Facial Recognition Tech Startup Viewdle Raises $10 Million From Best Buy, Others
October 05, 2010 at 08:58 AM EDT
Facial recognition technology companies have been in the limelight lately, with Apple buying Polar Rose for a rumored $29 million and rival Face.com raising $4.3 million from Russian search juggernaut Yandex and others. A lesser-known but equally impressive startup in said field, Viewdle , announces today that it has secured $10 million in Series B funding from a group of noteworthy investors that includes Best Buy , BlackBerry Partners Fund and Qualcomm .