Y Combinator

Y Combinator is a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2005. It has pioneered a new funding model for early-stage startups by investing a modest amount of capital, typically around $150,000, in a large number of companies twice a year. Over a three-month program, Y Combinator collaborates closely with these startups to prepare them for investor pitches and enhance their business strategies. Each funding cycle concludes with Demo Day, where startups present to an exclusive audience of investors. Y Combinator focuses on various sectors, including business software, education, healthcare, and financial technology, among others. In addition to initial funding, it offers ongoing support through its extensive alumni network. Since its inception, Y Combinator has funded over 630 startups, contributing significantly to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Silicon Valley and beyond.

Gustaf Alstromer

Group Partner

Matt Bogrand

Associate, YC Continuity Fund

Timothy Brady

Partner

Craig R. Cannon

Director of Marketing

Adora Cheung

Partner

Nic Dardenne

Principal

Aaron Epstein

Group Partner

Brad Flora

Group Partner

Jared Friedman

Managing Director, Software and Group Partner

Aaron Harris

Partner

Carolynn Levy

Partner

Bradford (Brad) Lightcap

Associate, YC Continuity

Kat Manalac

Managing Partner

Eric Migicovsky

Partner

Kirsty Nathoo

Partner

Verena Prescher

Director of Finance

Geoff Ralston

president

Ali Rowghani

Managing Partner

Arnav Sahu

Principal

Michael Seibel

Managing Director

Harj Taggar

Partner

Past deals in Computer Vision

Depict

Series A in 2022
Depict.ai develops a product recommendation engine aimed at enhancing the quality of product suggestions for e-commerce stores. By providing advanced recommendation capabilities similar to those found on major platforms, the company enables smaller businesses to compete effectively against larger competitors. The software is designed to increase overall revenue for e-commerce sites without requiring extensive sales data, thereby democratizing access to high-quality recommendations. Through its innovative approach, Depict.ai seeks to empower smaller players in the e-commerce market, allowing them to improve customer engagement and drive sales.

KorrAI

Seed Round in 2022
Korrai Technologies Ltd. is a digital technology company based in Delta, Canada, founded in 2020. It specializes in developing artificial intelligence software tailored for the natural resources and environmental sectors. The company's software interprets air and lidar imagery to provide contextual insights, enabling precision mapping for applications in mining and environmental monitoring. Its AI tools generate pre-trained footprint features and learner solutions, facilitating assessments in various areas such as quarries, mines, waterbodies, forestry, and infrastructure. Korrai's platform also offers satellite-based ground motion monitoring, allowing clients to detect minute changes in the earth's surface and create accurate risk maps. This technology aids businesses in making informed decisions regarding environmental impacts and resource management, addressing challenges related to climate change and land use.

MarqVision

Seed Round in 2021
MarqVision is a cutting-edge brand protection platform that allows companies to automatically detect and remove counterfeits sold online.

Zensors

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Zensors, Inc. is a company that specializes in the development of artificial intelligence-powered visual sensors for various environments, including cafés, cities, stadiums, factories, offices, and retailers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional office in Pittsburgh, the company offers a real-time analytics platform and customizable dashboards. Its advanced sensors utilize computer vision technologies and machine learning to monitor and analyze activities in real time, enabling the creation of smart and responsive spaces. By leveraging existing hardware, Zensors provides users with actionable insights and spatial intelligence while preserving visitor anonymity. This approach allows businesses to optimize customer interactions and uncover monetization opportunities, effectively replacing multiple Internet of Things (IoT) sensors with a single, efficient solution.

Potion

Pre Seed Round in 2021
AI-Based Beauty Product Development Company

Revery AI

Seed Round in 2021
Founded by 3 Computer Vision Phds at UIUC, Revery AI creates a scalable method to visualize garments on people. The technology powers a virtual dressing room where shoppers can mix & match outfits and visualize them on any model instantly online.

Centaur Labs

Series A in 2021
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Synapsica Healthcare Inc.

