53 State Street
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Boston, MA 02109
In Downtown Boston
We spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009 and are backed by leading investors including Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, Horizon Ventures, Fenox Venture Capital and WPP.
Rana el Kaliouby and Rosalind Picard, who co-founded Affectiva, are the pioneers of affective computing. Rana is Affectiva's CEO and Rosalind heads up the Affective Computing group at MIT Media Lab.
Leading market research firms like Millward Brown, LRW, Added Value and Unruly, and brands like Mars, Kellogg’s and CBS, use our technology to measure consumer emotion responses to digital content, such as ads and TV programming.
Our Emotion AI is used in gaming, automotive, robotics, education, healthcare, experiential marketing, retail, human resources, video communication, and more.
We come out of academia and business with science and art degrees. We stem from all over the world. We pride ourselves on diversity - that is what fosters creativity and innovation!