Computer Vision Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) 2024

Matterport is an immersive media technology company that is shaking up the 3D / VR world. Our team has built the first end-to-end system for creating, modifying, distributing, and navigating immersive 3D and virtual reality (VR) versions of real-world spaces on web and mobile devices. Matterport offers the world's most inexpensive and simplest way to capture 3D spaces. Our products include: - Matterport Pro Camera for capturing real spaces in 3D. It collects accurate visual and spatial data to map entire areas in minutes and is all about automation and ease of use. - The Matterport Cloud for processing and hosting 3D models - Matterport Portal, our system for viewing, editing, and managing models; collaborating with colleagues; and sharing models with others - Matterport 3D Showcase, a browser-based 3D media player, which allows anyone to view 3D models in their browser with no additional software - Matterport Core VR: All Spaces can be converted to VR and experienced on Samsung Gear VR or Google Cardboard (in beta), with additional device support coming soon. Matterport 3D media solutions power industries from real estate (residential, multi-family and commercial) and travel and hospitality (hotels, vacation rentals, and venue booking), to business listings, architecture, engineering and construction, news and entertainment, and everything in between. We’re growing fast. If you’re passionate about solving cutting-edge problems in computer vision and hardware design and creating order-of-magnitude improvements in the ability to easily create and share 3D models of real world spaces, we want to talk to you. See open positions at matterport.com/jobs. Try Matterport for yourself at matterport.com/try.

Mashgin creates better retail experiences through visual automation. We’ve built a self-checkout kiosk that uses computer vision to scan multiple items without barcodes, reducing checkout time by 10x. We’re completely recreating the checkout experience in an industry that’s had little innovation in decades. Our clients see dramatic reductions in lines and revenue increases of as much as 400% as a result.

Caper focuses on compacting Amazon-Go's technology (image recognition, sensor fusion and artificial intelligence) into a smart shopping cart, allowing each shopper to throw her groceries into the cart and self-checkout without cashiers. The technology is looking to fundamentally transform physical retail and rapidly scale into existing grocery stores.

Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and automate the immediate dispatch of human resources. Ambient.ai is the first platform that goes beyond basic motion detection and image recognition to achieve near-human perception with automated situational context. With physical security incidents on the rise and physical security organizations left under-resourced, Ambient.ai’s computer intelligence platform comes at a time of critical need, which is why the company has raised over $50 million from venture capital investors led by a16z. Today, large enterprises, schools and organizations – including many of the largest US tech companies and other Fortune 500 companies – use Ambient.ai to secure property, people, and assets from the most harrowing physical security threats. The company was founded in 2017 by experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, Y Combinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie and Elad Gil.

Roboflow enables developers to make the world programmable. Use our tools to build better datasets (collect image, video / annotate), models (foundation and fine tuned small models), and deployments (self hosted, edge, APIs, SDKs) for computer vision. Over 250k developers, including those from over half the Fortune 100, build with our open source and hosted tools. Build with us: https://app.roboflow.com Hack with us: https://roboflow.slab.com/public/posts/roboflow-hackathons-external-u478m1iz Work with us: roboflow.com/careers

Shape is a health tech startup based in San Francisco, California. We are backed by Y Combinator and the company is led by experienced hardware serial entrepreneurs. Shape has designed a product called ShapeScale. ShapeScale is transforming the way we measure our health goals by enabling you to visualize yourself in 3D and see where you have been losing fat and gaining muscle.

