The 2026 Visual 1st
Award winners:
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Visual 1st Best of Show award:
Sticker Camera
“Even though we felt that Sticker Camera is still at the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) stage, we believe it has tremendous potential. We were impressed by how these young entrepreneurs developed a device at an incredibly low cost point that is fun and engaging.
In essence, Sticker Camera is an appliance that is first of all a camera that lets you take photos, but in addition also lets you talk to it to add cool AI image elements, and finally lets your print your images as inexpensive stickers for immediate sharing.”
Rudy Burger, Founder & Managing Partner at Woodside Capital
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Visual 1st Best Business Potential award:
Imgix
Stay tuned for the judges’ considerations, as reported by:
Eran Steinberg, Co-Founder & Chairman at FotoNation
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Visual 1st Best Technology award:
Resemble.AI
“Considering the responsibility we all have in our industry, we believe full circle detection of deepfakes is an important problem to solve — which is exactly what Resemble AI showed us they’re focused on.
In particular, we liked how they demoed several important use cases, such as real time detection, and tooling and graphs to see more context of what was being detected.
We’d love to see how robust it is for the really hard cases, but it definitely displayed promising technology that we all need in order to be really responsible with the work we do.
Navin Sarma, AI Innovation and Research Product Lead, Google
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Visual 1st Special Recognition Award:
LifeWeaver
“My first reaction was: no way, this is never going to work for someone like me! But it triggered my curiosity — can there really be loads of meaningful information hidden in my fragmented text feeds that can frame a deep and colorful timeline of my past?
I had to immediately test it by exporting my own SMSes into Claude Code and ask it to create an organized summary of the events in my life — I was stunned!
So… LifeWeaver is targeting a really interesting use case, especially when combining text with visual memories!”
Sami Niemi, Partner, Spintop Ventures
