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Best Image Recognition Companies in Texas, United States

The 58 best Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: SEON.

58companies tracked
$305Mdisclosed funding
0unicorns
27have raised

Ranked: Best Image Recognition companies in Texas

#CompanyDisclosed fundingLast roundEmployeesFounderTech stackStagePatents & IP focusRecent signals
1SEON
Provider of fraud prevention and AML compliance solutions and related services
64Growth top 21%Tech top 22%Funding top 30%Moat top 31%
All 12 signals ▾
Growthtop 21%
Techtop 22%
Fundingtop 30%
Moattop 31%
AItop 35%
Newstop 36%
Producttop 36%
Globaltop 48%
Talentbottom 48%
Innovationbottom 46%
Fin. healthbottom 43%
Marketbottom 40%
Growth: Revenue +224% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100
$107M9 mo ago20Bence Jendruszak
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
WordPress Block EditorWordPressApple iCloud Mail+29Series C—1 launch
2CSID
Fraud detection & identity protection solutions provider
$45M183 mo ago160Joe Ross
Co-Founder & President
—Acquired——
3Pensa Systems
Provider of drone-based autonomous perception systems for inventory visibility
$42M30 mo ago26Pinar Kaprali
Co-Founder & Head of Product
—Series B—1 launch · 1 partnership · 2 awards
4KERV
AI-based performance analytics solutions for e-commerce brands
69Growth top 23%Funding top 35%Tech top 43%AI top 45%
All 10 signals ▾
Growthtop 23%
Fundingtop 35%
Techtop 43%
AItop 45%
Partnerstop 45%
Markettop 48%
Moattop 48%
Talentbottom 49%
Globalbottom 37%
Newsbottom 18%
Growth: Headcount 69 → 109 (+58%) across vintages · Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY
Funding: Raised $30.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr)
rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100
$30M8 mo ago109Gary Mittman
CEO
WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+40Series B——
5AllClear ID
Provider of a platform consolidating and sharing patient medical records securely
$28M106 mo ago14—WordPressMySQLPHP+20Series B8 patents
Secure mobile payment and authentication systems enabling cross-channel transactions.
—
6Waldo
Photo delivery platform based on facial recognition
$9M91 mo ago24Rodney Rice
Founder & CEO
WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+33Seed—1 launch
7Top Image Systems
Process automation solutions
$9M115 mo ago185Brendan Reidy
CEO
—Acquired——
8Siera AI
Provider of a cloud-based AI platform and autonomous robots for warehouse automation
$7M68 mo ago9Saurav Kumar Agarwal
Founder
WordPressMySQLPHP+9Seed—2 launchs
9Wink
Provider of a platform offering biometric-based checkout solutions
$6M41 mo ago20Deepak Jain
Founder & CEO
PHPAnimate.cssBootstrap+20Seed30 patents
User-feedback-driven relevance ranking and tag-based document retrieval for search engines
—
10Sherlock
Smart contract auditing platform
$6M45 mo ago9Jack Sanford
Co-Founder
WebflowThree.jsGSAP+18Seed5 patents
Remote health monitoring systems that detect critical parameter changes and trigger emergency interventions
2 launchs
11Biometric Signature ID
Provider of MFA and biometric ID verification solutions
$6M154 mo ago10
10 → 14 (+40%)
Jeff Maynard
Founder & CEO | Company Formation
Wix eCommerceWixSentry+21Seed——
12Zenus
Developer of facial analysis solutions for retail and event industries
$4M23 mo ago10Panos Moutafis
Co-Founder & CEO
WixSentryBootstrap+16Seed——
13FunnelAI
SaaS-based social media monitoring solutions for lead generation
$2M87 mo ago8Sridhar Kamma
Co-Founder & CEO
—Acquired2 patents
AI-driven personalized advertising and life-event-based communication generation
—
14Blink Identity
Provides facial recognition solutions
$2M96 mo ago5Alex Kilpatrick
Co-Founder & CTO
—Seed——
15CheckpointID
Provider of identity verification solution
$2M89 mo ago25—WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+16Acquired——
16TradeHarbor
Voice signature based identity protection service
$1M200 mo ago6Paul Heirendt
Co-Founder
—Deadpooled——
17Pomika
Provider of a visual search tool that turns a social media feed into a personal online store
$415K125 mo ago—David G Ortega
Co-Founder & CTO
—Seed——
18DRN
Provider of license plate recognition (LPR) data and analytics solutions
$400K196 mo ago53—WordPressMySQLPHP+15Seed—2 launchs
19TurboPass
Income & identity validation for lenders & auto dealers
$135K81 mo ago26—PHPLaravelLivewire+22Seed3 patents
Secure consumer‑authorized distribution platforms for trusted data (data security and privacy)
3 job openings
20Revealix
Developer of thermal and risk screening technology for foot health assessment
$120K82 mo ago4Adrianna Cantu
Co-Founder & CEO
—Seed3 patents
Non‑invasive skin diagnostic imaging for early detection of pathogenic bio‑signal anomalies
—
21Locus Insights
Eye tracking software to track user experience on mobile advertisements
$120K96 mo ago6Tom Jackson
Co-Founder & CEO
—Seed——

