SV Angel

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based seed fund founded by Ron Conway, specializing in early-stage investments primarily in the Internet software sector. Established in 1992, the firm distinguishes itself from traditional venture capital by adopting a portfolio approach, investing in a larger number of companies while refraining from taking board seats. This allows SV Angel to focus on providing extensive business development, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic advice to its portfolio companies. Over the years, SV Angel has supported numerous high-profile startups, including Facebook, Google, and Airbnb. The firm continues to leverage its extensive network to facilitate growth and innovation within the companies it invests in, aiming to foster a thriving startup ecosystem across the United States.

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.

Graft

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Graft is a Modern AI platform enabling data teams to build production-ready AI solutions in a few clicks. No machine learning skills, no need to hire a team, and no infrastructure to build or maintain. Take a data-centric approach that leverages foundation models to drive better business outcomes today.

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.

Nanonets

Series A in 2022
Nanonets is an AI-driven solution that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. Leveraging advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order processing and insurance underwriting. Nanonets processes unstructured documents such as invoices, receipts, purchase orders, contracts, claims, and forms and converts them into structured output. By integrating with your existing systems via APIs, Nanonets can reduce manual effort by up to 90%, delivering industry-leading accuracy, speed, and cost savings of up to 50%.

CrowdAI

Series A in 2021
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Inscribe offers a way for fintech and financial services organizations to automate their manual reviews, reduce fraud losses, and increase decision accuracy. By automating document reviews and improving fraud detection, companies can increase efficiency and reduce operational costs. Founded in 2017, Inscribe is trusted by leading companies like BlueVine, Petal, Fair, and Ramp. With investors from Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Crosslink Capital, and Foundry Group, Inscribe has a global footprint with locations in North America and Europe.

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Inscribe offers a way for fintech and financial services organizations to automate their manual reviews, reduce fraud losses, and increase decision accuracy. By automating document reviews and improving fraud detection, companies can increase efficiency and reduce operational costs. Founded in 2017, Inscribe is trusted by leading companies like BlueVine, Petal, Fair, and Ramp. With investors from Y Combinator, Uncork Capital, Crosslink Capital, and Foundry Group, Inscribe has a global footprint with locations in North America and Europe.

Hugging Face

Seed Round in 2018
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.

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.

Mirror Emoji Keyboard

Seed Round in 2017
Mirror uses a single selfie to instantly create hundreds of emoji that look like you and your friends. You can then use these in all messengers.

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.

Ambient.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Ambient.ai is an AI-powered physical security platform integrating computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents. The company specializes in real-time human-level perception technology that enables intelligent environments that are safe, efficient, and sustainable.

Nanonets

Seed Round in 2017
Nanonets is an AI-driven solution that automates document processing and data extraction workflows. Leveraging advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and deep learning models, Nanonets helps companies automate document-heavy business processes like accounts payable, order processing and insurance underwriting. Nanonets processes unstructured documents such as invoices, receipts, purchase orders, contracts, claims, and forms and converts them into structured output. By integrating with your existing systems via APIs, Nanonets can reduce manual effort by up to 90%, delivering industry-leading accuracy, speed, and cost savings of up to 50%.

Ambient.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Ambient.ai is an AI-powered physical security platform integrating computer vision intelligence and camera infrastructure to sensor and prevent security incidents. The company specializes in real-time human-level perception technology that enables intelligent environments that are safe, efficient, and sustainable.

Hugging Face

Angel Round in 2017
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.

Hugging Face

Pre Seed Round in 2017
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.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.

Skymind

Venture Round in 2016
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Skymind

Seed Round in 2016
Skymind Inc. is a business intelligence and enterprise software company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2014. The company specializes in developing solutions that classify, cluster, and predict outcomes across various data types, including text, images, video, time series, and sound, to identify patterns that can influence business decisions. Skymind is known for its open-source deep-learning framework, Deeplearning4j, which is designed for use in production environments, and ND4J, a scientific computing library optimized for performance and minimal memory usage. In addition to its core offerings, Skymind's technologies enable businesses to leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to enhance their operational efficiency and decision-making processes.

Blue Vision Labs

Seed Round in 2016
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.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2016
CrowdAI enables anyone to create high quality, custom machine learning models to analyze imagery and video—no data science background or coding required. Our full-stack solution to machine learning provides all the tools necessary to go from raw pixels to structured data and insights relevant to your specific needs. CrowdAI’s platform streamlines the process of creating and deploying machine learning models, making it approachable and intuitive to anyone in the enterprise. The models created on our platform aren’t just for reports and charts: by putting them into a production environment, you can use real-time data to make real operational decisions.

