INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
French startup Foodvisor has raised a $4.5 million funding round after generating 2 million app downloads
Agrinnovation is leading the round and various business angels are also participating.
I covered Foodvisor last month, so I&m not going to
describe the app once again
In a few words, the startup uses deep learning to enable image recognition to detect what you&re about to eat
It can detect the type of food and it also tries to estimate the weight of each item.
Foodvisor calculates the distance between your plate
and your phone using autofocus data from the camera
It then calculates the area of each item in your plate
You can manually correct information before you log it.
Foodvisor automatically tracks what you eat using deep learning
With today funding
round, the startup plans to improve the app and hire 15 more persons
The app recently launched in the U.S
and the company thinks it represents a good market opportunity.
