
Shadow is a community-led application that helps to reunite lost pets with owners across the USA by leveraging a combination of a volunteer network and A.I. technology to help dog owners, in particular. They work with animal shelters and rescue organizations around the U.S. to pull in photos of the dogs they’re currently housing and supplement this with photos from social media platforms. Shadow claims to use A.I. technology to match the photograph of the missing dogs to possible matches from nearby shelters or the web. The app relies on a network of volunteers who help to review photographs from shelters and broadcast missing posters to social media sites to increase the chances of the dog being found.

Shadow is a community-led application that helps to reunite lost pets with owners across the USA by leveraging a combination of a volunteer network and A.I. technology to help dog owners, in particular. They work with animal shelters and rescue organizations around the U.S. to pull in photos of the dogs they’re currently housing and supplement this with photos from social media platforms. Shadow claims to use A.I. technology to match the photograph of the missing dogs to possible matches from nearby shelters or the web. The app relies on a network of volunteers who help to review photographs from shelters and broadcast missing posters to social media sites to increase the chances of the dog being found.
What they do: Community-led app that helps reunite lost pets (focus on dogs) using volunteers and AI image-matching
Founder / CEO: Cyrus Massoumi
Team size (reported): 4 employees
Reported total funding: USD 6,000,000 (latest listed round Jan 2020)
Lost pet recovery / animal reunification
2016
Pet tech / nonprofit-style public benefit company
Latest listed funding date on company records; Crunchbase indicates two rounds and seven investors including Gaingels and Firstminute Capital
“Company records list seven investors with Gaingels and Firstminute Capital named among recent backers”