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Best Image Recognition Companies in Massachusetts, United States

The 35 best Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Transmit Security.

35companies tracked
$731.7Mdisclosed funding
1unicorns
16have raised

Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackWeb popularityPatents & IP focusRecent signals
1Transmit Security 🦄
Customer identity management solution provider
$543M63 mo ago332Rakesh Loonkar
President & Co-Founder
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+36Top 5M——
2Affectiva
Developer of emotion artificial intelligence solutions for media and behavioral research
$60M92 mo ago40
40 → 41 (+2%)
—HubSpot CMS HubFacebook LoginLinkedin Sign-in+18Top 5M214 patents
Emotion AI and affective computing for in‑cab driver monitoring and vehicle interfaces
—
3PaymentWorks
Provider of vendor management software for vendor onboarding and payments
$34M32 mo ago56
56 → 131 (+134%)
Alan Greenblatt
CTO & Co-founder
WordPressMySQLPHP+30Top 500k——
4Neurala
Developer of vision artificial intelligence software for industrial quality inspections
$33M62 mo ago30Anatoli Gorchet
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
HubSpot CMS HubYouTubeHubSpot+19Top 50M74 patents
Edge AI continual learning and on-device anomaly detection using adaptive deep neural networks
—
5InAuth
Digital device intelligence for risk detection and analysis
$31M86 mo ago7———24 patents
Secure device authentication and trusted communication pathways for cross‑channel IoT networks
—
6Ditto Labs
A social photo-based analytics provider
$8M117 mo ago21———34 patents
AI-driven image recognition and financial portfolio synchronization/trade replication systems
—
7FiVerity
AI based cybersecurity solutions for financial institutions
$6M22 mo ago21—HubSpot CMS HubBugHerdGlide.js+17Top 50M——
8FST21
Provider of secure access solutions for multiple applications
$5M156 mo ago—Aharon Zeevi Farkash
Founder & CEO
————
9Confirm IO
Identification & authentication platform for ID document
$4M134 mo ago26———10 patents
AI-driven verification and cryptographic authentication of physical ID document features
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10Nu Mind
NLP platform to create NLP models
$3M41 mo ago9Samuel Bernard
Co-Founder
——6 patents
IoT-based occupancy sensing and network hubs for smart building automation
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11BitRip
Provider of a scannable tape that can store data
$3M40 mo ago7Catherine Chapman
Co-founder
Wix eCommerceWixSentry+23Top 50M——
12Delfigo Security
Provider of biometrics-based IAM solutions
$2M187 mo ago11—————
13AIR Worldwide
Cloud based risk management and assessment solutions for insurance
$836K108 mo ago38—Windows ServerMicrosoft ASP.NETBootstrap+7Top 5M——
14Robbie
Developer of vision-based patient monitoring platform for healthcare environments
$120K74 mo ago8Dani Gonzalez
Co-Founder & Director
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Top 12 Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts

#1
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 21 employees
$6Mraised
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AI based cybersecurity solutions for financial institutions. It offers solutions to banks, credit unions, payment institutions, online lenders, and more. Its features are detecting financial and cyber frauds, identity verification, and more. It offers solutions such as SynthID Detect for identity fraud detection, Portfolio Analyzer for identification of synthetic identity, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 2k LinkedIn followers
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2024Series A$8.5M
  • Apr 2023Seed$4M
  • Mar 2021Seed$2M
  • Dec 2018Grant (prize money)—
Investors
Mendoza Ventures, Fin Capital, Service Provider Capital, Grasshopper Bank, Mendon Venture Partners, MassChallenge
#2
Series A · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2013 · 56 employees
$33.8Mraised
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Provider of vendor management software for vendor onboarding and payments. The software streamlines vendor verification, automates compliance monitoring, and optimizes payables strategy. It facilitates secure vendor data management and aims to reduce vendor fraud risks. The system offers features such as automated sanctions checks and audit trails.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 3.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series A$12M
  • Jun 2022Series A$5.4M
  • May 2020Series A$1.8M
  • Jul 2019Series A$14.5M
Founders & team
Alan GreenblattCTO & Co-founderThayer StewartCEO
Investors
New Heights Capital, Uncommon Denominator
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon Web ServicesAtlassian StatuspageAws Certificate ManagerBabelBootstrap
#3
Series A · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2014 · 332 employees
$543Mraised
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Customer identity management solution provider. It provides a unified development and operational environment for best-of-breed customer identity management, fraud prevention, and identity verification. It is capable of detecting advanced account opening fraud, scan government-issued documents and validate their authenticity. It offers biometric systems for authentication. It protects customers from fraud across all channels and devices. It also delivers options for authenticators including face recognition, eye recognition, voice recognition, fingerprint, OTP, notifications, and pattern drawing.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 23k LinkedIn followers — 13.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Series A$543M
Founders & team
Rakesh LoonkarPresident & Co-FounderMickey BoodaeiChief Executive Officer
Investors
Insight Partners, General Atlantic, Cyberstarts, SYN Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, Geodesic Capital
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailCloudflareCloudflare Bot Management
#4
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2017 · 39 employees
$20Kraised
▾

