Best Image Recognition Companies in Netherlands
The 51 best Image Recognition companies in Netherlands in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: FRISS.
- Image Recognition Market to Reach USD73.344 Billion by 2026
Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Netherlands
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FRISS Provider of trust automation platform for property and casualty insurance carriers 62AI top 20%Moat top 22%Talent top 28%Funding top 36% All 10 signals ▾AItop 20% Moattop 22% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 36% Globaltop 44% Markettop 46% Producttop 49% Techtop 50% Growthbottom 35% Newsbottom 24% AI: Classified as an AI company Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 8/10 · Soonicorn rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $89M | 57 mo ago | Series B | Jeroen Morrenhof Co-Founder | 2006 | Framer SitesReactAmazon Web Services+17 | — | — |
| 2 | SurePay Provider of financial fraud management platform | $14M | 59 mo ago | Series B | Marcel Rienties Founder | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+26 | — | — |
| 3 | ThreatFabric Provider of mobile threat intelligence and fraud risk management solutions 53Growth top 35%Funding top 38%Tech top 45%AI top 45% All 10 signals ▾Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 38% Techtop 45% AItop 45% Moattop 47% Patentstop 49% Talentbottom 49% Innovationbottom 48% Marketbottom 40% Globalbottom 36% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo Funding: Raised $12.6M across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 3 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $13M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Cengiz Sahin Founder & Owner | 2018 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+22 | 4 patents Machine‑learning based fraud detection and anomaly monitoring for financial transactions | 1 award |
| 4 | Sentinels API-based transaction monitoring solutions for financial institutions | $10M | 58 mo ago | Acquired | Joost van Houten Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Imagr.ai Provider of AI-based smart shopping cart solutions for retail businesses | $10M | 78 mo ago | Seed | Konstantinos Raptis Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | VisionLabs Provider of facial recognition solutions using computer vision techniques | $6M | 104 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | 12 patents Biometric authentication integration for payment terminals and mobile devices | 1 partnership |
| 7 | Fraudio AI and SaaS-enabled AML solutions for payment service providers and merchant acquirers 45AI top 20%Growth top 35%Talent bottom 49%Tech bottom 48% All 7 signals ▾AItop 20% Growthtop 35% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 48% Fundingbottom 41% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 32% AI: Classified as an AI company Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $3M | 17 mo ago | Series A | Joao Moura CEO | 2019 | WebflowPipedriveLeadfeeder+18 | — | 1 award |
| 8 | 20Face Face recognition software for identity management and access control 32AI top 18%Growth top 45%Tech top 45%Moat top 45% All 11 signals ▾AItop 18% Growthtop 45% Techtop 45% Moattop 45% Talentbottom 49% Fundingbottom 45% Innovationbottom 37% Patentsbottom 31% Globalbottom 31% Marketbottom 20% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company · Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Growth: Web rank 10,000,000 → 50,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 32/100 | $1M | 23 mo ago | Seed | Peter Hoekstra CEO | 2016 | WordPressSentryMySQL+24 | 4 patents Improving facial recognition accuracy via image quality assessment and eye‑occlusion detection. | — |
| 9 | Tykn Identity and access management system | $1M | 85 mo ago | Seed | Jimmy J.P. Snoek Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 10 | Klippa solution for expense management | $1M | 76 mo ago | Acquired | Robert Verheggen Co-Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+24 | — | — |
| 11 | Crayonic Provider of cloud & fingerprint-based authentication systems | $1M | 68 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Pixyle Developer of an AI platform for fashion product data management | $1M | 43 mo ago | Seed | Svetlana Kordumova Founder & CEO | 2018 | WebflowGSAPPostHog+15 | — | — |
| 13 | Adimec Platform offering imaging technologies for industrial defect detection | $670K | 32 mo ago | Acquired | Joost Van Kuijk CEO/CMO | 1992 | WordPress Block EditorwpBakeryWordPress+32 | — | — |
Top 12 Image Recognition companies in Netherlands
#1
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2018 · 40 employees$12.6Mraised▾
Provider of mobile threat intelligence and fraud risk management solutions. It offers tools to understand criminal tactics and prevent losses. The company's solutions aim to safeguard web and mobile channels. It focuses on detecting fraud, scams, account takeover, and device takeover. The company utilizes AI-powered technology to identify threats.
- Oct 2025Seed—
- Dec 2024Seed—
- May 2023Seed$12.6M
#2
Series A · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2019 · 30 employees$3.3Mraised▾
AI and SaaS-enabled AML solutions for payment service providers and merchant acquirers. It features fraud prevention, transaction monitoring, APIs for integration into existing payment infrastructures, and more. It provides solutions for merchant risk monitoring, AML detection, payment fraud detection, and more.
