and unlock the next generation of visual storytelling.

Cape Analytics

Series A in 2016
Cape Analytics uses deep learning and geospatial imagery to provide instant property intelligence for buildings across the United States. Cape Analytics enables insurers and other property stakeholders to access valuable property attributes at the time of underwriting—with the accuracy and detail that traditionally required an on-site inspection, but with the speed and coverage of property record pre-fill.

LensBricks INC

Seed Round in 2015
LensBricks aims to democratize imaging for insights. LensBricks was founded by luminaries in the field of computational imaging, computer vision and big data. The team has vast experience in combining camera hardware, software and cloud to spawn new forms of imaging and unique visual experiences to the market.

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.

Scaled Inference

Seed Round in 2014
Scaled Inference their platform enables their customers to enhance and enable their software systems and products like (websites, mobile apps, servers, etc.).

Orbital Insight

Seed Round in 2014
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.
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