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.

Ron Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Ronald Conway

Founder and Managing Partner

Topher Conway

Managing Partner

Sourav Gupta

Principal

Steven Lee

Partner

Robert Pollak

Partner

Beth Turner

Managing Partner - Seed

Past deals in Image Recognition

Graft

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Graft is a cloud-native platform that uses AI techniques to unlock the value of text, images, video, audio, and graphs. There is no requirement for machine learning skills, no need to hire a team, and no infrastructure to build or maintain.

Hugging Face

Series C in 2022
Hugging Face is a computer software company that provides a software platform that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence. Its platform focuses on developing research papers on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Nanonets

Series A in 2022
NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

CrowdAI

Series A in 2021
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

Inscribe

Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a fraud document detection platform designed to automate the process of identifying fraudulent documents. The company's platform uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision to scan documents, enabling businesses in the financial services sector to streamline onboarding and underwriting processes, reduce fraud losses, and approve customers.

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Seed Round in 2018
Developer of a fraud document detection platform designed to automate the process of identifying fraudulent documents. The company's platform uses a combination of natural language processing and computer vision to scan documents, enabling businesses in the financial services sector to streamline onboarding and underwriting processes, reduce fraud losses, and approve customers.

Hugging Face

Seed Round in 2018
Hugging Face is a computer software company that provides a software platform that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence. Its platform focuses on developing research papers on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Blue Vision Labs

Series A in 2018
Blue Vision Labs Inc. is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in augmented reality and machine perception for self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2016, the company aims to transform interaction between technology, users, and the environment through its innovative augmented reality cloud platform. This platform creates a three-dimensional map of urban spaces, allowing mobile devices to ascertain their location using visual data from cameras. This capability facilitates the development of collaborative augmented reality applications, enabling multiple users to interact with shared content in a precise spatial context. The team comprises engineers and researchers with backgrounds from prestigious organizations, focusing on advancements in robotics, computer vision, and related fields. As of 2018, Blue Vision Labs operates as a subsidiary of Lyft, Inc.

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 company focused on developing artificial intelligence for robotics. It is creating the Covariant Brain, a universal AI system that enables robots to perceive, reason, and interact with their environments. The company specializes in robotics software that utilizes deep imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, and meta-learning techniques. This innovative approach allows clients to program robots with ease by using a virtual reality headset to guide them through specific tasks. Covariant aims to streamline the deployment of robotics across various operations, enhancing efficiency and adaptability in industrial settings.

Ambient.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Ambient.ai specializes in real-time human-level perception technology, focusing on creating intelligent environments that prioritize safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Founded by experts in artificial intelligence, imaging, and deep learning from prominent institutions and companies, the company has garnered support from various Silicon Valley investors. Ambient.ai has developed an AI-powered security platform that enhances organizations' ability to prevent physical security incidents and improve their response capabilities. This platform features near real-time event detection, intuitive search, and cross-network search functionalities, allowing customers to effectively identify and respond to security threats, thereby strengthening their overall security posture.

Nanonets

Seed Round in 2017
NanoNets is machine learning API for developers which requires 1/10th of data and no machine learning expertise to train a model. Upload the data, wait for a few minutes and get a model you can query over their easy to use cloud API. Often companies do not have enough data to train a machine learning model on their own using state of the art algorithms as well as don't have enough data scientists to work on those problems. NanoNets solves both these problems for companies.

Ambient.ai

Seed Round in 2017
Ambient.ai specializes in real-time human-level perception technology, focusing on creating intelligent environments that prioritize safety, efficiency, and sustainability. Founded by experts in artificial intelligence, imaging, and deep learning from prominent institutions and companies, the company has garnered support from various Silicon Valley investors. Ambient.ai has developed an AI-powered security platform that enhances organizations' ability to prevent physical security incidents and improve their response capabilities. This platform features near real-time event detection, intuitive search, and cross-network search functionalities, allowing customers to effectively identify and respond to security threats, thereby strengthening their overall security posture.

DeepScale

Seed Round in 2017
DeepScale is a technology company that develops perceptual systems for semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles. It help automakers use industry-standard low-wattage processors to power more accurate perception. Alongside sensors, mapping, planning and control systems, perception, (sometimes referenced as “computer vision”) enables vehicles to make sense of what’s going on around them in real time.