Series A in 2021
Synapsica is a health tech and teleradiology firm that provides AI-enabled automation of diagnostic radiology workflow and reporting. The company uses NLP, computer vision, and deep learning-based software products to assist diagnosis in X-Ray, CT, and MRI scans. Its machine learning automation allows for workflow management at Diagnostic Centers bringing efficiency to the entire process of stakeholders' coordination, disease interpretation, and report generation. Synapsica's goal is to improve the reporting efficiency in terms of quality, time, and cost.

Scale

Series E in 2021
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

CrowdAI

Series A in 2021
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

Quadrant Eye

Seed Round in 2021
QE is building remote eye exams. Our mission to is take all of eye care remote.

Inspector Cloud

Series A in 2021
At Inspector Cloud we build image recognition services for retail industry. Our award winning shelf image recognition solution is used by a number of world famous brands to redefine how merchandizing works. nspector Cloud ambitious goal is to set the industry standard for retail image recognition.

SBX Robotics

Pre Seed Round in 2021
SBX Robotics generates synthetic data that teaches robots to see. SBX Robotics is accelerating the design of intelligent robots through simulation, starting with computer vision models for industrial settings.

Biodock

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Biodock's cloud platform accelerates microscopy analysis, automating months of microscopy analysis and infrastructure to minutes with our end-to-end AI architecture. Scientists enjoy auto-scaling storage, GPU compute, and 30-50% more accurate analysis. We also have a data flywheel built into our product - we process millions of cells weekly for our free academic and enterprise customers, and we're building the largest image dataset for microscopy images, which gives us a competitive data advantage.

Segments.ai

Seed Round in 2021
Deep learning-fueled labeling technology for images and videos with a focus on instance and semantic segmentation with a mission to automate image labeling. Supporting predictive labeling and active learning workflows on large-scale datasets.

Cord

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Cord is building a data programming interface to label and manage your training data for AI applications.

Photoroom

Seed Round in 2020
PhotoRoom is a Paris-based company founded in 2019 that specializes in developing a photo editing application for iPhones and iPads. The app employs artificial intelligence and deep learning technology to enable users to create studio-quality product images rapidly and effortlessly. Users can remove and change backgrounds as well as showcase their products with just one click, making the app particularly beneficial for entrepreneurs and small businesses looking for affordable image editing solutions. By streamlining the image creation process, PhotoRoom helps users enhance their visual content quickly and effectively.

Depict

Seed Round in 2020
Depict.ai develops a product recommendation engine aimed at enhancing the quality of product suggestions for e-commerce stores. By providing advanced recommendation capabilities similar to those found on major platforms, the company enables smaller businesses to compete effectively against larger competitors. The software is designed to increase overall revenue for e-commerce sites without requiring extensive sales data, thereby democratizing access to high-quality recommendations. Through its innovative approach, Depict.ai seeks to empower smaller players in the e-commerce market, allowing them to improve customer engagement and drive sales.

Hellometer

Seed Round in 2020
Hellometer, Inc. is a technology company based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2020. It specializes in enhancing the operations of fast-food restaurants through an innovative surveillance system. This system utilizes AI to monitor video feeds from workplace cameras, enabling the generation of insightful operational recommendations. Key features include identifying areas of over and under staffing, predictive scheduling, bottleneck detection, and cross-site performance analysis, all aimed at reducing wait times and improving efficiency. Hellometer's approach ensures that it does not utilize facial recognition or biometric data, focusing instead on optimizing restaurant operations without infringing on employee privacy.

Roboflow

Seed Round in 2020
Roboflow, Inc. is a software-as-a-service company focused on enhancing computer vision capabilities for software engineers. Founded in 2019 and based in Des Moines, Iowa, Roboflow offers solutions such as Roboflow Organize, which assists developers in managing image datasets and annotations, and Roboflow Pro, designed to facilitate the deployment of computer vision applications using existing engineering resources. The company's tools streamline the creation and organization of datasets, including both image and video data, and employ pre-trained models and artificial intelligence to automate the annotation process. By providing features like dataset management, image transformations, and easy integration, Roboflow enables teams to build computer vision models more efficiently, improving accuracy and reducing common errors that can hinder model performance.