Veryfi is a Data Transformation Platform turning Documents into Data in Seconds with Accuracy & Speed Surpassing Humans. Veryfi gives you a fully integrated suite of data transformation products for you to securely capture, extract and transform bills, receipts and invoices into structured data for use in your app, website or backoffice. To learn more https://www.veryfi.com/ ITS TIME TO BUILD Veryfi's developer friendly toolkits enable superior products that automate Expense Management, AP/Bill Pay, Bookkeeping and provide consumer spend behavior in Market Research Invoices, Bills & POs 10 mins of data entry per invoice? No way! 5 seconds and it's done. Untap a goldmine of data down to line-items. Expense Receipts No more painful data entry for expense reimbursement. Bonus: comply with new data privacy regulations. FMCG/CPG Receipts Data is the new oil. Understand consumer spend across retail from SKUs in seconds. Hotel Folios Supercharge your travel & expense management product with a wealth of data minus the tedious data entry. W-2 Tax Form β Extract every drop of tax data from W2s in seconds. Including handwritten notes, checkboxes and multi-lines. Cards β Capture and extract data Credit Cards, Business Cards and Healthcare Insurance Cards in seconds. More: https://www.veryfi.com/

DeepNight is building the next generation of night vision with AI.

Cerelyze develops machine vision systems that leverage vision foundation models to automate visual inspections without any re-training between parts necessary. Cerelyze has partnered with multiple tier 1 automotive parts manufacturers and is helping them become more efficient and fault-free.

Overview is a company that takes the cutting edge in computer vision and deep learning and applies it to previously unsolvable manufacturing inspection problems. We are truly a full stack company. We install physical cameras into the facility, run inference on the edge and manage massive deployments. Overview also streams gigabytes of video/image data to the cloud for our web platform to give customers advanced insights and analytics.

Shasta Health enables physical therapists to go independent, so they can make 3X more than working for a big clinic. Our AI platform automates patient acquisition, billing, and engagement, so they can focus on treating patients rather than running a business.

MICSI is introducing AI software that doubles resolution and halves scan time. This breakthrough enables imaging centers to significantly enhance their capacity and patient throughput, potentially saving countless lives and generating an additional $2 million of revenue per MRI scanner. Our initial offering serves as a stepping stone toward the company’s larger vision of transforming the MRI into a truly quantitative instrument that is capable of providing highly reproducible data for more accurate diagnoses and patient management.

We are combining synthetic biology and artificial intelligence to make cancer screening as easy as a pregnancy test. Cleancard is bringing lab-grade diagnostics into the comfort of your home. Our novel method enables robust diagnostics and biomarker tracking from the urine in just 30 minutes. Our rapid at-home screens can identify prostate, bladder and ovarian cancers. We are constantly expanding the number of conditions we can detect from a single sample using our platform technology.

Encord is a machine learning company that builds data development infrastructure for the AI revolution. Encord is the leading data development platform for advanced vision & multimodal AI teams. We build tools and infrastructure to help our clients get their models into production faster with a data-centric model testing and evaluation framework, human-centric workflow and annotation tools for labeling & RLHF, and data curation and management software.

Dragoneye helps devs build powerful apps and features that use images and videos. With our cutting-edge AI tech, folks can recognize things in the world with high accuracy and deep granularity, right out of the box. No more arduous process of annotating any training data or doing any machine learning work themselves. For example, retailers can turn their product images into rich product metadata. With this highly detailed metadata, we help these companies to supercharge their commerce solutions and importantly, drive revenue by enhancing everything from site search to buying analytics. Overview Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opRMn48z9dM

Hellometer helps fast food owners' grow same store sales using security cameras to improve customer wait times. Speed of service is fast food's core value proposition (it’s literally in the name) and owners currently don't have a reliable way to measure it. We show them when and where they have slowdowns and for every 7s they improve service times, owners see 1% increase in revenue.

Oda is an AI agent for home design. Homebuyers and renters alike can use Oda to discover their interior design preferences, apply those preferences to their new home, and then find the best furniture, décor, and appliances aggregated from many different online retailers. Oda distributes its product to homebuyers and renters through partnerships with real estate companies and platforms. Real estate partners add Oda AI iFrames to their websites to showcase listed homes with AI-generated designs. Each AI iFrame is directly linked to an Oda board, allowing consumers to transition from an iFrame to Oda to further personalize the designs and create their dream home.

