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SenseTime
Developing technology that employs AI to quickly identify and analyze identities using cameras
At a glance
- Founded
- 2014
- Headquarters
- Sha Tin District, Hong Kong
- Listing
- IPO 2021
- Sector
- Enterprise Software · Public safety
- Power Law
- Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue
Latest news
Press, funding announcements and product moves mentioning SenseTime.
Investors
From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.
Series A3 investors entered at this stage
IDG Capital- SVStar VC
- STStarVC
Series B and later19 investors entered at this stage
Alibaba- ACAdvantech Capital
- TKThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
- SUSuning
5Y Capital
Tiger Global- HFHOPU Fund
SoftBank Vision Fund
CICC
Fidelity Investments- SCSailing Capital
- CBChina Merchants Bank
SoftBank- WGWanda Group
CDH Investments
Qualcomm
Temasek- Qualcomm Ventures
Silver Lake Partners
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence.
Alumni founders
Former SenseTime employees who went on to found companies, sorted by Dealroom signal score.
MAMiniMax AIEst. 2021
Junjie YanChina
VAVast | Tripo AIEst. 2023
Simon SongChina
MOMomenta.aiEst. 2016
Yan XiaChina
MAMantasEst. 2024
Basil MimiUnited Arab Emirates
SMSmartMoreEst. 2019
Shu LiuHong KongGlobal footprint
team presence
across markets
Patents
1,097 active patent families included in this estimate.
A patent family groups patent filings for the same invention. Source: Dealroom · PatSnap.
Investments and acquisitions
Disclosed deals where SenseTime was the backer or acquirer, 2016–2026. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
25 deals across SenseTime's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
Where SenseTime deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
SenseTime's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
An AI-synthesised read of the highest-engagement posts about SenseTime on X, ranked by likes and reposts, corporate channels excluded.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
See SenseTime on the full Dealroom platform
Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.