1910 Genetics

Seed Round in 2020
AI for new drug discovery

Synapsica Healthcare Inc.

Seed Round in 2020
Synapsica is a health tech and teleradiology firm that provides AI-enabled automation of diagnostic radiology workflow and reporting. The company uses NLP, computer vision, and deep learning-based software products to assist diagnosis in X-Ray, CT, and MRI scans. Its machine learning automation allows for workflow management at Diagnostic Centers bringing efficiency to the entire process of stakeholders' coordination, disease interpretation, and report generation. Synapsica's goal is to improve the reporting efficiency in terms of quality, time, and cost.

Zumo Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Zumo Labs develops artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer vision solutions to provide pre-labeled training data. It uses game engines and machine learning techniques to synthesize the data rather than collecting it from photos/videos of the real world and create data sets for computer vision models. Zumo Labs was founded in 2020 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Visual One

Seed Round in 2020
Visual One develops an analytics and object recognition software solution for security cameras. The company offers an artificial intelligence (AI) based platform, Visual One, which integrates with home security cameras to detect children and pets movement and events. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Orbiter

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Orbiter software builds machine learning models to analyze business metrics and detect abnormal changes automatically. Automated analytics help teams to move fast and accelerate issue resolution.

Caper

Series A in 2019
Caper is a company that develops an AI-powered shopping cart aimed at enhancing the grocery shopping experience. By integrating technologies such as image recognition and sensor fusion, Caper's smart cart allows shoppers to conveniently add items to their cart and self-checkout without the need for cashiers. This plug-and-play system captures images of items and scans barcodes, facilitating an automated checkout process. Caper's innovative approach seeks to transform physical retail by enabling existing grocery stores to adopt a kiosk-less shopping experience, thereby streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction.

Ramen VR

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Design and development of computer game software and virtual reality software. Games and online worlds have great potential in shaping how people behave, both positively, and negatively. We are designing and developing software that will allow us to create virtual societies that enable citizens of our virtual worlds to discover themselves. We believe that friendships, positive experiences, and behaviors that are built in VR, will spill over to reality, allowing users to become more fulfilled, happy, and confident individuals. Our vision is to create connected virtual worlds that empower people to be their best, most authentic selves.

1910 Genetics

Seed Round in 2019
AI for new drug discovery

Overview

Seed Round in 2019
Overview.ai provides real time fault detection that uses cameras and AI to monitor manufacturing robots, shutting them down if something goes wrong. Its smart camera automatically learns normal machine routines to detect any deviations, crashes or anomalies. Its system catches misalignments, breakage, and out-of-sequence behavior before significant damage occurs to product or machine.

Centaur Labs

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Our platform uses trained professionals to analyze medical images and videos, enabling our customers to build new technologies and treatments to detect and fight disease.

Maitian.ai

Seed Round in 2019
Maitian.ai is a computer vision powered autonoumous stores that makes the shopping experience even smoother. Maitian.ai's algorithm will choose the right products for different consumers over time. Maitian.ai is headquartered in Singapore.

Aura Vision

Pre Seed Round in 2019
Aura Vision Labs Ltd develops a video AI platform designed to enhance in-store analytics for retailers and brands. By utilizing existing security cameras, the platform transforms video feeds into actionable insights that inform critical retail decisions. It enables users to track customer journeys, analyzing how customers and employees navigate stores and interact with products, which helps identify factors influencing conversion rates. The platform also measures the impact of marketing campaigns over various locations and time periods, providing a comprehensive view of store performance. Established in 2017 and headquartered in London, with additional offices in San Francisco, Aura Vision's solutions cater to retail operations and shopping malls, ultimately aiming to improve the overall shopping experience.