Hugging Face

Angel Round in 2017
Hugging Face is a computer software company that provides a software platform that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence. Its platform focuses on developing research papers on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

Hugging Face

Pre Seed Round in 2017
Hugging Face is a computer software company that provides a software platform that specializes in conversational artificial intelligence. Its platform focuses on developing research papers on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing systems. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2017
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

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 Inc. is a technology company based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in augmented reality and machine perception for self-driving vehicles. Founded in 2016, the company aims to transform interaction between technology, users, and the environment through its innovative augmented reality cloud platform. This platform creates a three-dimensional map of urban spaces, allowing mobile devices to ascertain their location using visual data from cameras. This capability facilitates the development of collaborative augmented reality applications, enabling multiple users to interact with shared content in a precise spatial context. The team comprises engineers and researchers with backgrounds from prestigious organizations, focusing on advancements in robotics, computer vision, and related fields. As of 2018, Blue Vision Labs operates as a subsidiary of Lyft, Inc.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2016
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

Scaled Inference

Seed Round in 2014
Scaled Inference is a U.S.-based company that operates in stealth mode and offers artificial intelligence as a cloud service. It offers a new generation of intelligent software built by the masses and powered by an open shared platform. Scaled Inference was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Ever

Seed Round in 2013
Ever AI, founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, develops a mobile application designed for storing and organizing digital photos. The company specializes in face recognition technology, offering self-hosted APIs and mobile SDKs that cater to various industries, including retail, payments, autonomous transportation, government and military, law enforcement, and identity management. Leveraging advancements in artificial intelligence and deep learning, Ever AI aims to enhance user experiences through its innovative solutions, which focus on accuracy, security, and convenience in face recognition applications.

imgix

Series A in 2013
imgix is a provider of on-demand image processing for websites and mobile apps. imgix’s API gives developers the power to perform image transformations at scale -- from simple crops and compression down to complex things like changing color profiles and adding watermarks -- in real-time before an image is served. This means images load faster and look better on every screen while saving bandwidth and storage space. imgix is venture-backed, with about $10 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Dropbox, Reddit, Lyft, Kickstarter, Coursera, Bonobos, The Guardian, Brit + Co., 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 Skylabs is a cloud-based video intelligence platform that enhances the functionality of standard video cameras, turning them into effective business tools. Utilizing computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, Prism extracts valuable insights from video data, making the information easily understandable and actionable. The platform is employed by leading companies across 80 countries, helping them to gain a deeper understanding of their operations, manage resources effectively, and drive business growth.

imgix

Seed Round in 2011
imgix is a provider of on-demand image processing for websites and mobile apps. imgix’s API gives developers the power to perform image transformations at scale -- from simple crops and compression down to complex things like changing color profiles and adding watermarks -- in real-time before an image is served. This means images load faster and look better on every screen while saving bandwidth and storage space. imgix is venture-backed, with about $10 million in investment, and was launched through the famed Y Combinator accelerator program. Its customers include Dropbox, Reddit, Lyft, Kickstarter, Coursera, Bonobos, The Guardian, Brit + Co., Bustle, and many others.

Luminate

Series A in 2009
Luminate, Inc., founded in 2008 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, specializes in creating interactive image applications for the web. The company serves over 150 million users monthly, managing approximately 30 billion image views annually. Luminate's platform integrates computer vision, machine learning, and crowdsourcing technology to enhance static images by delivering relevant, layered informational content. This innovative approach allows consumers to engage with images interactively, transforming the way they experience visual content online. Luminate is privately funded by various venture capital firms, including August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, and Shasta Ventures.

SnapTell

Series A in 2007
SnapTell specializes in mobile marketing solutions, offering a highly customizable platform that enables marketers to execute campaigns efficiently. The company is known for its Snap.Send.Get solution, which allows consumers to access marketing content and information conveniently via mobile devices. In addition to marketing services, SnapTell provides visual product search technology through a mobile application that enables users to capture images of in-store products and compare prices across different retailers. This innovative approach enhances brand awareness and drives consumer engagement, ultimately contributing to increased conversion rates and revenue for businesses. SnapTell serves a diverse clientele, including brands, agencies, content owners, publishers, retailers, and operators, by delivering hosted image recognition-based mobile marketing services.

Photobucket

Venture Round in 2006
Photobucket is a prominent photo and video sharing service that allows users to upload, edit, and share their images and videos. With over 100 million registered members, the platform sees the upload of more than four million media files daily from various sources, including the web, smartphones, and digital cameras. Photobucket provides a secure environment for users by actively moderating content to ensure safety while facilitating easy sharing across popular social networks, instant messaging applications, and email. The company, which was formerly known as Ontela, Inc., acquired Photobucket, Inc. from Fox Interactive Media and rebranded itself to focus on enhancing user experience in browsing, sharing, and editing media. Photobucket is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with a regional office in San Francisco, California.

Like.com

Series A in 2005
Like.com operates as a visual search engine that enables users to discover and compare similar products online. Unlike traditional image search engines, it utilizes advanced image recognition technology to index images based on their visual characteristics rather than just metadata or tags. This allows users to search for a wide range of products, including shoes, bags, watches, jewelry, and clothing, without the need for specific search terms. Users can either click on images displayed on Like.com to find similar items or enter descriptive phrases, which the platform translates into mathematical representations of visual signatures. These signatures consist of numerous variables that accurately represent each product's appearance. Future enhancements are expected to include the ability for users to upload images directly for searches, further broadening the scope of product discovery.
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