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Best Image Recognition Companies in Singapore

The 42 best Image Recognition companies in Singapore in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Trax.

42companies tracked
$1.4Bdisclosed funding
2unicorns
9have raised
Sources & further reading
  • Image Recognition Market to Reach USD73.344 Billion by 2026

Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Singapore

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundStageFounderFoundedTech stackRecent signals
1Trax 🦄
Cloud-based data analytics solutions for retail shelf management
74Partners top 18%Market top 21%Funding top 26%Moat top 26%
All 14 signals ▾
Partnerstop 18%
Markettop 21%
Fundingtop 26%
Moattop 26%
Globaltop 28%
Techtop 29%
Customerstop 31%
Fin. healthtop 36%
Producttop 40%
Newstop 44%
AItop 45%
Talentbottom 49%
Innovationbottom 48%
Growthbottom 30%
Partners: 5 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 5 deals
Market: 899 employees (top 1% of High Tech) · Revenue ~$15.2M
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100
$1.0B33 mo agoSeries EGary Laben
CEO
2010WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+36—
2Advance 🦄
Provider of digital identity verification
$330M59 mo agoSeries DDong Shou
Co-Founder & Chairman
2016WordPressMySQLPHP+29—
3sphere.money
Blockchain-enabled payment encryption for businesses
$10M103 mo agoSeries A—2017——
4i-Sprint
Online platform offering cloud-based authentication solutions
$10M150 mo agoAcquiredDutch Ng
Co-Founder & CEO
2000WordPressMySQLPHP+24—
5Quilt AI
AI and human intelligence-based human insights platform
$9M81 mo agoSeries AAngad Chowdhry
Co-Founder
2018Webflowcore-jsjQuery+13—
6Tactilis
Biometric card for identity protection
$250K123 mo agoDeadpooledClark Scott Yardley
CEO & President
2014——
7SmartViz
Provider of machine learning, computer vision, data modeling, and artificial intelligence solutions
—30 mo agoSeedDushyant Verma
Co-Founder & CEO
2023——
8Leben Care
Provider of an AI-based diagnostics solution for eye specific conditions
—85 mo agoDeadpooled—2016——
9SQREEM
AI platform for enterprises to access consumer behavior data
—95 mo agoSeedIan Chapman-Banks
Co-Founder & CEO
2015——

Top 9 Image Recognition companies in Singapore

#1
Trax 🦄
Series E · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2010 · 899 employees
$1Braised
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Cloud-based data analytics solutions for retail shelf management. The platform offers signal based merchandising data and analytics solutions to manage product placement and inventory. It generates reports to manage performance and support the decision making process. It offers AI powered solutions to execute, measure, and manage retail strategies. Features include merchandising, in-store execution, shopper engagement, market measurement, analytics and shelf monitoring solutions, workforce management, inventory optimization, and more.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 74how this company ranks against its industry peers
Partners
top 18%
Market
top 21%
Funding
top 26%
Moat
top 26%
Global
top 28%
Tech
top 29%
Partners: 5 contract events in 12 mo · Named contractor/client in 5 deals · Marquee-customer mentions: top 13% of tracked companies
Market: 899 employees (top 1% of High Tech) · Revenue ~$15.2M · Top-500,000 web property
Funding: Raised $1.0B across 10 rounds · 10 rounds over 13 yrs (0.8/yr) · Last round Venture Debt (Nov 2023)
Audience (LinkedIn): 43k LinkedIn followers — 23.6% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2023Venture Debt$50M
  • Apr 2021Series E$640M
  • Jul 2019Series D$100M
  • Jun 2018Series D$125M
Founders & team
Gary LabenCEO
Investors
SoftBank Vision Fund, BlackRock, OMERS, Sony Innovation Fund, Hopu Investments, Warburg Pincus
Tech stack
Alpine.JsAmazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAxiosBugsnag
#2
Advance 🦄
Series D · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016 · 1500 employees
$330Mraised
▾