Top 12 Image Recognition companies in Texas

#1
Series C · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 20 employees
$106.6Mraised
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Provider of fraud prevention and AML compliance solutions and related services. They offer digital footprint analysis, device intelligence, and AI-driven machine learning to detect and prevent fraudulent activities. The company provides customer screening, payment screening, transaction monitoring, and case management tools. It supports industries including financial services, fintech, payments, and retail. The company also offers managed risk services, integration guides, and API documentation.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 64how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 21%
Tech
top 22%
Funding
top 30%
Moat
top 31%
AI
top 35%
News
top 36%
Growth: Revenue +224% YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 · Devops: Nginx
Funding: Raised $107M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 8 yrs (0.5/yr) · Last round Series C (Sep 2025)
Audience (LinkedIn): 47k LinkedIn followers — 32.4% of this cohort's audience
Activity (LinkedIn): 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2025Series C$80M
  • Apr 2022Series B$94M
  • Mar 2021Series A$12M
  • Feb 2018Seed$624K
Founders & team
Bence JendruszakCo-Founder & Chief Operating OfficerTamas KadarCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
Portfolion, Fiedler Capital, Creandum, IVP, Sixth Street, Firebolt Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon CloudfrontAmazon S3Amazon SesAmazon Web ServicesApple Icloud MailAws Certificate Manager
#2
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 109 employees
$30Mraised
▾

AI-based performance analytics solutions for e-commerce brands. Its solutions include add performance solutions, publisher revenue opportunities, and in-show monitization solutions.

Fliar Intelligence Index™ 69how this company ranks against its industry peers
Growth
top 23%
Funding
top 35%
Tech
top 43%
AI
top 45%
Partners
top 45%
Market
top 48%
Growth: Headcount 69 → 109 (+58%) across vintages · Web rank 10,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo
Funding: Raised $30.0M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 4 yrs (1.2/yr) · Last round Series B (Nov 2025)
Tech: 45 technologies across 3/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare · Security: Cloudflare Bot Management, Hsts
Funding rounds
  • Nov 2025Series B$17.5M
  • Sep 2022Series B$6.6M
  • May 2022Series A$4.5M
  • May 2022Conventional Debt$7.5M
Founders & team
Gary MittmanCEO
Investors
Vestech Partners, Plaza Ventures, Trinity Capital, Coral Tree Partners
Tech stack
Apple Icloud MailBootstrapBootstrap IconsCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementContact Form 7
#3
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2011 · 26 employees
$41.7Mraised
▾