Developer of AI models for data extraction, reasoning, and knowledge applications. It builds foundation models to help people solve complex problems. It offers AI capabilities including multimodality, routing models, no token input limit, primarily extractive models, temporality understanding, 2-dimensional understanding, vector knowledge graphs, and counterfactuals as metadata. The products include multi modal LLMs for document understanding and a model that orchestrates other AIs and uses tools. The AI models are designed for various data types, including text, documents, tabular data, images, audio, video, time series, signal, and geospatial data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 3.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches · 2 partnerships (incl. OKI) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2025Seed—
  • Oct 2024Seed—
  • Aug 2024Seed—
  • 2019Seed—
Investors
MetLife, Nippon Life Insurance, Wavefx, Techstars, QBE Group, Goldfingr
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCore-JsGoogle AdsGoogle Ads Conversion TrackingGoogle Analytics
#5
Series C · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2006 · 30 employees
$33.1Mraised
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Developer of vision artificial intelligence software for industrial quality inspections. The software helps manufacturers improve their vision inspection processes and automate anomaly and defect detection. It offers a vision artificial intelligence tool that can be retrofitted into existing production line infrastructure. The software provides flexibility to deploy vision artificial intelligence models to meet specific business needs.

Funding rounds
  • Jun 2021Series C$12M
  • May 2020Series B$4.9M
  • Feb 2017Series A$120K
  • Dec 2016Series A$14M
Founders & team
Anatoli GorchetCo-Founder and Chief Technology OfficerHeather Ames VersaceCo-founder and COOMassimiliano VersaceCEO
Investors
Pelion Venture Partners, Draper, Friulia, Antares Vision Group, Idinvest Partners, Zebra
#6
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2009 · 40 employees
$59.7Mraised
▾

Developer of emotion artificial intelligence solutions for media and behavioral research. The company provides tools for understanding consumer engagement with content and products. It offers solutions for ad testing, qualitative research, and entertainment content testing. The company also provides an emotion software development kit.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 41k LinkedIn followers — 24.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jan 2019Series E$26M
  • Apr 2016Series D$14M
  • Aug 2012Series C$12M
  • Jun 2012Grant (prize money)$500K
Investors
B&Y Venture Partners, National Science Foundation, Myrian Capital, Kantar, Horizons Ventures, WPP
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesBootstrapCdnjsCloudflareComplianzCookieyes
#7
Seed · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2022 · 9 employees
$3.1Mraised
▾

NLP platform to create NLP models. It offers solutions to create machine learning models to process text automatically. Its models can be used for content moderation, email routing, news analysis, and other task requiring text understanding.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 7k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Hiring: 2 hiring posts in 12 mo (public) · momentum +2 · hiring: Fullstack Software Engineer – Scala & AI-Powered Development, Machine Learning Scientist, LLM Training
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Mar 2023Seed$3M
  • 2022Seed$500K
Founders & team
Samuel BernardCo-FounderEtienne BernardFounder & CEO
Investors
Y Combinator, Flybridge Capital Partners, big_bets, Carya, Pioneer Fund, Sharpstone
#8
Seed · Belmont, Massachusetts · founded 2019 · 7 employees
$3Mraised
▾

Provider of a scannable tape that can store data. It provides users with a platform that can serve as an alternative to a conventional 2D barcode system. The tape contains a continuous pattern which can be used by the proprietary app to capture and share data.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 1k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • May 2023Seed$3M
Founders & team
Catherine ChapmanCo-founderNicholas DimitrukCo-Founder & CEO
Tech stack
Core-JsDraftpress HfcmElementorFont AwesomeGodaddyGoogle Analytics
#9
Acquired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2010 · 7 employees
$30.8Mraised
▾

Digital device intelligence for risk detection and analysis. The platform offers device identification, risk detection, and analysis capabilities to help organizations limit risk and reduce fraud. The solutions leverage AI, machine learning, and community insights to authenticate users, identify fraudulent activity, and optimize digital transactions.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Grant (prize money)$291.3K
  • Feb 2016Series A$29.9M
  • Jul 2014Seed$835K
Investors
Three Tree Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, Europa, OpenDoor Venture Capital, Commerce Ventures, TAG Holdings
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpCentosTwenty NineteenGutenberg
#10
Series C · Cambridge, Massachusetts · founded 2012 · 21 employees
$7.6Mraised
▾

A social photo-based analytics provider. Provides analytics services to the brands, agencies, and research firms by collecting and organizing the photos containing the brands being posted on social media. Also provides the free live streaming of brand-matched photos and their trends.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Series C—
  • Aug 2015Series A$4M
  • Jun 2014Seed$2.2M
  • Sep 2013Seed$1.4M
Investors
Stage 1 Ventures, Wavemaker Partners, MDC Partners, Griffon Ventures, The Mars Agency, The Whittemore Collection
#11
Deadpooled · Southborough, Massachusetts · founded 2010
$5Mraised
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FST Biometrics aims to provide seamless and secure access at important places. It uses In Motion Identification technology for identifying users at a distance and in motion using a unique fusion of biometric identification technology, provides a software solution to integrate with existing access control systems security infrastructures in a variety of physical settings. It has been specially designed in a way so it can be used in corporate environments, retail showrooms, financial institutions, residential buildings, sports arenas, and airports.

