Top 12 Cognitive API startups

Nov 29, 2024 | By Siddhant Patel

Cognitive API is a cloud toolkit that can be used by third-party developers to easily create artificial intelligence and cognitive computing-based applications to generate business value.
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Country: China | Funding: $1.4B
Megvii develops Face++ Cognitive Services - a platform offering computer vision technologies that enable your applications to read and understand the world better. Face++ allows you to easily add leading, deep learning-based image analysis recognition technologies into your applications, with simple and powerful APIs and SDKs.
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Country: Canada | Funding: $934.9M
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
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Country: USA | Funding: $451M
SoundHound develops voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technologies. It provides Speech-to-Meaning engine and Deep Meaning Understanding technology that can be built in other services and devices. It also develops app for music recognition and voice assistant for search.
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Country: USA | Funding: $100M
Clarifai is an artificial intelligence company that excels in visual recognition, solving real-world problems for businesses.
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Country: UK | Funding: $70.2M
Speechmatics provides automatic speech recognition technologies that can be used anywhere, by anyone, in any language.
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Country: USA | Funding: $8M
CloudSight offers its computer vision API to developers who can utilize the same technology that is currently being used by Fortune 500 companies and major retailers.
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Country: USA | Funding: $5.2M
Sighthound develops smart surveillance software powered by Computer Vision, provides computer vision cloud API for developers and Vision SDK, accelerating third-party products with proprietary deeply-learned computer vision technology
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Country: USA | Funding: $5M
TrueFace.Ai is a platform of facial recognition APIs powered by deep learning. It provides on-premise & Cloud Solutions for Face Recognition & Identity Verification
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Country: Finland | Funding: $2.2M
Speechly’s solution is to combine natural language understanding and speech recognition in a “novel way” that enables developers to a create a highly reactive and seamlessly multimodal user experience that better guides the user when expressing complex intents.
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Country: Germany
Heuro Labs develops Enterprise Cognitive Intelligence available and accessible through its highly abstracted set of APIs, available for both private and public clouds.
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Country: France
NLP production-ready API based on spaCy and HuggingFace transformers, for NER, sentiment-analysis, classification, summarization, question answering, and POS tagging. You can either use the pre-trained models or your own spaCy models.
Editor: Siddhant Patel
Siddhant Patel is a senior editor for AI-Startups. He is based out of India and has previously worked at publications including Huffington Post and The Next Web. Siddhant has a special interest in artificial intelligence and has spent a decade covering the rapidly-evolving business and technology of the industry. Siddhant graduated from the Indian Institute of Science (Bengaluru). When he’s not writing, Siddhant is also a developer and has a deep historical knowledge of the computer industry for the past 50 years. You can contact Siddhant at sidpatel(at)ai-startups(dot)org