50 Best Facial Recognition Companies to Watch in 2026

The most prominent facial recognition companies ranked by global prominence, funding activity, and market position. Showing the top 50 out of 169 companies tracked on Fsome.

169
Total Companies
$4.7B
Total Funding
$27.8M
Avg Funding
Austin
Top Location
# Company Location Employees Total Funding Last Round Last Funded
1
HUMAIN
HUMAIN is a global artificial intelligence company delivering full-stack AI capa…
Riyadh 501 - 1K $1.2B Debt Financing 2026-01-21
2
Loti
Loti uses AI technologies to identify unauthorized uses of individuals' likeness…
Seattle 11 - 50 $22.9M Series A 2025-04-15
3
CLEAR
CLEAR is an identity company that uses biometrics to build a connected world tha…
New York 1K - 5K $135.0M Private Equity 2021-02-08
4
Alcatraz AI
Alcatraz is an AI company that leverages the enterprise access control environme…
Cupertino 51 - 100 $94.9M Series B 2026-04-01
5
Jumio
Jumio is an AI platform that enables users to establish their identity remotely …
Sunnyvale 1K - 5K $205.4M Private Equity 2021-03-23
6
D-ID
D-ID is a generative AI company that creates avatars for real-time interactions …
Tel Aviv 101 - 250 $47.9M Series B 2022-03-22
7
Paravision
Paravision is globally deployed AI software that is ethically developed, conscie…
San Francisco 11 - 50 $52.0M Series Unknown 2021-05-12
8
PopID
PopID is a technology company that provides biometric authentication solutions f…
Los Angeles 11 - 50 $15.0M Series Unknown 2025-12-03
9
Kairos AR
Kairos is an artificial intelligence company specializing in face recognition.
Miami 11 - 50 $11.0M Series Unknown 2019-02-19
10
Velents
AI-powered SaaS platform that automates the hiring process to mitigate the bias …
Riyadh 11 - 50 $1.5M Seed 2025-10-27
11
Eden AI
A unique API connected to the best AI engines and combined with a powerful manag…
Lyon 11 - 50 $4.7M Seed 2024-11-21
12
MEGVII
Megvii builds AI Engine, a core fundamental technology powering various AI appli…
Beijing 1K - 5K $1.4B Series Unknown 2025-04-07
13
Newera.ai
Generative AI, Agentic AI, SaaS
Riyadh 1 - 10 $2.1M Pre Seed 2025-09-01
14
Chooch
Teaching computers what to see.
San Mateo 51 - 100 $25.9M Grant 2022-05-09
15
Stardust AI
Comprehensive data annotation services, auto-annotation platform, AI data manage…
Palo Alto 51 - 100 $7.0M Series A 2022-12-29
16
Zenus
We develop award-winning facial recognition software.
Austin 1 - 10 $3.8M Series Unknown 2024-07-24
17
Intellifusion
Intellifusion develops a vision processor for purposes such as public safety, su…
Shenzhen 501 - 1K $172.6M Series C 2020-04-03
18
Instill AI
The backbone for all your AI needs
London 11 - 50 $4.2M Seed 2023-02-01
19
Blink Identity
Privacy preserving face recognition technology for personalized customer experie…
Austin 1 - 10 $1.6M Seed 2018-07-09
20
CloudWalk Technology
CloudWalk Technology is an AI platform that provides facial recognition services…
Beijing 1K - 5K $804.7M Series C 2020-05-14
21
All eyes on screens
All eyes on screens made its mission to empower data-driven TV advertising to in…
Zagreb 51 - 100 $21.0M Series B 2024-10-02
22
WISE AI
WISE AI specialised in digital identity, eKYC and facial recognition techologies…
Petaling Jaya 11 - 50 $10.0M Series A 2024-07-17
23
Iristar
Iristar specializes in the field of artificial intelligence that provides long-d…
Tianjin 11 - 50 $3.4M Series A 2020-01-08
24
3DiVi
3DiVi is an AI technology company that develops software for Image API, papillon…
Walnut 11 - 50 $4.6M Series Unknown 2021-09-08
25
Payface
Is the global leading company for payments with facial recognition.
