69 Best Photography Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Photography Startups

We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.

There are 146 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $44.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$105.0m

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DJI is a Shenzen, China-based company developing and manufacturing drone and camera technology.

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$60.2m

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U.S-based 3D media technology company providing worldwide end-to-end virtual media solutions.

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$482.0m

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A genetics testing company founded in 2013, based in San Francisco.

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$93.3m

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PhotoRoom is a French company that provides photo editing software via an AI-powered photo editor.

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$24.5m

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Street-level imagery platform that uses computer vision to fix the world's maps

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$582.7m

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Synthesia is an AI-powered video platform founded in 2017 by Victor Riparbelli, Lourdes Agapito, Matthias Niessner and Steffen Tjerrild.

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$30.0m

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BeReal is social media platform that prompts users to take one photo each day at a random time.

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$54.3m

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CreativeLive is a Seattle-based marketplace for online educational video's for creative entrepreneurs company.

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$359.5m

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A company that has designed a marketplace for transactions related to camping and outdoor activities. It was founded in 2013

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A company developing machine learning a AI technology for face swapping in videos.

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$1.2m

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Blokur is a UK-based music rights administration platform for music creators and publishers.

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$5.0m

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PhotoBox is a company founded in 2000.

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$2.6m

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Millions of images from photographers worldwide, available as downloads & prints. Fair pricing and fairly paid photographers. Upload, name your price, start selling downloads & prints instantly from your own customizable photography store, and from our marketplace, for free.

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Tangent is a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence and synthetic media company developing a platform to provide synthetic media content for marketing campaigns.

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$2.0m

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DroneAI is a company that focuses on drone navigation, founded by Nitya Singh.

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$16.0m

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Quantum Art is the first platform focused solely on photographers and their work, curating and dropping NFT collections and making NFT photography easily accessible for both artists and collectors

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$24.0m

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EyeEm builds technology to showcase the best images from the world's leading photo community.

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$753.4m

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Meero is an enhanced photography services powered by AI founded in 2016 by Lestrade Guillaume.

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$36.5m

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TRUEPIC is a photo and video verification platform that uses blockchain.

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$51.8m

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Moneybrain is a Seoul-based developer of artificial intelligence and synthetic media tools.

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$20.0m

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ArcSoft is a Fremont, California-based company founded in 1994.

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$40.0m

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VSCO is an Oakland, California-based company founded in 2011.

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$23.0m

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Polarr is a company which develops AI for photographic editing.

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$12.2m

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Rephrase is a Bangalore-based provider of synthetic media tools for creating video and an AI-powered visual dubbing tool.

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$1.5m

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Rosebud AI technology company offering a mobile application that enables users to apply in their selfies makeup styles from celebrities and influencers and share them on social media.

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$4.1m

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Red Tricycle is a company founded by Jacqui Boland, Craig Zingerline and Dan Zaner.

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$18.8m

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Imeem is a social media web site founded in 2004 by Dalton Caldwell, Jan Jannink and Dalton Caldwell.

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$1.8m

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Kisend provides an application for web and mobile solution for printing, receiving and sending photographs.

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$7.0m

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Lalaland is a Dutch company based in Amsterdam that uses machine learning and neural networks to create AI-generated human models for e-commerce webshops.

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Greentoe is a company providing an e-commerce marketplace wherein consumers make an offer for products and the site connects them to the retailers willing to accept the offer.

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$10.5m

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Qwiki is a New York-based photography company founded in 2011 by Louis Monier.

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$11.0m

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Aviary is a New York-based company founded in 2007 by Avi Muchnick, Michael Galpert and Israel Derdik.

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Lumoid is a company providing a try before you buy service for photography gear, drones, fitness trackers and audio gear. It also offers reviews, industry news, buying guides and opinions. It participated in the S13 cohort of Y Combinator.

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$7.6m

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A company providing a global operating system for freelance labor

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$14.3m

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Gowalla is an Austin, Texas-based photography company founded in 2020.

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$500.0k

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Pond5 is a New York City-based company founded in 2006.

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$3.0m

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Timehop is a smartphone app founded in 2011 by Jonathan Wegener.

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$1.7m

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Twenty20 is a company founded by Kevin Fremon, Matt Munson and Todd Emaus.

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$2.5m

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Snappr is a technology company for booking professional photographers founded in 2016.

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$12.6m

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Smilebox is a photography company founded in 2005 by Andrew Wright.

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$7.0m

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Prynt is an instant camera case for smartphones.

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$1.0m

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Gigapan is a global, privately held technology company founded in 2008.

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$175.0k

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Advanced Aerial Services, LLC is a company that offers services and equipment for unmanned aerial systems.

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$2.1m

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Vermeer is a company founded in 2015 by Brian Streem.

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$8.0m

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PhotoShelter is a New York-based company.

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$2.9m

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EmbodyMe is a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company developing technology for synthetic media, including for video chat, live stream, and video production.

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$5.5m

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Memoir is a New York City-based mobile application developer, offering a phone application allowing users to share photos with friends.

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$1.8m

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ShareGrid is a US-based e-commerce company co-founded by Arash Shiva, Brent Barbano, Marius Ciocirlan, and Siavash Shiva in 2013.

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$3.1m

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Let's Enhance is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2018.

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$1.9m

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$1.1m

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Precious is an application that automatically organizes baby's best pictures into timelapse videos.

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Ctrl Me Robotics, Inc. is a company that focuses on developing drones and related technology.

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$27.0m

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Peerspace is a peer-to-peer marketplace for booking space for events, meetings, and productions.

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$7.3m

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Aryeo is a Boston-based company.

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$25.0m

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Mylio provides a cloud-based photo management system that enables users to find, view, arrange, and edit photos and videos from various connected devices.

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ListingZen is a vendor and contract management operating system solution provider aimed at real estate agents.

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$16.8m

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Platform for automatically managing and securing image and video content using deep learning.

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$1.0m

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Lomography is a photography company.

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Snapjoy is a company providing an online photo storage service.

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$880.0k

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ReelSurfer is a company providing an online platform that enables users to clip and share videos from any website. It aims to build a content network from saved, watched and shared of users.

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$150.0k

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Pics.io is a New York-based company founded in 2009 by John Shpika, Konstantin Shtondenko and Vlad Tsepelev.

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Comixify is a New York City-based developer of artificial intelligence and synthetic media tools for video post-production.

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$15.2m

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Digital Railroad is a New York City-based company founded in 2003 by Evan Nisselson.

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$11.0m

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$51.2k

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EventsTag is a company founded in 2012 by Ollie Harridge.

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$23.1m

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Real Vision Group is a New York-based company founded in 2004 by Raoul Pal.

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$20.0m

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Mixbook is a Palo Alto, California-based company founded in 2006 by Andrew Laffoon.

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