Provider of drone-based autonomous perception systems for inventory visibility. The system comprises an indoor drone that leverages computer vision to scan dry shelves and coolers for looking at out-of-stock items. It collects data and processes by a companion web-based dashboard for actionable data such as comparisons between shelf performance of a major brand against a competitor, stockouts, share of shelf, and other shelf conditions impacting revenue.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 4.1% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches · 1 partnerships · 2 awards (incl. Datalogic) announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2023Series B$13.5M
  • Jun 2021Series A$11M
  • Nov 2019Seed$10M
  • Jan 2019Seed$5M
Founders & team
Pinar KapraliCo-Founder & Head of ProductJason ReneauCo-FounderRichard SchwartzPresident and CEO
Investors
Signia Venture Partners, ZX Ventures, Capital Factory, Commerce Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, RevTech Ventures
Tech stack
WordpressMysqlPhpWpbakeryProfilepressContact Form 7
#4
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2015 · 10 employees
$4.4Mraised
▾

Developer of facial analysis solutions for retail and event industries. It provides tools to analyze consumer demographics and sentiment. The platform offers real-time data through a live dashboard and API integration. It helps to understand consumer reactions and optimize engagement at events. The solutions include attendee tracking, lead capture, and dynamic displays for exhibitors.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 3.3% of this cohort's audience
Funding rounds
  • Jul 2024Seed—
  • Oct 2022Seed$3.2M
  • Sep 2020Seed$1.2M
Founders & team
Panos MoutafisCo-Founder & CEO
Investors
L-Stone Capital, Moneta Ventures, Rice University, Frontera Technology Ventures, Capital Factory, Emerging Ventures
Tech stack
Amazon S3Amazon Web ServicesBootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle Workspace
#5
Seed · Plano, Texas · founded 2019 · 20 employees
$5.8Mraised
▾

Provider of a platform offering biometric-based checkout solutions. It provides users with omnichannel checkout solutions by face- and voice-recognition payments acceptance platform. It also enables three-factor biometric authentication that combines facial recognition, digital voice printing, and payment technologies which also prevents compliance and fraud prevention.

Funding rounds
  • Feb 2023Seed$3M
  • Dec 2022Seed$2.5M
  • May 2022Seed$2.9M
  • Jan 2022Conventional Debt$1.8M
Founders & team
Deepak JainFounder & CEO
Investors
CerraCap Ventures, Carneros Bay, Tntra, Flying Point Industries, Plug and Play Tech Center
Tech stack
Cart FunctionalityCdnjsCloudflareGodaddyGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Font Api
#6
Acquired · Austin, Texas · founded 2006 · 160 employees
$45.4Mraised
▾

CSID is a fraud detection & identity protection solutions provider. It provides identity protection and fraud detection solution for enterprise including its employees and consumers. The features of the product include credit monitoring, identity monitoring, identity authentication, voice biometrics services, insurance, breach mitigation, etc.

Funding rounds
  • Mar 2011Conventional Debt—
  • Mar 2011Series B$6M
  • Jan 2010Series B$35M
  • 2009Series A—
Founders & team
Joe RossCo-Founder & President
Investors
New Amsterdam Growth Capital, Investcorp, Houston Angel Network, Daylight Partners
Tech stack
Adobe Experience ManagerJavaAmazon Web ServicesApache Http ServerRecaptchaImperva
#7
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2021 · 9 employees
$5.5Mraised
▾

Smart contract auditing platform. The company offers protocols to create smart contracts. It allows users to design their own audit in Web3.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 6k LinkedIn followers — 3.8% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Sep 2022Seed$4M
  • Jun 2021Seed$1.5M
Founders & team
Jack SanfordCo-Founder
Investors
A.Capital Ventures, Ideocolab, Scalar Capital, DeFi Alliance, Spartan Group, Lattice
Tech stack
CloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementDigitalocean SpacesEthersGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Workspace
#8
Series B · Austin, Texas · founded 2004 · 14 employees
$27.8Mraised
▾

Provider of a platform consolidating and sharing patient medical records securely. The platform facilitates access to consolidated medical records and insights derived from medical AI. It enables patients to consolidate records from various providers into a secure account. Healthcare organizations can gain access to patient-consented data, including medical summaries and verified patient information.

