Wayra UK

Wayra UK is the corporate venture arm and accelerator of Wayra, the global open-innovation program of Telefónica. It runs accelerator programs for early-stage technology startups across industries including health care, information technology, cybersecurity, smart transport and smart city, and 5G, providing investment and acceleration support. The unit connects startups with Telefónica’s networks and partners to enable collaboration and scale opportunities, aiming to generate joint business opportunities between innovators and Telefónica. As part of a worldwide network spanning multiple countries, Wayra UK positions itself as a bridge between entrepreneurs and corporate-scale opportunity, facilitating access to capital, mentorship, and business development.

Marta Antunez

Bruno Moraes

Managing Director

Gary Stewart

Director

Kyle Tsai

Investor

Past deals in Image Recognition

Legit Health

Venture Round in 2024
Legit Health specializes in providing personalized skincare solutions through innovative dermatological diagnostic systems. The company leverages advanced computer vision and artificial intelligence technologies to enhance the diagnosis and treatment of skin diseases. By utilizing image recognition and AI-driven recommendations, Legit Health enables dermatologists to make informed clinical decisions, improve diagnostic accuracy, and monitor the progression of various skin conditions, including chronic and malignant lesions. Their approach not only aims to offer affordable healthcare assistance but also strives to enhance the overall effectiveness of dermatological care.

Roadio (Formerly Streetlogic)

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Developer of an advanced driver assistance system(ADAS) designed for two wheelers. The company offers a lightweight, low-power collision warning system that consists of two fisheye cameras, a powerful processing unit, and advanced artificial intelligence to detect and notify riders of threats in real-time, enabling them to get notified of hazards around them and avoid collisions to keep them safe.

Pixoneye

Series A in 2016
Pixoneye is a data analytics SaaS company, which analyses and provides consumer insights via platform dashboard by using machine learning on mobile users' photo-galleries to create advanced user segmentations. They harness the full potential of image understanding on mobile devices to provide the ultimate key to capture the consumer's ever-changing needs. They redefine personalized marketing by offering unparalleled predictive accuracy and actionable clustering and can be integrated with client's CRM system, marketing automation, and/or ad-serving platform, etc. Pixoneye's picture-perfect solutions ensure you'll never be left out of the consumer's picture.

Visual Tagging Sevices

Grant in 2016
VTS has developed a set of solutions that turn any printed image or online video into interactive. VTS is a spinoff of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and the Computer Vision Center based in the research done in the last five years in the field of Pattern Recognition. For more information, please visit VTS at: www.visual-tagging.com

Pixoneye

Seed Round in 2015
Pixoneye is a data analytics SaaS company, which analyses and provides consumer insights via platform dashboard by using machine learning on mobile users' photo-galleries to create advanced user segmentations. They harness the full potential of image understanding on mobile devices to provide the ultimate key to capture the consumer's ever-changing needs. They redefine personalized marketing by offering unparalleled predictive accuracy and actionable clustering and can be integrated with client's CRM system, marketing automation, and/or ad-serving platform, etc. Pixoneye's picture-perfect solutions ensure you'll never be left out of the consumer's picture.

VTX

Seed Round in 2015
VTX is a technology company specializing in image recognition software designed to enhance the retail experience. Their Fast Recognition Platform (FRP) allows users to take a photo of a product and receive instant identification, enabling them to make purchases with just three clicks. This streamlined process bridges the gap between online and offline shopping, creating a virtual store accessible in everyday environments. VTX's solution is already implemented across various sectors, including healthcare, footwear, electronics, and books. The company has garnered recognition from Startup Brazil, a government initiative supporting technology startups, and is currently being accelerated by Wayra, a startup accelerator affiliated with Telefónica.

Lobster

Angel Round in 2015
Lobster is a platform that facilitates the licensing of visual content directly from social media users, catering to brands, agencies, and media outlets. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Lobster efficiently scans major social networks and prominent cloud storage providers to source billions of authentic images and videos. This service addresses the challenge of finding high-quality, relevant content that aligns with specific brand narratives or media campaigns. By employing image recognition and metadata analysis, Lobster's algorithm identifies original and genuine content created by everyday individuals. The platform simplifies the process of acquiring visual assets, allowing users to access a diverse range of media without the complexities of copyright concerns.

GiveVision

Seed Round in 2015
GiveVision develops smart glasses designed to assist blind and partially sighted individuals. Their technology acts as an intelligent companion, recognizing text, people, places, and objects to provide relevant information, enhancing mobility and independence.

