# IPMD, Inc.

> IPMD, Inc. is a San Mateo-based emotional AI company building software that reads human feelings from faces, voice, and language. Its flagship platform, Project M - now evolving into EchoAI - uses custom CNN-based deep learning to classify eight core emotions across roughly 400,000 intensity variations, reporting up to 96% ROC/AUC accuracy. Founded in 2016 out of UC Berkeley after the loss of a student to depression, IPMD applies its 'human-centered' emotional AI to telemedicine, mental-health support, and hiring, and is pursuing an FDA-regulated medical-device pathway.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founders:** Min Lee (Founder, CEO & President)
- **Team size:** ~33 employees; development involved nearly 500 (mostly UC Berkeley) contributors over the years
- **Products:** Project M, EchoAI, Emotional AI Interview Platform (IEAI), Emotional AI Telemedicine Platform, EchoBloom / House of Grace Initiative
- **Notable:** Reported over 95-96% ROC/AUC accuracy in facial emotion recognition., Built a proprietary dataset of 200,000+ accurately labeled emotion data points via ~130,000+ human hours., Publicly benchmarked Project M against Microsoft's emotion recognition.

## Products & services

- **Project M** — Flagship emotional AI platform using custom CNN-based algorithms to detect eight primary emotions (anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happy, neutral, sad, surprise) across roughly four intensities each - approximately 400,000 emotional variations - from facial micro and hidden expressions, reporting over 95-96% ROC/AUC accuracy.
- **EchoAI** — Human-centered agentic emotional AI platform that evaluates emotional states through multimodal analysis of facial expressions, language, tone, and micro-expressions, delivering a personalized emotional analysis report within seconds. Positioned as a clinical data engine for healthcare.
- **Emotional AI Interview Platform (IEAI)** — Virtual-interview tool that layers emotional AI over hiring conversations, letting recruiters gauge candidates' emotional responses and adaptively deepen questioning.
- **Emotional AI Telemedicine Platform** — Remote-diagnostics application that adds real-time emotional insight to telehealth interactions.
- **EchoBloom / House of Grace Initiative** — Programs pairing generative art with emotional AI to restore expression for people with disabilities, and a pathway to turn EchoAI into an FDA-regulated medical device.

## Achievements

- Reported over 95-96% ROC/AUC accuracy in facial emotion recognition.
- Built a proprietary dataset of 200,000+ accurately labeled emotion data points via ~130,000+ human hours.
- Publicly benchmarked Project M against Microsoft's emotion recognition.
- Named a MedTech Innovator / M7 2022 cohort finalist.
- Founder Min Lee recognized as 'Most Visionary CEO in Emotional AI & Human-Centred Healthcare Innovation.'
- Admitted to NVIDIA Inception and recognized as a Google technology build partner.

## Latest updates

- **2023-06** — Latest recorded funding (Seed) to accelerate EchoAI research and development.
- **2025-01** — EchoAI positioned as a human-centered agentic emotional AI clinical data engine; EchoBloom pathway toward FDA-regulated medical device announced.
- **2022-03** — Reported crossing 200,000 labeled data points and 95%+ ROC/AUC scores; MedTech Innovator finalist.

## Links

- Website: https://ipmdinc.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ipmd-inc.
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ipmd_m
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_AZ1G4RLK273vdo1pzz0VQ
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MprojectAI

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Last updated: 2026-08-04