Funding rounds
  • Sep 2017Series B$12M
  • Sep 2017Series B$6.5M
  • Apr 2008Series A$9.3M
Investors
Merus Capital, Trellis Partners, Runway Growth Capital, Alliance Venture, Grail Partners, GlidePath Partners
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesAngularjsAutoptimizeBabelBootstrapCloudflare
#9
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2017 · 9 employees
$6.9Mraised
▾

Siera is a cloud-based AI platform and autonomous robots for warehouse automation. The features and services of the platform are infrastructure-free navigation, WMS/ERP integration, proactive safety, fleet management, self-driving, analytics, asset management, and more.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 5k LinkedIn followers — 3.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 2 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Oct 2020Seed$6.9M
  • Feb 2019Seed—
Founders & team
Saurav Kumar AgarwalFounder
Investors
Texas Halo Fund, Parkway VC, Ubiquity Ventures, North Texas Angel Network, Houston Angel Network
Tech stack
Google WorkspaceHstsHttp/3HubspotLitespeedMysql
#10
Seed · Austin, Texas · founded 2015 · 24 employees
$9Mraised
▾

Photo delivery platform based on facial recognition. Provides mobile photo delivery for various events including summer camps, schools, youth sports organizations, resorts, and pro photographers. Users can upload, store the photos on the cloud, share code with others, and get the text alerts of the person included in the photos based on AI technology. The mobile app is available for Android and iOS devices.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 8k LinkedIn followers — 5.7% of this cohort's audience
Activity: 1 product launches announced in 12 mo
Funding rounds
  • Dec 2018Seed$4M
  • Jan 2016Seed$5M
Founders & team
Rodney RiceFounder & CEO
Investors
Lewis & Clark Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Capital Factory, Geekdom Fund
Tech stack
Amazon Web ServicesCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementCookieyesCore-JsFacebook Pixel
#11
Acquired · Plano, Texas · founded 1991 · 185 employees
$8.9Mraised
▾

TIS solutions capture and organize all business content that enters the organization, making it understandable and actionable. Solutions provided are broadly classified as Content Process Automation, Banking Process Automation, and Financial Process Automation. Financial Automation has Accounts Payable Automation solutions as well as Order to Cash automation solutions.

Funding rounds
  • Dec 2016Post IPO$8.9M
  • Dec 2010Post IPO$14K
Founders & team
Brendan ReidyCEO
Investors
HCP, Herald Investment Management, Charterhouse Strategic Partners, Trident Capital
#12
Seed · Lewisville, Texas · founded 2005 · 10 employees
$5.5Mraised
▾

Provider of MFA and biometric ID verification solutions. It offers a biometric ID verification solution using multi-factor authentication. Its products include BioSig-ID a device-agnostic solution in which users create a unique biometric password using a finger or mouse that imposters cannot replicate.

LinkedIn Pulse recent public activity · Jul 2026
Audience: 757 LinkedIn followers
Funding rounds
  • Aug 2013Seed$5M
  • Mar 2012Seed$500K
Founders & team
Jeff MaynardFounder & CEO | Company Formation
Investors
North Texas RCIC
Tech stack
BootstrapCloudflareCloudflare Bot ManagementGoogle CloudGoogle Cloud CdnGsap

Funding & investor landscape

$305Mtotal disclosed funding
23companies funded
52disclosed rounds
0rounds last 90 days
Most active investors
Capital Factory6 rounds
Techstars5 rounds
ATX Venture Partners2 rounds
Fiedler Capital2 rounds
Geekdom Fund2 rounds
Houston Angel Network2 rounds
9Yards1 rounds
A.Capital Ventures1 rounds
AME Ventures1 rounds
Active Capital1 rounds

