IMINT Image Intelligence AB

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Vidhance AB (formerly known as IMINT Image Intelligence AB)
Company typePublic
Industry Software, Image analysis
Founded2007
Headquarters Uppsala, Sweden
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
 Nils Hulth (CEO)
Johan Qviberg (Chairman)
Products Software
Website vidhance.com

Vidhance AB, is a software company providing smartphone manufacturers with video analysis software with headquarters in Uppsala, Sweden.

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History

The company was founded in 2007 by Jakob Sandström (CTO) and Harald Klomp (CEO). In 2008, the private investment company Professionell Ägarstyrning i Sverige AB [1] and Uppsala University holding company Uppsala Universitets Utvecklings AB [2] invested in the company. Initially Imint focused on providing video analysis and optimizations to unmanned aerial systems. [3]

On 6 April 2009, Imint was selected by Stockholm Innovation & Growth (STING) as one of the 26 hottest young technology companies in Sweden. [4]

In 2010, the Swedish government venture capital firm Almi Invest [5] joined as minority owners.

In 2012, Imint changed management, appointing Andreas Lifvendahl as CEO and Simon Mika as CTO. Under the new management Imint broadened to also include civil uses of unmanned aerial systems [6] and even venturing into totally new markets. [7]

In 2014, Vidhance Mobile was launched, initially featuring smartphone video stabilization. [8] On 8 October 2014, Imint was awarded the Young Bulls Award Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine in a ceremony in Barcelona, Spain. [9] They also won the Young Bulls Award the 2015. [10]

In December the 2015, after a public funding round that was more than seven times oversubscribed [11] the company was listed on the micro cap list Aktietorget. During the first three hours of trading the share increased its value by 250%. [12]

In 2023 Nils Hulth was appointed CEO of the company and the 29th of december 2023 Imint went through a name change and since the name of the company is the same as the product Vidhance.

Products

At present, Vidhance has three main product categories on the market which each contains features for different stages of the video life-cycle. Besides the main features there are also Add-ons available for each product:

Available subfeatures (Add-ons)

[17]

Multi-platform support

As announced by the company on 2 October 2018, Imint's camera- and video enhancing software now supports Android, Windows and Linux OS with version 3.0. [18]

Customers

Aerospace and Defence

Imint has in the past had several customers in the aerospace and defence industry. Among them are: [19]

Smartphone manufacturers

Today Imint's software is present in around 55 million android-based smartphones from several manufactures. [23] The following have been confirmed through firmware analysis and/or other channels:

Future markets

Medical, Surveillance, Action Cameras, Drones and IoT (Internet of Things)

Besides Vidhance's current main market in the smartphone industry, the Vidhance team are also looking to apply their technology and expertise into new markets in the near future. As of 14 November 2017. the company announced a research collaboration with Swedish Kontigo Care and their advanced eHealth platform Previct®. [36]

As stated on Vidhance's website, the company also got ambitions to enter markets for Surveillance, Action Cameras, Drones and IoT (Internet of Things) [37]

Offices

The company headquarters is based in Uppsala, Sweden, part of the Stockholm-Uppsala software technology corridor, a prominent software cluster. [38]

Sales & support offices are also available in Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo.

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References

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  2. ↑ Uppsala Universitets Utveckling AB http://www.uuab.uu.se Archived 2008-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
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