Beautifeye

Seed Round in 2014
Beautifeye is an image analysis SaaS platform capable of automatically extracting marketing insights from social network photos. We believe that there is a vast reserve of untapped data widely available online. There are more than two billion images uploaded on social networks each and every day. We know that brands using exclusively text-based analytics cannot see these images - Beautifeye can. With our tools, brands can see their customers' engagement with their product, and elicit actionable marketing insights from these images. We sell to brands to help them measure the sentiment of their customers. Currently, they are struggling with exclusively text-based tools that cannot see the 2Bn+ images shared every day on social networks. Images are the most engaging, powerful & common media on social networks. Beautifeye gives marketers powerful eyes to see their customers' images. We analyse these images and provide actionable insights about products and consumers. We use a highly novel approach involving cutting edge Computer Vision & Machine Learning and we use the abundant images that are already out there, shared by the consumers themselves. We process and analyse images on a large scale, with significant savings on time and cost for our customers. The market for image-mining is newer and more interesting than text-mining because people react in a deeper way to images and images are open to more interpretation than text.

VTX

Grant in 2014
VTX is a technology company specializing in image recognition software designed to enhance the retail experience. Their Fast Recognition Platform (FRP) allows users to take a photo of a product and receive instant identification, enabling them to make purchases with just three clicks. This streamlined process bridges the gap between online and offline shopping, creating a virtual store accessible in everyday environments. VTX's solution is already implemented across various sectors, including healthcare, footwear, electronics, and books. The company has garnered recognition from Startup Brazil, a government initiative supporting technology startups, and is currently being accelerated by Wayra, a startup accelerator affiliated with Telefónica.

Skin Analytics

Seed Round in 2014
Skin Analytics is a London-based company that uses smartphone imagery and artificial intelligence to create a digital history of a patient’s skin, enabling clinicians to measure changes over time, assess treatment options, and support early detection of skin cancers such as melanoma. Its platform analyzes images of moles and skin lesions to monitor progression, standardize patient management, and potentially reduce diagnostic wait times, with applications spanning consumer skin health and clinical settings, including use within the NHS.

Cono-C

Seed Round in 2014
Telling the story of cone-c is not easy, involves recognizing exemplary people backed institutions that have supported the project relentlessly during this time: La Salle University, the IMEF and world champion robotics team dotMX The idea stems from the technological success developed by Verstand Labs, a company based embedded vision systems, recognition in the scientific and entrepreneurial community in the country, why the minds of experts in business strategies to be used in business intelligence. It was so when we decided Joining our analytical talents, scientific, human and business to create the first company dedicated to the generation of high-value insights to the market from the perspective of the customer.

Lobster

Seed Round in 2014
Lobster is a platform that facilitates the licensing of visual content directly from social media users, catering to brands, agencies, and media outlets. Utilizing advanced AI technology, Lobster efficiently scans major social networks and prominent cloud storage providers to source billions of authentic images and videos. This service addresses the challenge of finding high-quality, relevant content that aligns with specific brand narratives or media campaigns. By employing image recognition and metadata analysis, Lobster's algorithm identifies original and genuine content created by everyday individuals. The platform simplifies the process of acquiring visual assets, allowing users to access a diverse range of media without the complexities of copyright concerns.

Skin Analytics

Grant in 2014
Skin Analytics is a London-based company that uses smartphone imagery and artificial intelligence to create a digital history of a patient’s skin, enabling clinicians to measure changes over time, assess treatment options, and support early detection of skin cancers such as melanoma. Its platform analyzes images of moles and skin lesions to monitor progression, standardize patient management, and potentially reduce diagnostic wait times, with applications spanning consumer skin health and clinical settings, including use within the NHS.

Veronica Core

Seed Round in 2014
Veronica is a company based in Peru that specializes in cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions for security applications. The company focuses on identifying objects and events in live video feeds from security cameras. Its platform automates the triggering of alerts, messages, and notifications to security personnel and law enforcement agencies, thereby enhancing the safety and response capabilities of its clients. By providing a media analytic platform, Veronica helps organizations reduce risks associated with security breaches and improve their overall surveillance effectiveness.

Skin Analytics

Seed Round in 2013
Skin Analytics is a London-based company that uses smartphone imagery and artificial intelligence to create a digital history of a patient’s skin, enabling clinicians to measure changes over time, assess treatment options, and support early detection of skin cancers such as melanoma. Its platform analyzes images of moles and skin lesions to monitor progression, standardize patient management, and potentially reduce diagnostic wait times, with applications spanning consumer skin health and clinical settings, including use within the NHS.

PixelPin

Seed Round in 2013
PixelPin develops biometric and image-based authentication solutions for mobile and web applications. The company provides a biometrics-based authentication platform designed to replace passwords, supporting features such as document verification, facial recognition, liveness checks, age estimation, and biometric deduplication, with an emphasis on privacy-preserving authentication. Its technology enables organizations, including financial services, governments, and service providers, to securely onboard users and reduce identity fraud.

PixelPin

Seed Round in 2012
PixelPin develops biometric and image-based authentication solutions for mobile and web applications. The company provides a biometrics-based authentication platform designed to replace passwords, supporting features such as document verification, facial recognition, liveness checks, age estimation, and biometric deduplication, with an emphasis on privacy-preserving authentication. Its technology enables organizations, including financial services, governments, and service providers, to securely onboard users and reduce identity fraud.
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