European Innovation Council

Established in 2020, the European Innovation Council supports innovative startups and researchers with promising ideas, focusing on early-stage companies with positive environmental, social, or governance impacts. It co-invests alongside private investors.

David Malo Jean

Director

Past deals in Image Recognition

Wooptix

Series C in 2025
Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2014, Wooptix develops innovative imaging technologies. The company specializes in creating three-dimensional modulation of images for enhanced volumetric photography and videography, enabling advanced image post-processing.

AISPECO

Grant in 2024
AISPECO is a Lithuanian company specializing in geospatial monitoring systems for helicopters, planes, UAVs, and terrestrial vehicles.

Methinks

Convertible Note in 2023
Methinks is a developer of a medical imaging platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the diagnosis of brain-related diseases, particularly acute stroke. Utilizing Google's deep learning framework, Tensorflow, Methinks analyzes neuroimaging data to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses. The platform offers a significant advantage by enabling stroke assessments through non-contrast CT scans, thereby eliminating the need for contrast CT and reducing the time required for treatment. This innovative approach enhances communication between radiologists, hospitals, stroke units, and other healthcare professionals, ultimately aiming to improve clinical outcomes in stroke care.

Wooptix

Series B in 2023
Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2014, Wooptix develops innovative imaging technologies. The company specializes in creating three-dimensional modulation of images for enhanced volumetric photography and videography, enabling advanced image post-processing.

Wooptix

Grant in 2023
Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2014, Wooptix develops innovative imaging technologies. The company specializes in creating three-dimensional modulation of images for enhanced volumetric photography and videography, enabling advanced image post-processing.

nyris

Venture Round in 2023
nyris is a visual search platform provider that enables users to find products and objects in images and videos using AI and neural networks. The platform serves multiple industries, including retail and e-commerce, industrial and manufacturing, media and entertainment, and financial services, by delivering fast, unified search results and improved discovery. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin with a second location in Düsseldorf, nyris serves customers across more than 50 countries.

Qurv

Grant in 2023
Qurv, established in 2020, specializes in developing advanced image sensor technologies and integrated solutions. The company's core business is enabling next-generation computer vision applications, catering to the growing demands of autonomous and intelligent systems. Qurv's innovative technology, built on over eight years of research, leverages current CMOS manufacturing and advanced materials to deliver high-performance, reliable, and functional solutions for XR devices, service robots, and automotive industries.

IDloop

Grant in 2023
IDloop develops and sells a contactless fingerprint sensor solution, utilizing 3D imaging, AI, and embedded technology. This solution is designed for business and government markets, offering secure multi-finger image capture to enhance security services.

IDloop

Pre Seed Round in 2022
IDloop develops and sells a contactless fingerprint sensor solution, utilizing 3D imaging, AI, and embedded technology. This solution is designed for business and government markets, offering secure multi-finger image capture to enhance security services.

Methinks

Grant in 2022
Methinks is a developer of a medical imaging platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the diagnosis of brain-related diseases, particularly acute stroke. Utilizing Google's deep learning framework, Tensorflow, Methinks analyzes neuroimaging data to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses. The platform offers a significant advantage by enabling stroke assessments through non-contrast CT scans, thereby eliminating the need for contrast CT and reducing the time required for treatment. This innovative approach enhances communication between radiologists, hospitals, stroke units, and other healthcare professionals, ultimately aiming to improve clinical outcomes in stroke care.

Oivi

Grant in 2022
Oivi is a Norwegian company founded in 2017 and based in Oslo, specializing in the development of an affordable AI-driven camera and platform for the identification of diabetic eye diseases. The company focuses on facilitating retinal screening in primary care settings, thereby promoting awareness and proactive management of diabetic eye health. Oivi's innovative platform employs automated image capture and diagnostic capabilities to monitor eye diseases effectively through teleconsultation. With a multifaceted team possessing extensive expertise in camera and software development, Oivi aims to empower patients to prevent permanent vision loss associated with diabetes.

ariadne

Grant in 2022
Ariadne.ai ag is a contract research organization (CRO) that specializes in automated high-throughput biomedical image analysis and image processing technology. The company offers a scalable and consistent solution to image processing and analysis bottlenecks, allowing R&D teams to concentrate on staining and imaging. Whether customers need to automate an existing workflow or create a new one, Ariadne.ai ag is ready to help, allowing them to scale their experiments.

Wooptix

Venture Round in 2021
Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2014, Wooptix develops innovative imaging technologies. The company specializes in creating three-dimensional modulation of images for enhanced volumetric photography and videography, enabling advanced image post-processing.

Wooptix

Grant in 2021
Founded in Madrid, Spain in 2014, Wooptix develops innovative imaging technologies. The company specializes in creating three-dimensional modulation of images for enhanced volumetric photography and videography, enabling advanced image post-processing.

nyris

Grant in 2021
nyris is a visual search platform provider that enables users to find products and objects in images and videos using AI and neural networks. The platform serves multiple industries, including retail and e-commerce, industrial and manufacturing, media and entertainment, and financial services, by delivering fast, unified search results and improved discovery. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Berlin with a second location in Düsseldorf, nyris serves customers across more than 50 countries.

