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Groundlight

Seattle, US · Founded 2021 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 9 known investors

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Groundlight builds machine learning and computer vision technology to enable robotics applications. The company serves developers and robotics teams building industrial and real-world automation systems.

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Founders & leadership

Groundlight was founded in 2021 by Avi and Leo Dirac.

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Leo DiracinCTO and Co-FounderLeo Dirac has spent over a decade in machine learning infrastructure and research, including many years at Amazon building ML systems and infrastructure. He has expertise in deep learning, AutoML, neural network training, computer vision, and reinforcement learning.

Investors · 9

Madrona Venture GroupSeattle · $2M – $10M
Essence Venture CapitalreportedSeattle · $10K – $10Mvia Timothy Chen · inferred
Founders' Co-opreportedSeattle · $10K – $250K
Greycroft PartnersreportedNew York

Also in the syndicate · 5

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Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$20M disclosed across 2 rounds · 2023

Source: company announcements and press reports — follow each round's link for the claim.

Competitors · 10

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Encord46 shared keywordsEncord provides a data platform for developing and deploying multimodal AI systems, serving AI development teams at scale across training and production environments.
Ultralytics46 shared keywordsUltralytics develops YOLO, an open-source real-time object detection and computer vision platform used across industries for visual AI tasks including surveillance, quality control, robotics, and autonomous systems. The platform serves enterprises, researchers, and developers across construction, manufacturing, retail, agriculture, energy, healthcare, and transportation sectors.
Roboflow46 shared keywordsRoboflow provides tools for developers to build and deploy computer vision applications, including image annotation, model benchmarking, and dataset management. The platform serves software engineers and enterprises who need to create vision-based applications.
Viso43 shared keywordsViso.ai offers a computer vision platform with two products: Visonow, a tool to build vision agents from a text prompt and video, and Visosuite, an enterprise operating system to connect cameras across sites and run governed, agentic vision workflows at scale. It serves enterprises across multiple industries for use cases like monitoring, inspection, and safety alerting.
Netezza42 shared keywordsIBM is a global technology company whose business spans enterprise software (including Red Hat, HashiCorp, and Confluent), IT infrastructure such as mainframes, servers, and storage, and IT consulting services. The company is also investing heavily in quantum computing and AI-based enterprise offerings, including its Lightwell open-source software security clearinghouse and the Anderon quantum wafer foundry.
DataCamp39 shared keywordsDataCamp is a learning platform for teams that teaches data and AI skills through hands-on coursework accessible via web browser and mobile app. It serves enterprise customers and development teams seeking to build technical capabilities.
Hugging Face38 shared keywordsHugging Face is a collaboration platform that hosts and provides access to machine learning models, datasets, and applications. It offers both open-source tools for the ML community and paid compute and enterprise solutions for teams building AI applications.
NVIDIA35 shared keywordsNVIDIA designs GPUs, AI computing hardware, and software platforms for AI development, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and robotics, serving developers, researchers, and enterprises. Its offerings include AI models, power architecture for AI factories, and compute infrastructure used across industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and automotive.
Lightly25 shared keywordsLightly provides tools for AI teams to manage and curate training data more efficiently. The company focuses on data-centric approaches to improve machine learning model quality.
OpenAI25 shared keywordsOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company focused on developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) with emphasis on safety and beneficial outcomes for humanity.

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In the news

Groundlight raises $10M to make image labeling faster, more accessible - Puget Sound Business Journalbizjournals.com · Apr 2023Groundlight Raises $10 Million in Seed Roundthesaasnews.com · Apr 2023Groundlight raises $10M for natural language powered computer vision - The Robot Reporttherobotreport.com · Apr 2023Groundlight emerges from stealth with $10M seed round to help businesses use computer vision | VentureBeatventurebeat.com · Apr 2023Groundlight Raises $10M in Fundingfinsmes.com · Apr 2023

Frequently asked questions

What does Groundlight do?
Groundlight builds machine learning and computer vision technology to enable robotics applications. The company serves developers and robotics teams building industrial and real-world automation systems.
Who founded Groundlight?
Groundlight was founded by Avi, Leo Dirac in 2021.
Who are Groundlight's investors?
Groundlight's investors include Madrona Venture Group, Essence Venture Capital, Founders' Co-op, Greycroft Partners.
How much funding has Groundlight raised?
Groundlight has disclosed $20M raised across 2 rounds.
Where is Groundlight headquartered?
Groundlight is headquartered in Seattle, US.