Privacy International (PI) and several other European privacy and digital rights organisations filed legal complaints against the controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI. AnyVision, an Israeli competitor, raised $235 million this month in a financing round led by SoftBank.Īlthough earlier this year Clearview was named to TIME’s inaugural list of The 100 Most Influential Companies, the company is currently under investigation for possible privacy violations in the UK and Australia, and also is the subject of several class-action lawsuits. It is not the only facial recognition start-up to catch investors’ attention. Prior investors include Peter Thiel and Naval Ravikant.
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In December 2019, Clearview secured $7 million in Series A funding from investment trusts, funds, and individual investors. Hoan Ton-That, the company’s chief executive, said they “include institutional investors and private family offices.” The investors, though undeterred by the lawsuits, did not want to be identified. “Law enforcement agencies continue to evolve and adopt new technology by necessity, and Clearview’s revolutionary image search and identification capabilities have proven to be a game-changer in bringing unidentified criminals to justice,” said Hoan Ton-That, Co-Founder and CEO of Clearview AI. The technology is used for after-the-crime investigations by law enforcement. These leads, when supported by other evidence, help law officials accurately and rapidly identify suspects, protect victims, and keep communities safe.Clearview AI, a facial recognition company that provides photo identification technology to law enforcement agencies, announced the successful close of a US$30 million Series B funding round that now values the company at $130 million.Ĭlearview’s proprietary image-search technology enables law enforcement to ‘accurately, reliably, and lawfully identify criminal suspects, as well as the victims upon whom they prey’, by matching a single, unidentified photograph with publicly available, open-sourced images from the Internet.
Law enforcement agencies that use Clearview AI receive high-quality leads with fewer resources expended. Its platform of 3+ billion facial images, the largest known database of its kind, is sourced from public-only web sources, including news media, mugshot websites, public social media, and many other open sources. Prior investors include Peter Thiel and Naval Ravikant.Įarlier this year, Clearview was named to TIME’s inaugural list of The 100 Most Influential Companies.Ĭlearview AI: Clearview provides law enforcement agencies with investigative tools through the use of its revolutionary facial recognition search engine. In December 2019, Clearview secured $7 million in Series A funding from investment trusts, funds and individual investors. “Law enforcement agencies continue to evolve and adopt new technology by necessity, and Clearview’s revolutionary image search and identification capabilities have proven to be a game-changer in bringing unidentified criminals to justice,” said Hoan Ton-That, Co-Founder and CEO of Clearview AI.Ĭlearview’s proprietary image-search technology enables law enforcement to accurately, reliably and lawfully identify criminal suspects, as well as the victims upon whom they prey, by matching within seconds a single, unidentified photograph with publicly available, open-sourced images from the Internet. The investment, which includes funds from institutional investors and family offices, will fuel Clearview’s continued growth. NEW YORK-( BUSINESS WIRE)- Clearview AI, the leading facial recognition company that provides powerful and reliable photo identification technology to law enforcement agencies, announced the successful close of a $30 million Series B funding round that now values the company at $130 million.
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