Best Image Recognition Companies in Brazil
The 31 best Image Recognition companies in Brazil in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unico.
- Image Recognition Market to Reach USD73.344 Billion by 2026
Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Brazil
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unico 🦄 Provider of digital identity verification and authentication solutions for businesses | $337M | 54 mo ago | Series D | Diego Martins Founder & CEO | 2007 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36 | — |
| 2 | PayFace Online platform for payments in restaurants | $10M | 40 mo ago | Series A | Eladio Isoppo Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityWebflowApple iCloud Mail+16 | — |
| 3 | Legiti AI based fraud detection solution for credit cards | $7M | 57 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 4 | Cyber Labs Provider of AI-based facial recognition solutions for people counting and identification | $5M | 74 mo ago | Series A | — | 2017 | — | — |
| 5 | Visio Provider of video analytics solutions | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | Gabriel Flores Co-Founder | 2017 | Cart FunctionalityWebflowMixpanel+18 | — |
| 6 | Konduto Machine learning based buyer behaviour analyzer | $2M | 113 mo ago | Acquired | Tom Canabarro Co-Founder | 2014 | WordPressMySQLPHP+32 | — |
| 7 | Silverguard App-based platform providing cybersecurity and financial insurance technological solutions | $2M | 17 mo ago | Seed | Flavio Rabelo Barros Co-Founder | 2023 | Squarespace CommerceCart FunctionalitySquarespace+17 | — |
| 8 | Unike Technologies Provides biometric solutions for access, authentication, and authorization | $972K | 75 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Fonseca Co-Founder & CTO | 2018 | — | — |
Top 12 Image Recognition companies in Brazil
#1
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2023 · 8 employees$1.5Mraised▾
App-based platform providing cybersecurity and financial insurance technological solutions. It offers solutions to help victims of financial scams, block scammer accounts by integrating with SOS Golpe, and educate about social engineering scams and digital security literacy.
- May 2025Seed—
- May 2023Seed$1.5M
#2
Unico 🦄Series D · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2007 · 1034 employees$337.3Mraised▾
Provider of digital identity verification and authentication solutions for businesses. The company offers platforms for identity validation, fraud prevention, and digital admission. Solutions include facial biometrics, document verification, and data integration. These tools aim to enhance security, streamline processes, and improve user experience for various industries.
- Apr 2022Series D$100M
- Aug 2021Series C$120.6M
- Sep 2020Series B$107.2M
- Jan 2020Series A$9.6M
#3
Series A · Florianopolis, State of Santa Catarina · founded 2018 · 87 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Online platform for payments in restaurants. It provides a dashboard to monitor transactions. Payment solutions integrated with retail automation software. The payment process does not require cards, cell phones, smartwatches, and other accessories. It can be accessed through the app available on iOS and Android devices.
- Jul 2023Series A$9.2M
- Jun 2022Series A—
- Jun 2020Seed$580K
#4
Seed · Sao Carlos, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2017$2.5Mraised▾
Provider of video analytics solutions. Provides pattern recognition, inventory movement monitoring, load monitoring, queue monitoring, traffic management, and vehicle detection solution. Uses computer vision and artificial intelligence solutions and enables automation of process optimization and auditing.
- Mar 2024Seed$2.5M
#5
Deadpooled · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2019 · 40 employees$7.3Mraised▾
AI based fraud detection solutions for credit cards. It provides solutions for financial crime and chargebacks. It uses a data centric approach and machine learning algorithms to prevent credit card fraud. It also facilitates an automated process for dealing with fraud.
- Jan 2022Series A$7.3M
#6
Series A · Botafogo, Sao Paulo · founded 2017 · 125 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based facial recognition solutions for people counting and identification. It provides users with a people authentication platform which is a computer vision-based access application. It also offers an image interpretation platform that counts people to know the happenings around them and it has the capability to issue alerts and instant updates in cases of crowds. It also provides voice synthesis, transcription and biometrics solutions.
- Sep 2020Series A$5M
#7
Acquired · Sao Paulo, Brazil · founded 2014 · 107 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Konduto is an online fraud detection service that helps e-commerce merchants spot fraud with its Buying Behavior technology. It employs Machine Learning to study the buyer's behaviour from the moment of logging into the website to the point of checkout. It then creates a score to help the merchant identify the safe transactions. For manual interventions, it provides a dashboard to the merchants to review the pattern.
- Jun 2017Seed$2.5M
#8
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2018 · 17 employees$971.9Kraised▾
UNIKE provides biometric solutions for access, authentication, and authorization. The company offers products such as CFTV for identifying people via streaming video on security cameras (CCTV), a mobile application for registration, CORE for monitoring biometric transactions, and WEB for verification of facial biometrics. It provides analytical intelligence about visitors in shopping malls using facial recognition and positioning technology, registration of customers are identified remotely and access is automatically released, physical access with unique identification in commercial and residential buildings, classroom, tests, events and identification, and authentication for educational institutions.
- Jul 2020Seed$581.9K
- Seed$390K
#9
Funding Raised · Marechal Candido Rondon, State of Parana · founded 2009$54.9Kraised▾
Provider of systems for multi-model biometric solutions. It provides users with a company that offers smarter IT solutions, specifically an advanced ERP system for optimization in on-demand logistics and managing courier company branches. They also provide solutions for controlling work hours and privacy.
- Oct 2016Grant (prize money)$54.9K
#10
Acquired · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul · founded 1999 · 205 employees—raised▾
Axur is a cost-effective external cybersecurity solution that empowers security teams to handle threats beyond the perimeter. The platform detects, inspects, and responds to brand impersonation, phishing scams, dark web mentions, threat intel vulnerabilities, and more. With the world's best takedown, Axur removes malicious content quickly and efficiently 24x7, automatically handling 86 percentage of detections. The AI-powered tools scale threat intelligence 180x, freeing your security team to focus on strategic initiatives.
- Jul 2023Series B—
- Series A—
#11
Seed · Sao Paulo, State of Sao Paulo · founded 2020 · 5 employees—raised▾
Software offering anti money laundering and compliance solutions. Monitor transactions with a growth ready solution, high volume processing and the ability to customize rules and rule parameters. Automatic screening of OFAC and UNSC sanctions lists and border area identification.
- May 2022Seed—
#12
Seed · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo · founded 2012 · 10 employees—raised▾
FullFace Biometric Solutions provides facial biometrics-based identity and access management solutions for the enterprise. Its technology creates the facial CPF of each individual, which makes the characteristics of each person a password. Captured image during registration is converted into image data based on the plot system in the face and generates a code that becomes the face of that individual CPF.
- Sep 2018Seed—
- May 2014Angel—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Image Recognition coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Computer Vision is moving in Brazil
A read on the academic research around Computer Vision — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 402 Brazil-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Education52
- Universidade Estadual de Campinas24
- Universidade de São Paulo22
- Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais20
- Universidade Estadual Paulista17
- Convolutional neural network1→33
- Pattern recognition (psychology)2→24
- Generalization1→4
- Convolutional neural network1→38
- Pattern recognition (psychology)1→29
- Identification (biology)1→7
- Transfer of learning1→4
- Pattern recognition (psychology)5
- Feature (linguistics)4
- Convolutional neural network4
- Bridging (networking)3
- Visualization3
Where computer vision is researched across Brazil
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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