SenseTime - About the company
SenseTime is a public company based in Hong Kong (China), founded in 2014 by Li Xu and Tang Xiao'ou. It operates as an AI based platform offering image recognition solutions. SenseTime has raised $2.82B in funding from investors like CDH, IDG Capital and Alibaba Group. The company has 434 active competitors, including 45 funded and 9 that have exited. Its top competitors include companies like Blaize, Modal and QpiAI.
Sectors and market segments that SenseTime operate in
SenseTime serves in the High Tech, Native AI market segments.The primary business model of SenseTime are:- High Tech > AI Infrastructure > ***** **** > ***** ******
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- High Tech > Image Recognition > ***** **** > ***** ******
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Company Details
AI based platform offering image recognition solutions. It is focused on creating a better AI-empowered future through innovation. It is committed to advancing the state of the art in AI research, developing scalable and affordable AI software platforms that benefit businesses, people and society as a whole, while attracting and nurturing top talents to shape the future together. It invest in its original and cutting-edge research that allows to offer and continuously improve industry-leading AI capabilities in universal multimodal and multi-task models, covering key fields across perception intelligence, natural language processing, decision intelligence, AI-enabled content generation, as well as key capabilities in AI chips, sensors and computing infrastructure.
- Website
- www.sensetime.com/en
- Social
- Email ID
- *****@sensetime.com
- Phone Number
- +86 **********
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2014
Location
Hong Kong, China
Stage
Public
Total Funding
$2.82B in 11 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Ranked
3rd among 434 active competitors
Annual Revenue
$1B+ as on Dec 31, 2022
Employee Count
2,221 as on Sep 30, 2026
Investment & Acquisitions
Exit Details
Public
Legal entities associated with SenseTime
SenseTime is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Reports |
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SENSETIME GROUP INC. CIN: KYG8062L1041 , China, Active | Jan 09, 2014 | $1B+ (As on Dec 31, 2022) | - | - |
SenseTime Group Inc CIN: 2162198 , China, Active | Oct 14, 2014 | - | - | - |
SenseTime's IPO details
SenseTime got listed on Dec 30, 2021.
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SenseTime's funding and investors
SenseTime has raised a total funding of $2.82B over 11 rounds. Its first funding round was on Nov 07, 2014. Its latest funding round was a Post IPO round on Apr 20, 2026 for $73.3M. 5 investors participated in its latest round. SenseTime has 68 institutional investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of SenseTime:
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Filter this listDate of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
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Apr 20, 2026 | $73.3M | Post IPO | - | - | - | |
Nov 17, 2025 | Undisclosed | Post IPO | - | - | - | |
Dec 17, 2021 | Undisclosed | Series D | - | - | - |
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SenseTime's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileHere are the details of SenseTime's key team members:
- Li Xu: Co-Founder & CEO of SenseTime and founder of 1 other company.
- Tang Xiao'ou: Co-Founder of SenseTime.
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SenseTime's employee count trend
SenseTime has 2,221 employees as of Sep 26. Here is SenseTime's employee count trend over the years:
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SenseTime's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of SenseTime include Blaize, Modal and QpiAI. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of SenseTime, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
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1st |  Blaize 2010, El Dorado Hills (United States), Public | Developer of hardware and software solutions optimizing artificial intelligence applications | $136M | 77/100 | |
2nd |  Modal 2021, New York City (United States), Series D | Provider of serverless platform for developing and deploying AI applications | $1.22B | 72/100 | |
3rd | AI based platform offering image recognition solutions | $2.82B | 70/100 | ||
4th | Developer of integrated quantum computing hardware and artificial intelligence software | $54.1M | 63/100 | ||
5th | PopID 2017, Los Angeles (United States), Series B | Provider of face and palm biometric identity verification gateway solutions | $18.5M | 63/100 | |
6th | MangoBoost 2022, Bellevue (United States), Series B | Developer of data processing unit solutions for scalable data centers | $72.5M | 62/100 | |
7th |  Myelin Foundry 2019, Bengaluru (India), Series B | Developer of edge artificial intelligence solutions for automotive, industrial, and media | $16M | 58/100 | |
8th |  DeGirum 2017, Santa Clara (United States), Series A | Developer of an AI platform, software, and hardware acceleration solutions | $18M | - | 52/100 |
9th |  Agrani Labs 2024, Bengaluru (India), Seed | Developer of next-generation artificial intelligence compute hardware and end-to-end software solutions for enterprise and datacenter environments | $10.1M | 48/100 | |
10th |  Turiyam.ai 2024, Bengaluru (India), Seed | Developer of artificial general intelligence | $4.27M | 47/100 |
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SenseTime's Investments and acquisitions
SenseTime has not made any acquisitions yet. SenseTime has made 28 investments.Here is the list of latest three $investments:Filter this list
Filter this listDate of Investment/Acquisition | Type | Company Name | Founded Year | Location |
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Oct 26, 2026 | Investments | 2023 | Beijing (China) | |
Jul 31, 2026 | Investments | - | ||
Jul 17, 2026 | Investments | 2025 | Beijing (China) |
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Reports related to SenseTime
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News related to SenseTime
Filter this listMedia has covered SenseTime for a total of 27 events in the last 1 year, 8 of them have been about company updates.
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SiliconFlow Raises Over 2 Billion Yuan in Significant Funding Round for AI Token FactoryBEAMSTART•Sep 21, 2026•Trip, SenseTime
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SenseTime Completes Hundreds of Millions in Series A FundingSina•Aug 19, 2026•IDG Capital, SenseTime
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SiliconFlow Secures $294 Million in Series B Funding to Meet China's Surging AI Inference DemandCaixin Global•Jun 17, 2026•SiliconFlow, SenseTime, Trip
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Compri secures €3.2M to build AI-powered procurement teamsTMTpost•Jun 16, 2026•SiliconFlow, Walden International, Kingdee, Guotai Junan Innovation Investment and 6 others
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ACE Robotics Secures Hundreds of Millions in Funding Amidst Strong Investor Interest in RoboticsCaixin Global•Jun 16, 2026•Ace Robotics, SenseTime, SiliconFlow, Jinko Solar and 2 others
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PixelBloom Raises Series C Funding Led by Guoke Investment and SenseTime Guoxiang Capital to Advance AI Office SolutionsThe SaaS News•Jun 09, 2026•AiPPT, PIXELBLOOM, SenseTime
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Force Ingenuity merges shopping logistics robot company Atomix, embodied intelligence competes for real scene dataReadhub•Jun 05, 2026•SenseTime
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