KinePict

Venture Round in 2020
KinePict develops medical imaging technology that enhances image quality in interventional radiology while reducing contrast agent and radiation exposure. Its proprietary technologies include Digital Variance Angiography, ultrafast cubic spline-fit algorithms, and real-time non-rigid motion correction, enabling safer procedures, more accurate diagnostics, and improved patient outcomes.

KinePict

Grant in 2020
KinePict develops medical imaging technology that enhances image quality in interventional radiology while reducing contrast agent and radiation exposure. Its proprietary technologies include Digital Variance Angiography, ultrafast cubic spline-fit algorithms, and real-time non-rigid motion correction, enabling safer procedures, more accurate diagnostics, and improved patient outcomes.

Methinks

Seed Round in 2020
Methinks is a developer of a medical imaging platform that leverages advanced artificial intelligence techniques to enhance the diagnosis of brain-related diseases, particularly acute stroke. Utilizing Google's deep learning framework, Tensorflow, Methinks analyzes neuroimaging data to facilitate accurate and timely diagnoses. The platform offers a significant advantage by enabling stroke assessments through non-contrast CT scans, thereby eliminating the need for contrast CT and reducing the time required for treatment. This innovative approach enhances communication between radiologists, hospitals, stroke units, and other healthcare professionals, ultimately aiming to improve clinical outcomes in stroke care.

K | Lens

Grant in 2020
K | Lens is a technology startup that develops imaging solutions based on its patented K|Lens technology, a third-dimensional lens capable of capturing color and depth information in a single shot with any standard camera. The technology, invented at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and further developed during an incubation with IT Inkubator, enables control of sharpness and blurring to deliver photorealistic images with DSLR-like quality. This approach helps manufacturers improve efficiency and accuracy in production processes, and ensure product quality.

photonicSENS

Grant in 2020
PhotonicSens is a developer of advanced single-lens 3-dimensional camera modules that generate depth maps and RGB images, capturing intricate details of the environment. The company focuses on enhancing depth perception experiences on mobile devices, facilitating applications such as gesture recognition, face recognition, navigation, and mixed reality. By combining innovative optics with sophisticated algorithms, PhotonicSens has pioneered a technology that allows mobile devices to replicate the human eye's ability to accurately judge distance, positioning itself at the forefront of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

K | Lens

Seed Round in 2020
K | Lens is a technology startup that develops imaging solutions based on its patented K|Lens technology, a third-dimensional lens capable of capturing color and depth information in a single shot with any standard camera. The technology, invented at the Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics at Saarland University and further developed during an incubation with IT Inkubator, enables control of sharpness and blurring to deliver photorealistic images with DSLR-like quality. This approach helps manufacturers improve efficiency and accuracy in production processes, and ensure product quality.

Oivi

Grant in 2020
Oivi is a Norwegian company founded in 2017 and based in Oslo, specializing in the development of an affordable AI-driven camera and platform for the identification of diabetic eye diseases. The company focuses on facilitating retinal screening in primary care settings, thereby promoting awareness and proactive management of diabetic eye health. Oivi's innovative platform employs automated image capture and diagnostic capabilities to monitor eye diseases effectively through teleconsultation. With a multifaceted team possessing extensive expertise in camera and software development, Oivi aims to empower patients to prevent permanent vision loss associated with diabetes.

photonicSENS

Seed Round in 2019
PhotonicSens is a developer of advanced single-lens 3-dimensional camera modules that generate depth maps and RGB images, capturing intricate details of the environment. The company focuses on enhancing depth perception experiences on mobile devices, facilitating applications such as gesture recognition, face recognition, navigation, and mixed reality. By combining innovative optics with sophisticated algorithms, PhotonicSens has pioneered a technology that allows mobile devices to replicate the human eye's ability to accurately judge distance, positioning itself at the forefront of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

TiHive Technologies

Venture Round in 2019
TiHive Technologies develops an advanced imaging and sensing system designed for high-speed, interconnected operation. This system enables multiple devices to work together, forming intelligent networks that detect product defects during in-line production.

TiHive Technologies

Grant in 2019
TiHive Technologies develops an advanced imaging and sensing system designed for high-speed, interconnected operation. This system enables multiple devices to work together, forming intelligent networks that detect product defects during in-line production.

omni:us

Grant in 2019
omni:us specializes in intelligent insurance claim automation. Its Digital Claims Adjuster integrates with existing systems like Guidewire and Sapiens to automate end-to-end claims processes for seven property and casualty lines of business. Powered by AI, it offers a comprehensive claims decision catalog, significantly reducing process costs while enhancing customer satisfaction.

VAYAVISION

Grant in 2019
VayaVision Sensing Ltd. is a technology company that specializes in developing perception engine software aimed at enhancing the safety and efficiency of autonomous driving. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Or Yehuda, Israel, the company offers VAYA-Drive, an artificial intelligence cognition platform that integrates raw data fusion with advanced computer vision techniques. This platform generates comprehensive environmental models, enabling critical functions such as road and free space detection, lane detection, object detection and tracking, and recognition of traffic signs. By utilizing deep learning algorithms, VayaVision delivers a reliable detection and classification system that accurately assesses the size, shape, and velocity of surrounding objects, including small obstacles. This innovative approach not only improves sensing capabilities for autonomous vehicles but also contributes to cost reductions within the automotive industry. Since July 2020, VayaVision has operated as a subsidiary of LeddarTech Inc.
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