Tenyks (YC'S21) is a University of Cambridge spin-out inventing the intelligence that powers the AI revolution to protect the world from the Terminator. Imagine Snowflake for Vision, helping ML Engineers build better, safer models, in a faster and more efficient way. Specifically, our end-to-end platform is CV Engineers' Ultimate Productivity Tool to: 1. Automate Data Quality Detection: It streamlines the process of identifying and rectifying data quality issues, ensuring the integrity of your datasets. 2. Accelerate Data Curation: Our platform expedites the curation of similar images and objects, facilitating data collection and balancing. 3. Catalog Vast Datasets: With its flexibility, the platform allows you to efficiently index and catalogue extensive datasets. 4. Seamless CI/CD Integration: Tenyks effortlessly integrates with your CI/CD pipelines, reducing the risk of regressions and enhancing your development workflow. 5. Security & Scalability: Securely orchestrated in the cloud to foster seamless cross-team collaboration and scale to millions of images & hundred of millions of objects. The founders developed the technology (the result of 9 top-tier publications and a patented invention) during their PhD research in Safe & Explainable AI for Computer Vision.

Mirror Emoji Keyboard by Mirror AI is an app that takes a photo of your face and creates you a set of personalized emoji. You get hundreds of them ready to be shared on messengers or social networks.

Dream3D builds generative models to simulate and emulate worlds, real and imagined.

Eventual is a data warehouse for ML/AI. We are building an integrated development experience for data scientists and engineers to build ML/AI applications which query and process multimodal data (images, video, audio and 3D scans). Daft (https://www.getdaft.io) is our open-sourced distributed data query engine. It has a Python Dataframe API and is built in Rust, providing both ease of use and performance for use-cases such as ML data engineering, training data ingestion and general data analytics. We are funded by investors such as Caffeinated Capital, Array.vc and top angels in the valley from Databricks, Meta and Lyft. Our team has deep expertise in high performance computing, big data technologies, cloud infrastructure and machine learning.

Focal Systems is on a mission to lower the cost of living for all mankind by automating and optimizing Brick and Mortar Retail with the latest advancements in AI. Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail automation solutions. By digitizing store shelves hourly and unleashing FocalOS, retailers unlock huge operational efficiencies, optimized merchandising, and streamlined supply chains which deliver impactful financial results. Focal is transforming retail by empowering store management to make automated, data-driven decisions. We are the operating system of retail.

We provide a simple API for creating, storing, versioning, and collaborating on multi-modal AI datasets of any size. With Activeloop's open-core stack, you can rapidly transform and stream data while training models at scale. Deep Lake powers foundational model training by acting as a vector database with significant benefits, such as (1) the ability to use multi-modal datasets to fine-tune your own LLM models, (2) storing both the embeddings and the original data with automatic version control, so no embedding re-computation is needed (3) truly serverless service with no vendor lock-in. How cool is that? GitHub loves us - we're one of the fastest-growing libraries there, and we're used by little-known companies like Google, Waymo, and Intel. No big deal. Our founding team hails from places like Princeton, Stanford, Google, and Tesla, and we're backed by Y Combinator & other Silicon Valley heavyweights. Activeloop is hiring, and we want you! Check out our open roles on our YC page and join the fun. 10-min demo: https://activeloop.wistia.com/medias/aibvo0dst2 Whitepaper: https://www.deeplake.ai/whitepaper

[Segments.ai](http://segments.ai/) is helping robotics and automotive companies label their multi-sensor data for AI training and validation. Our platform enables customers to efficiently annotate their point cloud and image data, accelerating their path to autonomy. We're a fast-growing, remote-first YC startup with a lean team and healthy runway. [Segments.ai](http://segments.ai/) is used by large organizations as well as innovative startups building the next generation of autonomous drones, delivery robots, self-driving cars, and more.