Florian├│polis 51 - 100 $9.6M Series Unknown 2023-01-01
26
Facenote
We are building the decentralized face recognition experience of the future, tod…
Middletown 1 - 10 $965K Pre Seed 2021-03-30
27
NTechLab
NTechLab develops software products using techniques in the fields of artificial…
Moscow 101 - 250 $17.6M Grant 2021-01-12
28
Trueface
Trueface applies computer vision technology to camera streams to enable business…
Santa Monica 11 - 50 $5.0M Series A 2019-07-31
29
FaceFirst
FaceFirst is a platform that uses face recognition technology to prevent fraud, …
Austin 11 - 50 $27.6M Series Unknown 2024-03-20
30
Strong Room AI
Strong Room is a medical R&D start-up that specializes in AI facial recognition …
Malvern East 11 - 50 $17.0M Series Unknown 2025-03-13
31
Clearview
Clearview is a research tool used by law enforcement agencies to identify perpet…
New York 11 - 50 $38.6M Series C 2022-03-01
32
Facia
FACIA, pioneers biometric authentication & facial recognition, reshaping identit…
London 11 - 50 $1.1M Seed 2023-07-19
33
MoodMe
MoodMe provides unique insights and experiences for the emotion economy with unb…
Luxembourg 11 - 50 $2.8M Grant 2024-09-01
34
ARAYA
ARAYA is an AI services provider that utilizes machine learning algorithms inclu…
Tokyo 51 - 100 $9.5M Series B 2022-03-31
35
BioConnect
BioConnect provides an enterprise-grade biometric authentication platform that u…
Toronto 51 - 100 $3.9M Grant 2019-09-09
36
iiDENTIFii
iiDENTIFii is an automated platform that provides a remote digital biometric ide…
Cape Town 11 - 50 $15.0M Series A 2022-09-28
37
SWiP
SWiP - increases occasional visitors’ buying activity and bring back lost custom…
Nicosia 11 - 50 $3.6M Seed 2022-05-11
38
RaySea
RaySea designs and manufactures vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers.
Yuhang 11 - 50 $43.8M Undisclosed 2024-06-24
39
DeepSense
DeepSense is a deep learning algorithms developer company for images and videos.
Haidian 11 - 50 $2.0M Series A 2018-04-25
40
Oveit
Oveit is a fintech company that offers closed loop payments, distributed on publ…
Austin 1 - 10 $828K Seed 2021-01-18
41
Valossa
Valossa provides video recognition and content intelligence software platform fo…
Oulu 11 - 50 $2.6M Seed 2017-09-06
42
KanduAI
KanduAI specializes in the development of machine learning inference engine for …
Tel Aviv 1 - 10 $3.5M Seed 2018-05-01
43
SPOTVISION
We provides video analytics as a service to convert videos in capitalizable data…
Santiago 11 - 50 $3.1M Seed 2024-01-15
44
eConnect
eConnect has generated more than $50m in revenue from its powerful SaaS platform…
Las Vegas 11 - 50 $2.0M Debt Financing 2020-11-30
45
Corsight AI
Corsight AI is dedicated to creating industry-leading facial recognition technol…
Tel Aviv 51 - 100 $5.0M Seed 2020-04-26
46
Waldo Photos
Waldo Photos is a mobile first photo sharing platform leveraging facial and jers…
Austin 11 - 50 $9.0M Seed 2018-12-11
47
Invision AI
Invision AI software enables mainstream processors to run accurate real-time obj…
Toronto 11 - 50 $1.2M Seed 2018-08-31
48
FacePhi
FacePhi is the spanish company in biometric solutions for identity verification.
Alicante 251 - 500 $56.6M Post Ipo Equity 2024-03-25
49
Memento
Memento is an AI & facial recognition based platform.
Paris 11 - 50 $584K Seed 2018-07-11
50
Facebox
Facebox develops face recognition technology and authentication equipment.
Shijiazhuang 11 - 50 $13.6M Series B 2023-02-20