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ArcSoft
ArcSoft spent three decades teaching cameras to do more than record a scene. Now its code improves phone photos, reads the cabin and helps cars understand the road - usually without the person using it ever seeing the name.
Ziv Attar
Ziv Attar is the co-founder and CEO of Glass Imaging, a California startup building GlassAI, a neural image processing system that corrects optical aberrations and sensor imperfections to pull sharper, more detailed pictures out of small cameras. An optical engineer trained at the Technion, he founded LinX Imaging in 2011 and sold it to Apple in 2015, then led computational photography work at Apple including the Portrait Mode that shipped on the iPhone 7+. In 2025 Glass Imaging raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners.
GLASS Imaging
GLASS Imaging is a Los Altos, California startup building GlassAI, a neural image signal processor (Neural ISP) that uses AI to reverse lens aberrations and sensor imperfections and pull DSLR-grade detail out of the tiny cameras inside smartphones, drones, and wearables. Founded by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, the company licenses its software to device makers - it debuted commercially in the Honor 600 smartphone in 2026 - and pitches itself as recovering real detail from RAW sensor data rather than hallucinating pixels. It has raised roughly $29-31M, including a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners in 2025.
Michael Deng
Michael Deng is the founder, Chairman, President, and CEO of ArcSoft, a Fremont, California-based computer vision and AI imaging company he started in 1994 with $150,000 from family and friends. Over three decades, he built ArcSoft into a global leader powering the cameras of Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Sony, and dozens more, then pivoted to automotive AI vision - driver monitoring, ADAS, and in-cabin sensing. When ArcSoft listed on Shanghai's STAR Market in 2021, Deng became a billionaire with a stake valued at roughly $1.1 billion. Today he's steering the company into AI glasses, XR headsets, robotics, and AIGC creative tools.