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Traces

We analyze thousands of video streams to find and track people without facial recognition. Our tech is available as an API and has multiple use cases. Unique people counting, forensic people search, falsa alarm filtering and many more.

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Y Combinator
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2026-07-15
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Y Combinator

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We analyze thousands of video streams to find and track people without facial recognition. Our tech is available as an API and has multiple use cases. Unique people counting, forensic people search, falsa alarm filtering and many more.

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Traces is classified as Developer tools from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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APIUnique people countingforensic people searchfalsa alarm filteringmultiple use casesOur tech
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Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

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A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

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match 62

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shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: api, search, people; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Pigeonly

match 61

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shared extracted concept terms: people, api; shared product terms: people, search, find, api; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

rex.fit

match 60

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shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: track, tech, api, thousand; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Tint

match 47

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shared extracted concepts: api; shared product terms: tech, api; shared product theme: developer infrastructure; same category: Developer tools; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Beeper

match 45

We're building the best chat app on earth. Beeper connects to 15+ different chat networks. Unified search, advanced filtering and more. Available on Desktop, Android, iPhone and iPad. The idea is simple: messaging today is painfully fragmented. We're going to fix that. Every time we communicate there is friction lurking under the surface. E.g. Which app did I message her on? Where's that photo gone? Why can't I join an iMessage group from my Android? Our mission is to eliminate that friction and

shared extracted concept terms: search, filter; shared product terms: search, filter, available; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Young African Catalysts

match 44

CatalyzU is a tech-enabled ecosystem that uses data and the community to help people find work, and advance their skills.

shared extracted concept terms: people, tech; shared product terms: find, people, tech