
Clarifai is an independent artificial intelligence company that specializes in computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. One of the first deep learning platforms having been founded in 2013, Clarifai provides an AI platform for unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. Its platform supports the full AI lifecycle for data exploration, data labeling, model training, evaluation, and inference around images, video, text, and audio data. Headquartered in Washington DC, Clarifai uses machine learning and deep neural networks to identify and analyze images, videos, text, and audio automatically. Clarifai enables users to implement AI technology into their products via API, Mobile SDK, and/or on-premise solutions.

Clarifai is an independent artificial intelligence company that specializes in computer vision, natural language processing, and audio recognition. One of the first deep learning platforms having been founded in 2013, Clarifai provides an AI platform for unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. Its platform supports the full AI lifecycle for data exploration, data labeling, model training, evaluation, and inference around images, video, text, and audio data. Headquartered in Washington DC, Clarifai uses machine learning and deep neural networks to identify and analyze images, videos, text, and audio automatically. Clarifai enables users to implement AI technology into their products via API, Mobile SDK, and/or on-premise solutions.
Founded: 2013
Founder: Matthew (Matt) Zeiler, Ph.D.
Core product: Enterprise AI platform for unstructured image, video, text, and audio
Tech focus: Computer vision, NLP, audio recognition; model-agnostic orchestration
Known funding: Approximately $100–101M (Series C $60M in 2021 led by NEA)
Operationalizing and scaling AI for unstructured data (images, video, text, audio) in enterprise environments.
2013
Software Development
$~10M
$30M
$60M
Round reported to value company at ~$775M in PitchBook reporting