- Mar 2025Series A—
- May 2021Seed$3.3M
#3
Seed · Enschede, Overijssel · founded 2016 · 10 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Face recognition software for identity management and access control. Product glimpse facial recognition technology for embedded, mobile, and real-time applications, provides facial recognition based on the input of a single picture or a small part of the face, independent of light conditions, pose variations, or image resolution.
- Aug 2024Seed$1.4M
- Sep 2018Seed—
#4
Series B · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2006 · 208 employees$88.7Mraised▾
Provider of trust automation platform for property and casualty insurance carriers. The platform helps automate risk assessment processes behind every customer interaction. It analyzes policy requests, renewals, and claims for trustworthiness, flagging high risks. The platform offers solutions for underwriting, claims, and investigations.
- Nov 2021Series B$6M
- Jul 2021Series B$65M
- Dec 2017Series A$17.7M
#5
Series B · Utrecht, Utrecht · founded 2016 · 85 employees$14.4Mraised▾
Provider of payee confirmation services intended to assure that payments are going to the right recipient. The company assists financial institutions and organizations in the process of confirming the payee's name match the name on the intended recipient's bank account, enabling clients to avoid misdirected payments and reduce push payment fraud.
#6
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2020 · 102 employees$10.4Mraised▾
API-based transaction monitoring solutions for financial institutions. It offers a detection engine with predefined and customizable scenarios; comparison of client's transaction data with relevant peer's data; report on risk assessment quality, team performance, and workload improvements; an overview on account activity, risk level, historical alerts, and more.
- Sep 2021Seed—
- Jun 2021Seed$7M
#7
Acquired · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 1992$669.7Kraised▾
Platform offering imaging technologies for industrial defect detection. It provides high-performance cameras and related tools used in manufacturing environments for precision inspection. The platform supports applications such as quality control, error identification, and process optimization.
- Dec 2023Grant (prize money)$669.7K
#8
Seed · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2015$9.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based smart shopping cart solutions for retail businesses. It utilize camera-based AI technology to detect and label products.
- Jan 2020Seed$9.5M
#9
Seed · s Hertogenbosch, North Brabant · founded 2018 · 45 employees$1Mraised▾
Developer of an AI platform for fashion product data management. The platform transforms images into structured data, powering search and discovery. It offers solutions for automatic tagging, description generation, and product categorization. The platform provides tools for data foundation and discovery, enhancing product visibility.
- Dec 2022Seed$1M
- Nov 2018Seed—
#10
Acquired · Amsterdam, North Holland · founded 2012 · 95 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of facial recognition solutions using computer vision techniques. It provides facial recognition solutions using computer vision techniques. Its product portfolio includes a proprietary facial recognition engine, and a biometric data management system for facial verification and identification. Its features include facial recognition, object detection, augmented reality, and virtual reality. It provides solutions for the security, banking, retail, and transportation sectors.
- Nov 2017Series A—
- Jul 2016Series A$5.5M
- Seed—
#11
Seed · Eindhoven, North Brabant · founded 2015 · 9 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Provider of cloud & fingerprint-based authentication systems. It offers passwordless authentication, e-signing of documents, & protection of personal assets. Its core solution is a secure touch screen stylus allowing owners to assert their electronic identity on mobile devices. It converts the handwritten signature into a secure cryptographic digital signature. Key features include eIDAS, GDPR compliant; biometric signatures. It has an SDK which developers can integrate into their third-party applications.
- Dec 2020Seed$1.3M
#12
Acquired · Groningen, Groningen · founded 2015 · 98 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Klippa provides cloud-based solution for expense management. Features include storing of digitalized receipt, expense statistics, sharing of vouchers, and converting coupons into PDF. The company mainly targets small entrepreneurs.
- Apr 2020Seed$1.3M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Image Recognition coverage by sub-theme.
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Funding & growth over time
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How research on Computer Vision is moving in the Netherlands
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 488 Netherlands-affiliated papers.
- University of Amsterdam150
- Delft University of Technology39
- Eindhoven University of Technology28
- Radboud University Nijmegen27
- University of Twente26
- Segmentation2→19
- Convolutional neural network6→21
- Pattern recognition (psychology)4→19
- Robustness (evolution)1→15
- Medical imaging1→7
- Pattern recognition (psychology)4→17
- Convolutional neural network1→6
- Pattern recognition (psychology)7
- Segmentation5
- Feature (linguistics)5
- Motion (physics)4
- Image segmentation3
Where computer vision is researched across Netherlands
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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