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.).

imgix

Series A in 2013
Nobody should have to employ expensive imaging scientists and engineers for their business to get the most out of their images. This is where imgix has your back. imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering your existing images so that you can meet the demands of your business and your team can stay focused on what they do best. The business demands on web images can blindside even the most hyper-aware content teams and developers. Just to be competitive on the Internet, you need your images to be sized perfectly to every device, served in one of any of a half dozen web formats, optimized to the absolute best perceptual quality while maintaining pinpoint performance, and distributed to wherever your users are, anywhere in the world. And that is just the baseline. Next-level imaging concerns like copyright, licensing, accessibility, moderation, illegal or explicit content, "fake news", and more, can threaten your business at any moment if not handled properly. Get any of these things wrong and you are shedding revenue, ceding ground to competitors, and potentially exposing your business to extreme liability. By working with imgix's powerful APIs, SDKs, user interfaces, and integrations, you can rest assured that any demands on your images will always be met, now and into the future, without you having to invest in building it yourself or patching together a mishmash of open source and third-party technologies. Our platform is designed to ensure that your images are always working for your business and never against it. imgix is venture-backed, with about $11 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Lyft, Kickstarter, AirBnb, Coursera, Bonobos, Spotify, Vimeo, Bustle, and many others.

Picturelife

Series A in 2012
The Picturelife team is a group of accomplished software engineers and designers that came together to solve a frustrating problem that everyone has: keeping our pictures safe and secure. It takes a fraction of a second to capture a memory that's meant to last forever, but just an instant to lose it to a thief, data corruption, or natural disaster. That’s why we built Picturelife. We’ve been working hard to make Picturelife the service we always wanted. We want our pictures safely backed because we're afraid of losing them. We value our privacy so we built Picturelife to be private and secure by default. And we're always on the go, so we made Picturelife accessible from any computer or device with an Internet connection.

Prism Skylabs

Seed Round in 2011
Prism is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that transforms ordinary cameras into powerful business tools. Through computer vision, A.I., and machine learning, Prism unlocks valuable information from video that can be immediately understood, shared and acted upon. Leading companies in 80 countries around the world use Prism to better understand, manage and grow their business

imgix

Seed Round in 2011
Nobody should have to employ expensive imaging scientists and engineers for their business to get the most out of their images. This is where imgix has your back. imgix is a platform for managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering your existing images so that you can meet the demands of your business and your team can stay focused on what they do best. The business demands on web images can blindside even the most hyper-aware content teams and developers. Just to be competitive on the Internet, you need your images to be sized perfectly to every device, served in one of any of a half dozen web formats, optimized to the absolute best perceptual quality while maintaining pinpoint performance, and distributed to wherever your users are, anywhere in the world. And that is just the baseline. Next-level imaging concerns like copyright, licensing, accessibility, moderation, illegal or explicit content, "fake news", and more, can threaten your business at any moment if not handled properly. Get any of these things wrong and you are shedding revenue, ceding ground to competitors, and potentially exposing your business to extreme liability. By working with imgix's powerful APIs, SDKs, user interfaces, and integrations, you can rest assured that any demands on your images will always be met, now and into the future, without you having to invest in building it yourself or patching together a mishmash of open source and third-party technologies. Our platform is designed to ensure that your images are always working for your business and never against it. imgix is venture-backed, with about $11 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Lyft, Kickstarter, AirBnb, Coursera, Bonobos, Spotify, Vimeo, Bustle, and many others.

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.

SnapTell

Series A in 2007
SnapTell provides a highly customizable and integrated mobile marketing solution. With their Snap.Send. Get solution, marketers can deploy mobile marketing campaigns quickly and effectively. The SnapTell solution enables consumers to easily access marketing content and information on the go, driving brand awareness, conversion, and revenues.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2006
Photobucket is the world's leading dedicated photo and video sharing service. With over 100 million registered members, Photobucket users upload over four million images and videos per day from the Web, Smartphones, and connected digital cameras. Photobucket hosts, preserves and protects photos and videos while bringing members the very best browsing, sharing and editing experiences. In addition to uploading and sharing with friends and family on the Photobucket site, users can also instantly share memories across all of the most popular social networks, instant messenger applications, through email, and from their mobile phones. In order to ensure a safe environment for members and partners, Photobucket actively moderates the content posted on the site. Photobucket, Corp. was previously Ontela, Inc. Ontela acquired Photobucket, Inc from Fox Interactive Media, adopted the Photobucket brand, and changed its name to Photobucket Corp. Photobucket, Corp.'s headquarters are in Denver, Colorado with a regional office in San Francisco, California.
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