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🖼️ Give your software the sense of sight.
Roboflow has raised $62.0M across 3 funding rounds.
Key people at Roboflow.
Roboflow was founded in 2019 by Joseph Nelson (Founder) and Brad Dwyer (Founder).
Roboflow has raised $62.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
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
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Key people at Roboflow.
Roboflow is a leading end-to-end computer vision platform that empowers developers and enterprises to build, train, and deploy custom computer vision models quickly and at scale. Its mission is to democratize computer vision by simplifying the entire workflow—from dataset creation and annotation to model training and deployment—making visual AI accessible to over one million developers, including engineers at more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. Roboflow’s platform supports real-time inference, edge and cloud deployment, and offers a low-code visual pipeline builder, enabling users to create complex vision applications without deep infrastructure expertise. This accelerates innovation across industries by allowing software to "see" and interpret the physical world, solving critical business problems efficiently[1][2][4][5].
Founded in 2020 by Brad Dwyer and Joseph (last name not specified), Roboflow emerged from the founders’ own challenges while building an augmented reality game, which highlighted the difficulty of image annotation and model benchmarking. This experience inspired them to create a platform that automates and streamlines the computer vision lifecycle. Early traction included acceptance into Y Combinator’s Summer 2020 accelerator and rapid adoption by a broad developer base. The company has since evolved into a comprehensive SaaS platform that integrates cutting-edge research, such as the Segment Anything Model (SAM), and supports MLOps principles tailored for vision AI, including dataset and model versioning, automated training, and deployment monitoring[4][5].
Roboflow rides the wave of increasing demand for AI-powered computer vision solutions that enable software to interpret and interact with the physical world. The timing is critical as industries seek to automate visual inspection, quality control, infrastructure monitoring, and consumer-facing applications. Market forces such as the proliferation of edge computing, advances in deep learning, and the need for scalable AI deployment favor Roboflow’s platform. By lowering the barrier to entry for vision AI, Roboflow accelerates innovation across sectors like manufacturing, automotive, healthcare, and infrastructure, influencing the broader ecosystem by enabling developers and enterprises to rapidly prototype and scale vision applications[1][3][5][7].
Looking ahead, Roboflow is poised to deepen its impact by continuing to integrate foundational AI research and expanding its low-code capabilities, making computer vision even more accessible. Trends such as the rise of edge AI, increased demand for real-time analytics, and the convergence of vision AI with other modalities (e.g., language models) will shape its evolution. Roboflow’s influence is likely to grow as it empowers more organizations to embed vision intelligence into their products and operations, effectively giving software the "sense of sight" to transform how machines perceive and interact with the world[1][5][6].
Roboflow has raised $62.0M across 3 funding rounds. Most recently, it raised $40.0M Series B in November 2024.
Roboflow was founded in 2019 by Joseph Nelson (Founder) and Brad Dwyer (Founder).
Roboflow has raised $62.0M in total across 3 funding rounds.
Roboflow's investors include Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Atomico, Otherwise Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Charlie Cheever, Johnny Boufarhat, Manik Gupta, Nico Rosberg, Ott Kaukver, Thomas Dohmke.