Notable founders

Bence Jendruszak
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer · SEON
Tamas Kadar
Co-Founder & CEO · SEON
Gary Mittman
CEO · KERV
Pinar Kaprali
Co-Founder & Head of Product · Pensa Systems
Jason Reneau
Co-Founder · Pensa Systems
Panos Moutafis
Co-Founder & CEO · Zenus
Deepak Jain
Founder & CEO · Wink
Joe Ross
Co-Founder & President · CSID
Jack Sanford
Co-Founder · Sherlock
Saurav Kumar Agarwal
Founder · Siera AI
Rodney Rice
Founder & CEO · Waldo
Brendan Reidy
CEO · Top Image Systems
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 TEXAS · AI & Compute

How research on Computer Vision in Texas is moving

A read on the academic research around Computer Vision in Texas — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 232 papers.

UT Austin and Texas A&M lead Texas's optimistic computer-vision research, predominantly advancing neural network applications and image enhancement, with breakthroughs dominating and concerns remaining minimal.

232 papers · stance +0.68 · 68% breakthrough · 7% concern
breakthrough · advancement · concern
top institutions
  • The University of Texas at Austin73
  • Texas A&M University38
  • The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center17
  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center17
  • The University of Texas at Dallas12
leading researchers
Alan C. Bovik · Kristen Grauman · Philipp Krähenbühl · Xingyi Zhou · Yangkang Chen · Anush K. Moorthy
prism intelligence · tone & topics
98% positive · 1% critical tone
Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningComputer ScienceHealthcareBiotechnologySoftware
▲ Breakthroughs146 · 63%
▼ 69%→61% share
▼0.9× share momentum0 median citations77% since 2021mostly methods-led
Segmentation research is surging — papers quadrupled (3->12) as convolutional neural network work jumped from 4 to 18.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network4→18
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)9→22
  • Artificial neural network1→10
  • Segmentation3→12
  • Inference1→7
Newly emergingFeature (linguistics) 0→11 · Robustness (evolution) 0→8 · Set (abstract data type) 0→8
Landmark Making a “Completely Blind” Image Quality Analyzer · 6,134 cites
◆ Advancements53 · 23%
▲ 17%→24% share
▲1.4× share momentum0 median citations83% since 2021mostly methods-led
Advancements field-share grew 17%->24%, with segmentation newly emerging at 7 papers and CNN work rising 2->12.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Convolutional neural network2→12
  • Pattern recognition (psychology)3→6
  • Artificial neural network1→3
Newly emergingSegmentation 0→7 · Visualization 0→4 · Radar 0→3
Landmark Generalizing motion edits with Gaussian processes · 1,215 cites
▼ Concerns16 · 7%
▼ 9%→6% share
▼0.7× share momentum0 median citations69% since 2021mostly empirical
Concerns segment is shrinking (9%->6%), with identification, image registration, and landmark each stalling at only 2 papers.
rising sub-themes (early→recent)
  • Identification (biology)2
  • Image registration2
  • Landmark2
  • Motion (physics)2
  • Structural equation modeling1
Landmark Person Transfer GAN to Bridge Domain Gap for Person Re-identification · 1,959 cites

Common questions

How many Image Recognition companies are there in Texas, United States?
Radar tracks 58 indexable Image Recognition companies headquartered in Texas, United States that meet our profile-completeness bar.
What is the total funding raised by Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States?
The Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States on this list have raised a combined $305M in disclosed equity funding across 23 funded companies.
Which is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Texas, United States?
SEON is the highest-funded Image Recognition company in Texas, United States, with $106.6M in disclosed equity funding.
How many Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States are funded?
23 of the 58 Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States on this list have disclosed at least one equity funding round.
How many Image Recognition unicorns are there in Texas, United States?
None of the Image Recognition companies in Texas, United States on this list currently has a disclosed valuation of $1B or more.
Who are the top investors in Texas, United States Image Recognition companies?
The most active investors in Texas, United States Image Recognition companies on this list include Capital Factory, Techstars, ATX Venture Partners, Fiedler Capital, Geekdom Fund.
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