Riya receives $15 mln funding

Category: Camphones | No Comments | Posted on January 20, 2006

Riya Photo Search, a Silicon Valley startup developing digital search technology for images, said it has received a $15 million in second round of funding from Bay Partners. The company received a $4 million initial funding in venture capital from LeapFrog and BlueRun Ventures.

Riya, which works on facial recognition technology, sorts and tags customer’s snapshot. The technology allows photos to be automatically tagged when it recognises whose photos they are. The service will be launched next month. This will help customers who want to sort their huge personal albums.

The customer first uploads his album to the Riya website which “recognises

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