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Riya.com

Product Name

Riya

Market Segment

Consumer service

Funding

Venture capital funded by Blue Run Ventures & Leapfrog Ventures.

Competitors

Google Images, Flickr, Ofoto, Shutterfly, Picasa, Yahoo Images

Product Description

Riya is the next generation of photo search. Riya.com is a group of face recognition and text recognition researchers and engineers who have created a technology to look inside and automatically tag photos. The company hopes this will revolutionize how people “see” the world.

Market Opportunity

Unknown

Demo Says

Riya has had a tough time staying below the radar, but you’ll have that when the rumor mill reports keen interest in a pre-launch start-up by some of the industry’s biggest firms. It’s well-deserved attention: Riya is applying amazing image detection technology to a convenient consumer photo service. It's the deep technology behind the consumer front end that garnered Riya.com an invitation to DEMO.