Photoroom provides photo editing software powerful enough to create outstanding images yet simple enough to be used without any training. We leverage deep learning to translate pixels into objects, drastically simplifying non-creative tasks such as removing backgrounds from images. Our mission: enable entrepreneurs and small businesses to compose images that stand out.

Aura Vision is like Google Analytics for physical stores. We help retailers make more sales by using their existing security cameras and our plug & play AI to better measure their customers and stores.

Scanbase makes it easy for medical companies to convert photos of rapid diagnostic tests into results. We do this by providing a simple API that any medical company can access.

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.

Taiv puts TVs on autopilot, automatically switching between cable, our own streaming channels, digital signage, and trivia. Our proprietary AI model analyzes the live video feed and intelligently switches sources during commercial breaks, show changes, or based on the time of day, to show the best possible content & ads for any environment. We offer this for free to venues and make money by selling ads, which we rev-share back with the venue, turning their TVs from a cost center to a profit center.

Mach9 is at the forefront of leveraging advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques to transform geospatial data into actionable insights for urban development and infrastructure management. Our cutting-edge technology automates the detection and analysis of key urban features, aiding in the planning and maintenance of transportation networks.

Rex.fit (formerly BabylonAI) is an AI fitness and nutrition coach. We use computer vision and AI to create interactive gamified workouts (sign up and try at https://www.rex.fit). We also offer a nutrition chatbot that simplifies food logging through natural language processing, making it as easy as texting a friend to track your dietary intake (try it out on telegram http://t.me/rex_nutribot).

LightTwist is your virtual studio in the cloud. Record and stream video in a customizable virtual studio that you control from your browser.

SnapCalorie is the world’s first app where you can take a photo of ANY meal and get an accurate calorie count. It takes seconds to use and is more accurate than a trained nutritionist. The team previously co-founded Google Lens, Cloud Vision API, and published a CVPR paper demonstrating the first algorithm to outperform a professional nutritionist at calorie counting.

Nuanced detects AI fraud, deepfakes, and misinformation. We have created the most accurate AI-generated image detection technology that exists today. We train our proprietary models continuously to keep up with new generative AI technologies as they emerge.

Zensors will convert every camera in your building into an AI powered supersensor. The AI platform does this by connecting to your existing cameras and can watches a space to track multiple workflows around capacity management, staffing, cleaning, customer experience and business asset tracking. The AI learns activity patterns to streamline facilities management or business processes and provides real time anomaly alerts, forecasts and rich data analytics.

we're building a foundational model to create, modify, and understand humans in video. we're starting by learning specific behaviors and building specialized generative computer vision models. the first api we released is a zero-shot state-of-the-art lipsync model our customers use it to animate anyone in any video to say (or sing) anything you want in any language.

Kino automatically organizes footage to make video editing faster and more enjoyable. Kino saves hours every day for all types of video creation, from Youtube content to Hollywood blockbusters. Check out our demo! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwon6fWvmco Join the beta at trykino.com/beta

EdgeTrace makes video data easily accessible and actionable for critical industries. We provide a platform and API for advanced video capabilities, such as semantic search, automated annotations & analytics.

The rise of Robotic Process Automation offered a promise that any business user can build automations. We were skeptical about that and decided to talk to users of platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, and Blueprism, all of them low-code. Talking to users, we discovered that unique automations incorporating exclusive company processes and intelligence that have the potential to transform the business must be implemented by tech teams. It's not about mimicking employees performing isolated tasks. It's about designing a new workflow, integrated with the company's technological stack and systems. There are just 100.000 RPA skilled users compared to 22M developers globally that can become RPA coders on Day 1 with BotCity. We believe that all automation efforts in a single platform is more efficient. We started delivering the best RPA experience for tech teams, but we envision creating the perfect place to also manage crawlers, integrations, scrappers, data operations. Every company automation in a single place. As companies are becoming tech first and automation will be a basic KPI, we are building to be the all-in-one automation ops management.

