Top 10 Cognitive API startups

Updated: February 07, 2024

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: 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: Canada | Funding: $434.9M
Cohere offers an API to add language processing to any system.
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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: $8.8M
Dialogflow is a conversational user experience platform enabling natural language interactions for devices, applications and services. Developers can use Dialogflow services for speech recognition, natural language processing (intent recognition and context awareness), and conversation management to quickly and easily differentiate their business, increase customer satisfaction and improve business processes.
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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.