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Cortexica are leaders in AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision for image and video analysis. Focused on creating and turning cutting-edge AI and machine learning research into real world solutions that make businesses commercially stronger.
Starting life from the Bio-engineering Department at Imperial College London, Cortexica originated from a research project to reverse-engineer the human visual cortex, and now has its own team of PhD researchers and engineers that form the back bone of its video centre of excellence.
We are proud to be independent whilst proactively partnering with Cisco, Accenture, Axis, AAEON, Intel, as well as global leading academic institutions.
Starting life from the Bio-engineering Department at Imperial College London, Cortexica originated from a research project to reverse-engineer the human visual cortex, and now has its own team of PhD researchers and engineers that form the back bone of its video centre of excellence.
We are proud to be independent whilst proactively partnering with Cisco, Accenture, Axis, AAEON, Intel, as well as global leading academic institutions.
Overview
Location
United Kingdom, England, London
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$8.5M
Founded date
2008
Funding Rounds 3
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| Mar 18, 2015 | Funding round | $3.45M | |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Funding round | $2.55M |
Mentions in press and media 11
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| Dec 5, 2017 | 16 Artificial Intelligence Startups in the UK Raising Some Serious Capital | With the boom of artificial intelligence companies in the UK, it seems that a new company launches every week in the UK. In a government report, they called for a UK strategy to advance AI. The subsequent budget included a £270m investment ... |
| Apr 5, 2017 | Ten startups in the finals of W. A. de Vigier Award | |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Cortexica Raises £2M in Funding | Cortexica, a London, UK- and San Francisco, CA-based provider of a visual search engine for retailer, raised £2m in funding. Touchstone Innovations made the investment. The company, which has raised £4 in total in the year, will use the fun... |
| Apr 3, 2017 | Term Sheet — Monday, April 3 | BIG DEAL Hello. Just about every beat at Fortune is enjoying some deal-making action at the moment, so this morning’s Term Sheet is a team effort… Paid Content Securing the enterprise without boundaries From ExtraHop • Why hasn’t VF landed ... |
| Feb 22, 2017 | Sixteen startups shortlisted for the W. A. de Vigier Award | |
| Mar 18, 2015 | Cortexica Visual Systems Raises $3.45M in Funding | Cortexica Visual Systems Ltd, a London, UK-based visual search business, raised USD$3.45m in funding. Imperial Innovations Group Plc made the investment. The company intends to use the funds to complete the development of new products, due ... |
| Jun 16, 2014 | Cortexica Visual Systems Receives £1.5M from Imperial Innovations | Cortexica Visual Systems Ltd., a London, UK-based visual search company, received a £1.5m investment from Imperial Innovations (AIM: IVO). Imperial Innovations, which first invested in Cortexica in 2009, will hold on conversion of loan stoc... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Cortexica sees its way to a new CEO, while ARM veteran joins as Chairman | Visual search and image recognition startup Cortexica Vision Systems has appointed Iain McCready as new CEO today, while ARM-veteran Malcolm Bird has joined as its non-exec Chairman. Bird was previously Technical Director with Acorn Compute... |
| Jun 8, 2011 | To see how we see – Cortexica Vision Systems releases its VisualSearch API | This really is the stuff of Sci-Fi movies: Build a computer program that can see as the human eye does. Based on the principles of the human visual cortex, Cortexica Vision Systems claims to have done just that. The London startup, which wa... |
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