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When Brian Brackeen, the founder and CEO of the facial recognition software company Kairos, was asked by customers for a capability his Miami startup didn’t have, he set out to change that. Those customers wanted not only the advanced facial recognition technology that Kairos offered, but they also wanted to know about emotions behind the face – are they happy, sad, attentive, agitated? How do they respond when they look at products? “We knew we didn’t have that capability so we went looking at companies in the space and found one that was far and away the best,” Brackeen said. On Monday, Kairos announced it acquired the New York-based emotion analysis startup IMRSV. With this acquisition, Kairos becomes the only facial biometrics company offering both facial recognition and emotion analysis tools for developers, said Brackeen. The IMRSV team will be moving to Miami. “I feel like I can finally offer my customers everything they want and it is all in house,” said Brackeen, who started the company in 2012. “The acquisition of IMRSV positions Kairos to take a leadership role in the rapidly growing facial biometrics sector. It also helps us, as a developer centric company, achieve our goal of delivering enterprise quality tools to developers and making facial biometrics and emotion analysis accessible to all.” Related KAIROS TEAM: Meyako Williams, Neil Pitts, CEO Brian Brackeen and Freddie Laker, at Kairos, a facial recognition company located in Wynwood. KAIROS TEAM: Meyako Williams, Neil Pitts, CEO Brian Brackeen and Freddie Laker, at Kairos, a facial recognition company located in Wynwood. | CHARLES TRAINOR JR MIAMI HERALD STAFF Brackeen said