Viewdle has built a patented facial recognition system that automatically identifies faces in videos and photos across mobile phones, computers and in the cloud. The technology is the result of over fifteen years of research and three years of commercial productization. Its platform performs real-time, cross-platform visual analysis at the point of capture. The company plans to use new financing to launch consumer products in the coming months. Viewdle has earned early industry recognition, winning startup competitions such as Plugg and Le Web. The articles do not disclose revenue or user metrics. Viewdle builds facial-recognition technology for video, providing tools to index and identify people in video archives. Its platform is used by Reuters to index people in that organization’s video archives. The company has entered a partnership with ROO, a KIT Capital portfolio company focused on IPTV broadcasting, granting ROO full and exclusive access to Viewdle’s white-label technology. Both companies will also work together to promote each other’s services. Viewdle presented at the TechCrunch40 conference. The company has received an unspecified amount of funding from KIT Capital as part of this deal.

Total raised

$10M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Oct 2010