Funding rounds
  • Aug 2013Series A$5M
Founders & team
Aharon Zeevi FarkashFounder & CEO
#12
Acqui-Hired · Boston, Massachusetts · founded 2015 · 26 employees
$4Mraised
▾

Confirm.io provides mobile based identity authentication solution to prevent identity theft by linking physical identification with digital identities. It employs RESTful APIs & mobile SDK for authenticating any government issued ID and provides deployment & integration with mobile and internet applications. Solution confirms a person’s identity for any transaction that requires or benefits from proof of identity.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2015Seed$4M
Investors
Accomplice, Cava, Rho Capital Partners, Zelkova Ventures, GoldenArc Capital, Rho Canada Partners

Funding & investor landscape

$731.7Mtotal disclosed funding
15companies funded
46disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Techstars3 rounds
Europa2 rounds
MIT Startup Exchange2 rounds
MassChallenge2 rounds
Right Side Capital Management2 rounds
Stage 1 Ventures2 rounds
360 Capital Partners1 rounds
ACME1 rounds
Accion1 rounds
Accomplice1 rounds

Notable founders

Alan Greenblatt
CTO & Co-founder · PaymentWorks
Thayer Stewart
CEO · PaymentWorks
Rakesh Loonkar
President & Co-Founder · Transmit Security
Mickey Boodaei
Chief Executive Officer · Transmit Security
Anatoli Gorchet
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer · Neurala
Heather Ames Versace
Co-founder and COO · Neurala
Samuel Bernard
Co-Founder · Nu Mind
Etienne Bernard
Founder & CEO · Nu Mind
Catherine Chapman
Co-founder · BitRip
Nicholas Dimitruk
Co-Founder & CEO · BitRip
Aharon Zeevi Farkash
Founder & CEO · FST21
Dani Gonzalez
Co-Founder & Director · Robbie
Prism market signals · United States · country-scoped Prism corpus, 11,735,586 docs

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

RESEARCH IN MASSACHUSETTS · AI & Compute

How research on Computer Vision in Massachusetts is moving

A read on the academic research around Computer Vision in Massachusetts — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 220 papers.

220 papers · stance +0.59 · 68% breakthrough · 8% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology129
  • Massachusetts General Hospital41
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst24
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell12
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School8
leading researchers
Antonio Torralba · Ameya Daigavane · Claudia Chu · Conor Messer · Julian Hess · Oliver Priebe
prism intelligence · tone & topics
98% positive · 1% critical tone
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer ScienceHealthcareHealthMedical Research
▲ Breakthroughs123 · 56%
▼ 69%→46% share
▼0.7× share momentum464 median citations51% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (69%→46% of field), led by Segmentation.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Segmentation3→12
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)6→13
  • Context (archaeology)1→4
  • Software1→4
  • Annotation1→3
Newly emergingRobustness (evolution) 0→7 · Optical coherence tomography 0→4 · Bounding overwatch 0→3
Landmark Dynamic Graph CNN for Learning on Point Clouds · 6,500 cites
◆ Advancements45 · 20%
21%→21% share
▲1.0× share momentum0 median citations64% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are cooling (21%→21% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network4→9
  • Segmentation1→3
  • Robot1→3
Newly emergingPerception 0→4 · Event (particle physics) 0→3 · Motion (physics) 0→3
Landmark Bilinear CNN Models for Fine-Grained Visual Recognition · 2,043 cites
▼ Concerns14 · 6%
▼ 8%→5% share
▼0.6× share momentum242 median citations50% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns are cooling (8%→5% of field), led by Object (grammar).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Object (grammar)3
  • Segmentation2
  • Perception2
  • Motion (physics)2
  • Convolutional neural network2
Landmark HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition · 3,856 cites

Common questions

How many Image Recognition companies are there in Massachusetts, United States?
Radar tracks 35 indexable Image Recognition companies headquartered in Massachusetts, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts, United States?
The Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts, United States on this list have raised a combined $731.7M in disclosed equity funding across 15 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Massachusetts, United States?
Transmit Security is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Massachusetts, United States, with $543M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts, United States are funded?
15 of the 35 Image Recognition companies in Massachusetts, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Image Recognition unicorns are there in Massachusetts, United States?
1 Image Recognition company in Massachusetts, United States on this list is valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Massachusetts, United States Image Recognition companies?
The most active investors in Massachusetts, United States Image Recognition companies on this list include Techstars, Europa, MIT Startup Exchange, MassChallenge, Right Side Capital Management.
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