Cerrion helps manufacturers automatically detect, understand and eliminate problems on their production lines using video-based Computer Vision. Our AI leverages standard CCTV cameras and learns how a manufacturing process looks like when things are going well and can automatically detect and track problems in real-time. For example, one of our customers, a Pepsi supplier producing 500 bottles per minute now automatically detects and reacts to a fallen bottle before it starts blocking their production line.

Apply Design helps homebuyer reimagine their new home using AI. We provide homebuyers access to a website that showcases their next home images augmented with hundreds of photorealistic interior designs, all size-accurate and curated by professional designers. These designs are created using real furniture from top brands. We help homebuyers see the potential of their next home and turn that into a reality. For example, when a young married couple with a baby visits the website we host, instead of seeing a dull property listing on Zillow with empty pictures or old furniture, the family sees realistic and personalized virtual interior designs – such as a home office and a baby room – which we automatically generate for them. They can then play with those designs and see how that home fits their needs and tastes and buy those furniture directly from Apply Design. This is a $20B market opportunity, given the 50M properties sold or rented annually in North America and Europe alone.

CrowdAI equips enterprises of all sizes with the power of deep learning and the approachability and speed of no-code software. Our easy-to-master platform allows users of all technical abilities, from business operators to data scientists, to power real-time decisions from their visual world. Recognizing data as the new code, CrowdAI is the only vision AI platform to truly provide organizations with the infrastructure for the entire AI-lifecycle, empowering you to label data systematically, train models efficiently, scale models iteratively, and power decisions continuously.

The future for autonomous industrial drones is in sight - Enabling safer drone operation through intelligent collision avoidance. We are a Y Combinator and Silicon Valley investor company with a team from NASA, Boeing and PhDs in computer vision. Read more at: https://tinyurl.com/y7tm4zr8 Website: www.IrisOnBoard.com

ClipDrop is an app that turns regular mobile photos into professional product visuals. Thanks to companies like Poshmark, Etsy and Ebay, there are now over 25M sellers who need great visuals for their shops but most of them don’t have access to a professional photographer or a design team. We replace all of this with our app available on mobile and desktop. We’re a team of former Google, Facebook employees and Machine learning PhD’s and academic Professors. We believe that machine learning will bring professional photography and design to millions of businesses for a fraction of the cost.

Flutter is recreating the magic of seeing someone in real-life for the first time, on your phone. Flutter lets you record short, ephemeral videos to express yourself and capture the attention of potential matches nearby. Users browse through nearby videos and, just like Tinder, like or pass on each one before moving on to the next. Here’s the catch: to actually match with someone, you have to be on the app at the same time and look into each other’s eyes for 15 seconds to see if there’s a spark. We help users play this game by sending push notifications when people they like are online. Video is so powerful. We've seen this with YouTube, Snapchat, Meerkat. And 15 seconds of live, two-way video can tell you so much more about a person than hand-picked photos and bios.

GazeHawk provides low-cost eye tracking technology for use in usability studies and ad evaluation. Our proprietary technology allows us to use ordinary webcams to run studies. This enables in-home eye tracking, as well as fast, affordable large-scale studies.http://www.gazehawk.com/

We help teams that may or may not have machine learning expertise quickly turn their data into deployed computer vision models. Example applications include security camera monitoring, automating data entry, interpreting web scraped images, validated user photo inputs, augmented reality and mobile product scanning. If you have visual or scanned data that you wish your software could interpret at scale, we can turn around a first proof of concept in under a week. Reach out and see how computer vision can change your business.

Allure Systems was Acquired by Farfetch (NASDAQ: FTCH) in Dec 2021. AllureSystems uses generative A.I. to create stunning apparel images for eCommerce. Allure works with leading fashion retailers to improve conversion rates by creating images that resonate with their clients in a scalable and cost-effective way. With a single photo of clothing, a brand can produce unlimited images, on any model, instantly. The ability to show styles on models in every size increases conversion rates and wow the customers. Without needing models or photographers on-site, brands can produce images for their product page at scale.