Provider of digital identity verification. It provides eKYC, data solutions to easily configurable end to end workflows. It provides digital transformation, fraud prevention, and process automation solutions for enterprise clients. Its products include ID document recognition for document verification, ID Card masking for identity management, and more. It provides solutions for identity verification, video and facial based verification, cloud based deployment solutions, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 108k LinkedIn followers — 59.5% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 partnerships (incl. Asosiasi FinTech Indonesia) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2021Series D$200M
  • Sep 2019Series C$80M
  • Jul 2018Series B$50M
Founders & team
Dong ShouCo-Founder & ChairmanDennis MartinCEO
Investors
Warburg Pincus, SoftBank Vision Fund, Farallon Capital Management, Zhen Fund, Vision Capital, Northstar Group
Tech stack
Animate.CssBabelBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCloudflare Browser Insights
#3
Series A · Singapore · founded 2018 · 77 employees
$9Mraised
▾

Quilt.AI provides AI and human intelligence-based consumer insights platform. Offers an anthropology AI platform and a team of anthropologists, engineers and designers develop models and maps from multiple data sources and deliver decision making human insights and anthropology.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 10k LinkedIn followers — 5.5% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2019Series A$9M
Founders & team
Angad ChowdhryCo-FounderAnurag BanerjeeFounder and CEO
Investors
Nadathur, Target Accelerator Program, Spearhead Capital, Fortingail, Questxone
Tech stack
CdnjsCloudflareCookieyesCore-JsFacebook PixelGoogle Analytics
#4
Series A · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2017 · 3 employees
$10Mraised
▾

Blockchain-enabled payment encryption for businesses

Funding rounds
  • Jan 2018Series A$10M
#5
Acquired · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2000 · 99 employees
$9.8Mraised
▾

Online platform offering cloud-based authentication solutions. It provides digital identity product offerings that include authentication biometrics and multi-factor authentication, single sign-on services, end-to-end encryption, authentication and data protection for transaction data, and secure access to the web, mobile, and cloud-based applications. It also serves financial service institutions, government agencies, telecommunications, public utilities, manufacturing, healthcare, and education industries.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 3.5% of this cohort's audience · 37 engagements/post (1.8× cohort median)
Funding rounds
  • Feb 2014Series A$9.8M
Founders & team
Dutch NgCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Beijing Huasheng Tiancheng Technology, Automated Systems Holdings, Bull Capital Partners, iD TechVentures
Tech stack
Apache Http ServerAutoptimizeBootstrapGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font ApiGoogle Tag Manager
#6
Deadpooled · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2014
$250Kraised
▾

Biometric card for identity protection

Founders & team
Clark Scott YardleyCEO & PresidentDavid William Martin
Investors
Ong Kheng Ho, Amedeo D'Angelo, Min Lin Ng, Ong Kheng Chye, Alexander Chia Jhet Wern, Peng Wee Ing
#7
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2023
—raised
▾

Provider of machine learning, computer vision, data modeling, and artificial intelligence solutions. It deploys solutions in industries including automobiles, semiconductors, and oil and gas.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2024Seed—
Founders & team
Dushyant VermaCo-Founder & CEODaniel GardnerCo-Founder
Investors
Antler
#8
Deadpooled · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2016 · 4 employees
—raised
▾

Leben Care provides an AI-powered diagnostics solutions for eye-specific conditions. It provides an retinal image analysis solution that has the capability to analyze retina images, to detect and diagnose preventable blindness & other eye conditions. The company also provides an AI-based retinal screening solution, a tracking solution that enables doctors or patients to manage & view retinal changes over time, and an API for integration into existing systems for automating the grading process.

Funding rounds
  • Jul 2019Seed—
Investors
Inflection Point Ventures, Innova Sierra, iBS
#9
Seed · Singapore, Singapore · founded 2015 · 170 employees
—raised
▾

AI platform for enterprises to access consumer behavior data. It allows users to connect information from various sources and access data to understand the consumer behavior pattern. It collects data from various brands, products, services. The data includes consumer behaviographics, lifestyle patterns, purchase journeys, capital markets, travel patterns, and industrial activities. Additionally, it also provides analytics and insights for the businesses to capture actionable insights.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 3k LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2018Seed—
Founders & team
Ian Chapman-BanksCo-Founder & CEORene RaissCo-Founder & CTO
Investors
Plug and Play Tech Center, M3B Capital, Innoventure Partners, DTCC, SPLYCAP

