AI spin-off Sightcorp acquired by American company Raydiant

What started as a spin-off of the UvA's Informatics Institute is now a successfully developed technology that is ready for the global market. Sightcorp, specialist in the field of digital out-of-home artificial intelligence, has been acquired by the American company Raydiant. The company takes over Sightcorp's team, company name and technology. The company Sightcorp was founded by Professor of Computer Vision Theo Gevers and researcher Roberto Valenti as a spin-off of the University of Amsterdam. The aim of the spin-off company was to transform research in the field of computer vision and deep learning into commercial and usable software to provide customers personalized insights into consumer behavior. The technology enables media owners to provide advertisers and media buyers with meaningful audience insights and data visualizations based on anonymous live analytics. Sightcorp's product and its related academic research have received a lot of academic and commercial attention and appreciation from around the world in recent years.