Coactive AI
Category: AI in Analytics & BI
An AI platform that structures and analyzes unstructured visual data (images and video), making it searchable and actionable through SQL and existing data tools. Coactive AI was founded in 2021. The company is led by Cody Coleman. Based in San Jose, California, USA. Team size: 51-100. Total funding raised: $48.5 million. Latest round: Series B ($30M, May 2024). Key investors include Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, SV Angel, Greycroft.
- Founded
- 2021
- Headquarters
- San Jose, California, USA
- Team size
- 51-100
- Total funding
- $48.5 million
Value proposition
Enables organizations to unlock insights from their image and video assets by making them searchable and analyzable without requiring manual labeling or deep ML expertise.
Products and solutions
Coactive Platform for structuring and analyzing visual data, Visual Search for enterprise-scale datasets, Automated tagging and classification models, API integrations for workflow automation
Unique value
Specializes in transforming unstructured visual data into a structured format that can be queried using standard tools like SQL, making complex AI analysis accessible to non-technical users.
Target customer
Enterprises and data-driven teams with large volumes of unstructured visual data, including Fortune 500 companies.
Industries served
Retail & CPG, Media & Entertainment, Social Media & User-Generated Content, Insurance, Manufacturing
Technology advantage
Proprietary multimodal foundation models trained on enterprise-relevant data, a no-code interface for business users, and deep integration with existing data cloud ecosystems like Snowflake and Databricks.
How they differentiate
Coactive focuses on providing a user-friendly, no-code UI for business analysts and deep integration with SQL, whereas competitors are often API-first and developer-focused. It specializes in building custom models on a client's own private, unlabeled visual data.
Main competitors
Clarifai, Hive AI, Scale AI
Key partnerships
Snowflake (Premier Partner), Databricks, Integrations with cloud storage providers (AWS S3, Google Cloud Platform, Azure)
Notable customers
Poshmark, Etsy, Serves multiple Fortune 500 enterprises
Major milestones
Founded (2021), Raised $4.5M Seed Round (Nov 2021), Raised $14M Series A (Nov 2022), Raised $30M Series B (May 2024), Named to CB Insights' 'AI 100' list
Growth metrics
Processing billions of images and videos monthly across customer deployments; selected for the CB Insights AI 100 list.
Market positioning
Positioned as a premium, enterprise-grade solution for organizations needing highly accurate search and classification on their own unique visual data.
Geographic focus
Primarily North America, with expansion into other regions through multinational customers.
Patents and IP
No public record of granted patents; core IP is in proprietary model architectures and training pipelines.
About Cody Coleman
Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf, a founding member of MLCommons, and his work spans developing standards and benchmarks for high-performance deep learning to data-centric AI.
Official website: https://www.coactive.ai/