Polar Rose develops facial recognition tech - gets $5 m funding

By Vivek | November 14th, 2006 at 10:40 pm ET         

Sweden based Polar Rose, developer of automatic facial recognition with 3D modeling for visual search applications, today announced it has closed Series A round of funding. Polar Rose raised total of $5.1 million from Nordic Venture Partners (Copenhagen). Nordic ventures had recently funded ZYB about which I had written here.

“Bloom(TM) is a disruptive technology in the best sense of the word — we believe Bloom(TM) enables a revolution in how people sort and find photos of friends, celebrities or family,” said Nikolaj Nyholm, CEO of Polar Rose.

Polar Rose was founded with unique expertise in automatic 3D modeling and pattern recognition pioneered by the company’s founder and CTO, Dr. Jan Erik Solem.

Currently Polar Rose is in closed beta and will be officially launching its face matching product, called Bloom, later this year that will sort and add context to the Web of photos.

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