Caper

Seed Round in 2019
Caper is a company that develops an AI-powered shopping cart aimed at enhancing the grocery shopping experience. By integrating technologies such as image recognition and sensor fusion, Caper's smart cart allows shoppers to conveniently add items to their cart and self-checkout without the need for cashiers. This plug-and-play system captures images of items and scans barcodes, facilitating an automated checkout process. Caper's innovative approach seeks to transform physical retail by enabling existing grocery stores to adopt a kiosk-less shopping experience, thereby streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction.

Optic

Seed Round in 2018
Optic operates as a programming assistant that automates routine programming for developers. The software reads existing code and even generated code that has been modified. Optic is headquartered in the United States.

Augmented Radar Imaging

Seed Round in 2018
Augmented Radar Imaging is building safety and autonomy-enabling next-generation radar systems. Augmented Radar Imaging delivers radar and advanced machine learning algorithms to power autonomous vehicles and warehouse robots.

Corvus Robotics

Seed Round in 2018
Corvus Robotics specializes in the development of indoor drones designed for warehouse inventory management. These drones facilitate a continuous cycle count, enabling real-time data collection and analytics for warehouses and manufacturing facilities. The accompanying software provides insights and performs audits to identify and address operational challenges. By streamlining the inventory process, Corvus Robotics helps businesses minimize the time required to identify and rectify discrepancies, thereby enhancing overall operational efficiency and supporting informed financial decision-making.

Scale

Series B in 2018
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Piccolo

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Piccolo Labs Inc. develops vision assistant technology. It combines cameras equipped with Wi-Fi, artificial intelligence and artificial vision that can identify people's movements and gestures. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Playment

Seed Round in 2017
Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for computer vision models at scale. They empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle, Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter how complex. They are helping companies and research institutions like Drive AI, Starsky Robotics, CYNGN, and UIUC focus on their core areas of development. Their platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by their human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality.

lvl5

Seed Round in 2017
lvl5 creates high-resolution maps for autonomous vehicles and robots using computer vision. lvl5 provides mapping and localization services to support both ADAS and full autonomy.

Scale

Series A in 2017
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Playment

Seed Round in 2017
Playment is a fully managed data labeling platform generating training data for computer vision models at scale. They empower companies in the Autonomous Vehicle, Drones, Mapping, and similar spaces with high precision annotation services - No matter how complex. They are helping companies and research institutions like Drive AI, Starsky Robotics, CYNGN, and UIUC focus on their core areas of development. Their platform is powered by a trained workforce of 300,000+ users and managed by their human intelligence experts who build your tasks and deliver results with assured quality.

Entry

Seed Round in 2017
XIX.AI, Inc. specializes in biometric identity solutions for web applications, focusing on enhancing user authentication while prioritizing privacy and security. Their flagship product, Entry, allows users to log into various web applications using facial recognition technology via standard web cameras on laptops and desktops. This innovative approach provides a streamlined user experience, eliminating the need for traditional passwords and multi-factor authentication methods. By leveraging biometric authentication, Entry effectively helps organizations mitigate risks associated with account takeover attacks, credential breaches, phishing, and password spraying. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, California, XIX.AI aims to redefine identity verification in the digital landscape.

Reduced Energy Microsystems

Seed Round in 2017
REM is a fabless semiconductor company bringing the full power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to embedded devices. They are advancing the state of embedded computing by combining breakthrough circuit technology, intelligent architecture design, and polished software tooling.

Iris Automation

Seed Round in 2016
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

CrowdAI

Seed Round in 2016
CrowdAI, Inc. is a company that specializes in providing an artificial intelligence-as-a-service platform, focusing on the analysis of imagery and video from various sources, including autonomous vehicles, satellites, and drones. Founded in 2016 and based in Mountain View, California, CrowdAI empowers users to create custom machine learning models tailored to their specific needs without requiring a data science background or coding skills. Its comprehensive platform simplifies the transition from raw data to actionable insights, allowing enterprises to efficiently deploy machine learning models in production environments. This capability enables users to leverage real-time data for informed operational decision-making, enhancing the effectiveness of their projects and applications.

