The 2022 Visual 1st Award winners are:

  • Visual 1st Best of Show award: Kandao

  • Visual 1st Best Business Potential award: Zenfolio

  • Visual 1st Best Technology award: Twelve Labs

  • Visual 1st Special Recognition award: Zingcam

Best of Show award

 

Kandao goes beyond incremental improvement of existing technology by creating a truly innovative solution for creating and consuming 3D images. Their QooCam EGO consists of a stereoscopic camera, a 3D viewer that plugs into the camera, and an app for quick edits and adding 3D graphics.”

Andy Kelm, Managing Director at Palmarés Advisors

Best Business Potential award

 

“Zenfolio’s PhotoRefine.ai solution offers an exciting new way for Zenfolio’s professional photographer customers to save a substantial amount of time sorting, grouping and selecting photos for their clients.  Very simply, PhotoRefine allows photographers to complete more jobs in a given time period, thereby generating more income.  I’m really impressed at how Zenfolio is creatively using AI to solve a specific customer pain point and generate a very clear ROI.”

Jeff Herbst, Founding Managing Partner at GFT Ventures

Best Technology award

 

“Twelve Labs successfully tackles a compelling use case: search for and within videos. Having developed a multi-modal, contextual natural language solution, Twelve Labs makes it easy for consumers to search for and find the video fragments they’d like to watch. The natural language interface and the mapping of videos into a vectorized space allow for deeper queries and better contextual understanding, as their demo showed.”

Sami Niemi, Partner at Spintop Ventures  

Special Recognition award

 

“With visuals becoming so important to so many people in so many ways, I love the fact that Zingcam brings an element of wonder, whimsy, and delight to how consumers can enjoy viewing their visual memories as photo prints as well as fun videos.”

Anna Dickson, Visual Lead, Google Image Search at Google

2022 Visual 1st Awards Judges

The judging panel for the Visual 1st Awards is composed of prominent representatives of the technology and investment communities, whose endorsement is so critical to app developers.

This year’s judges were:

Anna Dickson
Visual Lead, Google Image Search
Google

Jeff Herbst
Founding Managing Partner
GFT Ventures