University of Amsterdam-founded Kepler Vision has secured capital from investors including UvA Ventures to commercialise body language recognition products.
Kepler Vision, a Netherlands-based body language recognition technology spinout of University of Amsterdam, received €1.7m ($2.1m) in seed funding today from investors including UvA Ventures, the university’s tech transfer and investment arm.
Kepler Vision’s chief executive, Harro Stokman, also backed the seed round together with three unnamed additional investors.
Spun out in 2018, Kepler Vision develops automated image recognition products that apply machine learning and computer vision to determine human body language from video footage and photographs.
The company’s product pipeline includes a safety mechanism intended to inform the operator to persons who have suffered a fall, in settings such as gyms and healthcare centres for the elderly.
Kepler Vision will use the capital to enhance its computer vision and machine learning technologies. The business was co-founded by a team previously involved with another University of Amsterdam image analysis software spinout, Euvision Technologies, bought by mobile chip manufacturer Qualcomm in 2014.
Kepler Vision has reached the finals of Microsoft Innovate.AI Global Startup, a $1m investment contest sponsored by technology and software group Microsoft’s corporate venturing unit, M12, and venture capital firm Notion Capital.
