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| Company Name |
Picporta |
| Founded in |
2006 |
| Headquartered in |
Ahmedabad |
| Company website/URL |
www.picporta.com |
| Industry |
IT/ Internet/ Software |
| Stage of the company |
Have first customer |
| Source of idea |
Built hobby into a business |
| Awards & honors |
Finalists for Proto - July 2008.
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| Business description |
Picporta is a next generation image storage, indexing and search technology engine.
Essentially it being an expert system which not only relies on precise image recognition algorithms but also uses reasoning to reinforce the findings based on its prior knowledge and user feedback.
Fabulous application can be built over our machine vision engine ...> Read more.. |
Picporta is a next generation image storage, indexing and search technology engine.
Essentially it being an expert system which not only relies on precise image recognition algorithms but also uses reasoning to reinforce the findings based on its prior knowledge and user feedback.
Fabulous application can be built over our machine vision engine such as next generation gaming interfaces, interactive interfaces, augmented reality theme parks, intelligent surveillance systems and medical imaging applications.
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| How does the business make money? |
1) Providing Image searching with more data to paid users.
2) Licensing the technology to dating /marriage portals.
3) Licensing the technology to stock photography sites to find out misuse of their copyrighted art.
4) Picture selling (with automatic suggestions on the same type of pictures from other users).
5) Online picture printing.
6) Exclusive data storage solution with video content analysis.
7) Services for professional Photographers.
8) Mobile based point-click search. |
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| Team information |
-Vijaita Khandelwal, Project Manager
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| Competition |
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| Competitors |
Riya,Polar Rose
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| How different is your product or service? It has... |
Substitutes that differ in function |
| In what way is your product or service different? |
'Primarily our technology can search images for objects including people faces and backdrops of pictures - we are not only a face finding services...> Read more.. |
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| By The Numbers |
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2006 |
2007 |
| No. of employees |
0-5 |
0-5 |
| No. of locations |
0-1 |
0-1 |
| No. of customers |
2-5 |
2-5 |
| Turnover |
pre revenue |
pre revenue |
| Profits |
preprofit |
preprofit |
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| Primary source of initial funding |
Personal savings |
| Primary source of additional funding |
Personal savings |
| Raised institutional capital? |
No |
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| Why is this startup hot? |
Reasons are our answers to following problems:
Problem 1: Enormous pictures keep on accumulating on PC's, cameras and servers requiring manual organization into folders.
Problem 2: No means of finding out information about someone or something by uploading its picture from a camera phone.
Problem 3: Case study - I wanted to marry ...> Read more.. |
Reasons are our answers to following problems:
Problem 1: Enormous pictures keep on accumulating on PC's, cameras and servers requiring manual organization into folders.
Problem 2: No means of finding out information about someone or something by uploading its picture from a camera phone.
Problem 3: Case study - I wanted to marry a girl who resembles my college time crush - but I can't find a profile on any marriage/ dating portal based on the picture I have of my crush.
Problem 4: Case study: Being a stock photography company - we do not have a tool to find out that who is using our copyrighted pictures on internet - either by modifying or using as is.
Problem 5: Even today we use text to search pictures. Come on - its 21'st century dude!
Our Solution: We have devised a scalable image recognition and indexing system which provides the ability to upload - index - search pictures online /offline.
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| What keeps the team awake at night? |
| Accuracy of recognition and classification capabilities of our engine.
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