Scale

Seed Round in 2016
Scale AI, Inc. is a data platform that specializes in providing high-quality training and validation data for artificial intelligence applications. Founded in 2016 and based in San Francisco, the company offers a range of annotation tools, including platforms for 3D sensor data, images, videos, text, and documents. Its products support various AI tasks such as content moderation, transcription, and data comparison, and are utilized across multiple sectors including autonomous vehicles, retail, conversational AI, and robotics. Scale AI's technology enables companies to streamline their machine learning processes, allowing teams to concentrate on developing innovative models rather than the labor-intensive task of data labeling. The company serves notable clients in the technology and transportation industries, enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of AI development.

Reduced Energy Microsystems

Seed Round in 2016
REM is a fabless semiconductor company bringing the full power of computer vision and artificial intelligence to embedded devices. They are advancing the state of embedded computing by combining breakthrough circuit technology, intelligent architecture design, and polished software tooling.

Caper

Seed Round in 2016
Caper is a company that develops an AI-powered shopping cart aimed at enhancing the grocery shopping experience. By integrating technologies such as image recognition and sensor fusion, Caper's smart cart allows shoppers to conveniently add items to their cart and self-checkout without the need for cashiers. This plug-and-play system captures images of items and scans barcodes, facilitating an automated checkout process. Caper's innovative approach seeks to transform physical retail by enabling existing grocery stores to adopt a kiosk-less shopping experience, thereby streamlining operations and improving customer satisfaction.

VOIQ

Seed Round in 2015
Our AI Voice suite empowers companies to use conversational VoiceBots on their website and over the phone channel to connect, qualify and engage their leads and customers through highly-personalized, human-like voice conversations.

Iris Automation

Pre Seed Round in 2015
Iris Automation Inc. develops collision avoidance systems for operating industrial drones. The company offers an artificial intelligence computer that blends real-time images and 3D maps to track incoming objects. Its onboard software tracks and avoids dynamic and static objects on the ground and in the air at short-range and long-range. The company’s system is built to process visual data in real-time holding the capability to see structures that suddenly appear, such as a plane, flock of birds, and another drone. It serves the avionics industry worldwide. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in San Francisco, California with an additional operation in Reno, Nevada.

Meta View

Series A in 2015
Meta View is an electronic company that provides augmented and virtual reality solutions for various businesses in the United States. It offers wearable devices that provide augmented and virtual reality experience and other gadgets based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Ben Sand, Meron Gribetz, and Raymond Lo founded Meta View in 2019. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

VizeraLabs

Seed Round in 2014
VizeraLabs' current project, Vizera, is a smart projection device that performs accurate projections on physical objects. The current primary application of this technology is fabric simulation for furniture stores. The Vizera Projector has the potential to assist both consumers and retailers in the fabric selection process.

vicarious

Series B in 2014
Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company focuses on developing general intelligence for robots by leveraging the computational principles of the human brain. Vicarious aims to tackle significant challenges in the field of AI, fostering a culture that values intellectual curiosity, collaboration, and passion among its team members.

Anybots

Seed Round in 2013
Anybots develops mobile telepresence systems that allow users to engage with people and environments as if they were physically present. Their robotic platform features a self-balancing, two-wheeled design that can be remotely controlled through a web browser from any location worldwide. This versatility enables the integration of various content payloads, including telepresence systems from established providers such as Cisco or Polycom, as well as mechanical arms or medical devices. By leveraging this technology, Anybots facilitates real-time interaction and communication, making it a valuable tool for diverse applications.

Meta View

Seed Round in 2013
Meta View is an electronic company that provides augmented and virtual reality solutions for various businesses in the United States. It offers wearable devices that provide augmented and virtual reality experience and other gadgets based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. Ben Sand, Meron Gribetz, and Raymond Lo founded Meta View in 2019. It has its headquarters in San Mateo in California.

Marft

Seed Round in 2012
Marft creates embeddable machine learning models for application developers.