Glass Imaging Raises $20M to Expand AI Imaging Tech

Glass Imaging, a developer of AI-enhanced imaging technology, secured $20 million in a series A funding round. The company plans to use the funds to refine and implement it proprietary "GlassAI" technologies across a wide range of platforms, including smartphones, drones, and wearables.

Glass Imaging uses AI to extract the full image quality potential on current and future cameras by reversing lens aberrations and sensor imperfections. Specifically, the company’s technology platform corrects optical aberrations and sensor imperfections while reducing noise to deliver fine texture and real image content recovery that outperforms traditional images signal processing pipelines. The company works with manufacturers to integrate GlassAI software to boost camera performance 10× resulting in sharper, more detailed images under various conditions that remain true to life without hallucinations or optical distortions.

Two photos captured by a mid-range Android smartphone. The left is an unprocessed image taken by the smartphone. The right was captured with the same hardware but processed by Glass Imaging’s AI software. Courtesy of Glass Imaging.

Two photos captured by a mid-range Android smartphone. Left: an unprocessed image taken by the smartphone. Right: an image captured with the same hardware, but processed by Glass Imaging’s AI software. Courtesy of Glass Imaging.

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The company is currently developing licensable intellectual property, including GlassAI, across novel camera architectures and software-based solutions. Exploiting the power of edge AI chips present in today’s devices, according to the company, its GlassAI software can be tailored for any current or new camera to deliver photo quality far exceeding those shipped by OEMs. Glass Imaging is also using this technology to enable a new class of optical hardware designs that overcome limitations of traditional camera architectures, it said.

Glass Imaging was founded by Ziv Attar and Bishop, former Apple engineers who led the team behind the iPhone’s Portrait Mode. The broader Glass Imaging team has expertise across optical engineering, computational imaging, deep learning and efficient computer vision algorithms.

Glass Imaging previously raised a $9.3 million extended seed funding round in 2024, which followed an initial seed investment in 2021. The current funding was led by Insight Partners, with participation from repeat investors Google Ventures, Future Ventures, and Abstract Ventures.

Published: May 2025

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