What Memento does

Memento, operating commercially as Memento Photo (MementoPhoto.AI), is a French AI company that has built a proprietary facial-recognition platform for the automated distribution of event photographs. Founded in 2018 and registered as MEMENTO SAS (RCS Versailles, SIREN 827 712 878) with operational offices in Paris (33 rue Lafayette, 75009) and New York (115 Broadway), the company's core product, MementoPhoto.AI, ingests professional event photographs and matches each attendee to the photos they appear in via a QR-code-triggered selfie flow, then delivers a branded private gallery accessible from a browser with no mobile app installation required. The underlying technology is a proprietary, in-house AI stack — trained, deployed, and operated entirely by Memento with no third-party models and no shared infrastructure — architected for US and EU regulatory frameworks, with a GDPR Article 35 Data Protection Impact Assessment filed with the French CNIL, full audit trail, encryption in transit and at rest, EU-only data residency in Belgium, customizable data-retention policies, and event-scoped explicit user consent for biometric processing. The platform is packaged in four use-case configurations layered on the same underlying engine: Corporate, Business Events, VIP Hospitality, and Education.

The business model is a sales-led, quote-based enterprise SaaS offering sold to event organizers through a structured demo request funnel and a four-person Chief Sales Officer team covering France (Charlotte, Antonin), France and the United States (Alexandre), and Spain and the United States (Natalia Sandova). Revenue combines a recurring enterprise subscription with usage-based scaling tied to the number of events served and attendee/photo volume processed; 7,500+ events have been powered globally to date. The customer base is enterprise-heavy and broadly diversified across verticals — banking and financial services (BNP Paribas, BPCE, Mastercard), professional services (KPMG, Capgemini, Accuracy), consumer goods (L'Oréal Paris), insurance (Zurich), restaurants (KFC), software and SaaS (Ivalua, Cvent, BigBoss), government (Mairie de Paris), motorsport (FIA), and numerous event industry associations and conferences (Comexposium, Viva Technology, WFA, ICCA, UFI, IPEM, Paris Blockchain Week, AI for Good Global Summit, CCI France International, Channel Marketing Association). The disclosed funding history consists solely of a 2018 seed round of $583,800 from Angelsquare, with no subsequent rounds, M&A activity, or parent-company relationship documented.

Name

Memento

Legal name

MEMENTO SAS

Website

https://business.memento.photo

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Memento Photo (MementoPhoto.AI) is a French AI company that uses proprietary facial recognition to automatically deliver event attendees a private gallery of the photos they appear in via QR-code-triggered selfie matching, serving enterprise event organizers and associations worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Paris

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Enterprise subscription for event photo platform: B2B SaaS-style offering sold to event organizers via a sales-led demo process; pricing is not publicly disclosed, indicating quote/contract-based recurring revenue typical of enterprise event-tech SaaS. Drives value through private galleries, branded customization and measurable photo engagement.
2. Per-event professional services / usage: Revenue scales with the number of events (7,500+ events served globally) and the volume of attendees/photos processed per engagement, implying event- or usage-based components layered on top of the core subscription.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

MementoPhoto.AI is an AI-driven event photo experience platform that uses proprietary, in-house facial recognition to automatically deliver each attendee a private, branded gallery containing only the photos they appear in. The workflow is: a professional photographer uploads event photos, attendees scan a QR code and take a selfie (with explicit consent) for biometric matching, and the platform instantly serves a personalized gallery with one-click LinkedIn sharing — no mobile app installation required.

Product overview

Memento offers a single unified product platform, MementoPhoto.AI, which is an AI-driven event photo experience platform. The core platform delivers branded, GDPR-compliant private galleries by combining professional event photography with proprietary in-house facial recognition — attendees scan a QR code, take a selfie for consent-based biometric matching, and instantly receive only the photos they appear in, with one-click LinkedIn sharing and engagement analytics. On top of this single platform, Memento positions four vertical use-case configurations — Corporate, Business Events, VIP Hospitality, and Education — that adapt the same underlying MementoPhoto.AI engine to specific event types (e.g., advanced VIP pre-registration workflows for VIP Hospitality, and scalable configurations for corporate internal events). The platform itself is the offering; the four use-case configurations are packaging of the same engine rather than separate technical products.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• MementoPhoto.AI AI-driven event photo experience platform for enterprise event organizers: professional event photographs are uploaded by the photographer, attendees scan a QR code and take a selfie (with explicit consent), and proprietary in-house facial recognition automatically populates each attendee's private, branded gallery with only the photos they appear in — no mobile app installation required, with one-click LinkedIn sharing and engagement analytics.

Quantifiable outcome

• Drives 2–5× more organic shares
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers27 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• LinkedIncoreTechnology or IntegrationMemento Photo lists LinkedIn both as a customer/logo and as a built-in distribution channel: the product features "Seamless LinkedIn sharing to extend event impact" so attendees can share branded galleries in one click, and the company maintains a corporate LinkedIn presence (memento-photo) where prospects are directed to "Follow us". This is a product-level integration rather than a reseller or investor relationship.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Cvent: Major event-management SaaS platform (registration, venue sourcing, attendee engagement) that is already a Memento customer logo. It is a broad incumbent that could embed or acquire a face-matching feature, and represents the primary platform risk to a standalone event-photo vendor like Memento.
• Bizzabo: Enterprise event-experience platform covering registration, onsite and attendee engagement for B2B conferences. Comparable as a broader event-tech suite that could bundle a photo experience, putting pricing pressure on Memento's standalone value.
• Eventbrite: Large global ticketing and event-management platform serving many of the same trade show and conference organizers as Memento. Adjacent incumbent that influences how event organizers procure photo and engagement add-ons.

Direct peers

• Waldo Photos: US-based facial-recognition photo delivery platform for sports, schools and events. Direct competitor to Memento's core use case of matching attendees to event photos via face recognition and delivering a private digital gallery.
• Pickle: Facial-recognition event photo app focused on nightlife, festivals and brand activations. Direct competitor to Memento in using face recognition to deliver personalized event photo galleries at scale, though with a more consumer/PMA motion.
• Pic-Time: Photography business platform (galleries, sales, delivery) used by professional photographers, including event photographers. Comparable because many of Memento's uploaders are pro event photographers who also use Pic-Time for gallery distribution.
• Pixieset: Online gallery, studio management and delivery platform for professional photographers. Comparable adjacent peer serving the same photographer customer that Memento depends on for upload and event coverage.

Emerging players

• CrowdPix: Event photo platform that distributes event photos to attendees via facial recognition and self-tagging. Closest emerging direct competitor to Memento in face-based event photo delivery, smaller in scale.
• Spotlite: AI-powered event photo and video platform that uses face recognition to deliver personalized highlights to attendees. Direct emerging competitor with comparable facial recognition-to-gallery product motion.

Regional players

• Socio: Event technology platform with strong presence among event organizers, associations and conferences. Comparable as an event-tech suite that event organizers may use in place of, or alongside, Memento.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/memento-photo

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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