Funding & investor landscape

$1.4Btotal disclosed funding
6companies funded
16disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Innoventure Partners2 rounds
M3B Capital2 rounds
SoftBank Vision Fund2 rounds
Warburg Pincus2 rounds
500 Durians1 rounds
AccelerAsia1 rounds
Advance Opportunities Fund Group1 rounds
Afinomaq1 rounds
Alexander Chia Jhet Wern1 rounds
Alto Partners1 rounds

Notable founders

Gary Laben
CEO · Trax
Dong Shou
Co-Founder & Chairman · Advance
Dennis Martin
CEO · Advance
Angad Chowdhry
Co-Founder · Quilt AI
Anurag Banerjee
Founder and CEO · Quilt AI
Dutch Ng
Co-Founder & CEO · i-Sprint
Clark Scott Yardley
CEO & President · Tactilis
David William Martin
· Tactilis
Dushyant Verma
Co-Founder & CEO · SmartViz
Daniel Gardner
Co-Founder · SmartViz
Ian Chapman-Banks
Co-Founder & CEO · SQREEM
Rene Raiss
Co-Founder & CTO · SQREEM
Prism market signals · Singapore · country-scoped Prism corpus, 33,734 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 SIGNALS · Singapore

How research on Computer Vision is moving in Singapore

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 511 Singapore-affiliated papers.

research sentiment over time
201520192026
enthusiastic · positive · guarded tone
Tone is overwhelmingly optimistic and softening — the enthusiastic (strongly-positive) share moved 88% → 80% across 2015–2026.
top research entities
  • Nanyang Technological University155
  • National University of Singapore153
  • Ministry of Education52
  • World Scientific32
  • University of Malaya23
leading researchers
Worldly Knowledge Publishing Centre · Jiashi Feng · Shuicheng Yan · Chen Change Loy · Qingshan Xu · Yuxuan Wang · Hanwang Zhang · Yunchao Wei
▲ Breakthroughs378 · 74%
▼ 76%→72% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations81% since 2021mostly methods-led
Breakthroughs are cooling (76%→72% of field), led by Robustness (evolution).
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Robustness (evolution)2→44
  • Segmentation4→43
  • Feature (linguistics)5→35
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)12→37
  • Convolutional neural network13→35
Newly emergingObject (grammar) 0→18 · Prior probability 0→13 · Key (lock) 0→13
Landmark Coordinate Attention for Efficient Mobile Network Design · 5,455 cites
◆ Advancements74 · 14%
▲ 12%→16% share
▲1.3× share momentum0 median citations89% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements are rising (12%→16% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network1→15
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)3→12
  • Segmentation1→7
  • Benchmark (surveying)1→4
  • Feature (linguistics)1→4
Newly emergingScalability 0→6 · Medical imaging 0→6
Landmark Filter Bank Common Spatial Pattern Algorithm on BCI Competition IV Datasets 2a and 2b · 1,201 cites
▼ Concerns17 · 3%
▲ 0%→3% share
0 median citations76% since 2021mostly reviews
Concerns are rising (0%→3% of field), led by Convolutional neural network.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network1→5
Landmark Deep Learning for Content-Based Image Retrieval · 818 cites
RESEARCH HOTSPOTS · Singapore

Where computer vision is researched across Singapore

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.

Singapore375 · +0.73
Hot · Convolutional neural networkAdvancing · SegmentationOpportunity · VisualizationConcern · Noise (video)

Common questions

How many Image Recognition companies are there in Singapore?
Radar tracks 42 indexable Image Recognition companies headquartered in Singapore that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Image Recognition companies in Singapore?
The Image Recognition companies in Singapore on this list have raised a combined $1.4B in disclosed equity funding across 6 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Singapore?
Trax is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Singapore, with $1B in disclosed equity funding.
How many Image Recognition companies in Singapore are funded?
6 of the 42 Image Recognition companies in Singapore on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Image Recognition unicorns are there in Singapore?
2 Image Recognition companies in Singapore on this list are valued at $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Singapore Image Recognition companies?
The most active investors in Singapore Image Recognition companies on this list include Innoventure Partners, M3B Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund, Warburg Pincus, 500 Durians.
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