# AiFi Inc.

> AiFi is a San Francisco-based enterprise AI company that turns camera feeds into a real-time, queryable model of physical spaces. Best known for powering checkout-free stores, its spatial-intelligence platform tracks anonymized people, products and activity to help retailers, stadiums, travel hubs, universities and other operators reduce queues and shrink, improve layouts and understand what is happening on the floor. AiFi combines computer vision, edge and cloud computing, analytics and integrations with payment, POS, ERP and identity systems, selling deployments and an ongoing platform relationship to businesses rather than a consumer app.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Steve Gu (Co-founder and former CEO), Ying Zheng (Co-founder), João Diogo Falcão (Technical co-founder and CEO)
- **Team size:** 100+ employees; the supplied company dataset estimates 140, while LinkedIn lists a 51-200 employee range.
- **Products:** Spatial Intelligence Platform, eddie, Autonomous Checkout, AiFi Refresh, AiFi Build
- **Notable:** Passed 100 autonomous stores worldwide in February 2023 and reported more than 300 by September 2025., Ranked No. 326 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with reported three-year revenue growth of 1,208 percent, its third appearance on the list., Reported serving more than 9 million shoppers and processing 7.1 million orders by August 2025.

## Products & services

- **Spatial Intelligence Platform** — A camera-led system that creates a real-time 3D digital twin of people, objects and activity, then exposes alerts, labeled evidence, analytics and APIs for operators.
- **eddie** — The Event Driven Data Interpretation Engine at the center of AiFi's Azure-based platform, turning physical activity into structured, queryable data.
- **Autonomous Checkout** — Computer-vision and optional RFID-based shopping in which customers authenticate, take products and leave while the system builds the basket and processes payment.
- **AiFi Refresh** — A retrofit package for adding autonomous checkout to an existing store with limited disruption and flexible entry options.
- **AiFi Build** — A custom deployment for new, branded autonomous stores in varied sizes and layouts.
- **AiFi To-Go** — A portable, modular autonomous store format for locations that may not support a conventional shop footprint.

## Achievements

- Passed 100 autonomous stores worldwide in February 2023 and reported more than 300 by September 2025.
- Ranked No. 326 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 with reported three-year revenue growth of 1,208 percent, its third appearance on the list.
- Reported serving more than 9 million shoppers and processing 7.1 million orders by August 2025.
- Expanded across more than 20 sports stadiums and reported 74 stadium stores by the end of 2024.
- Built the checkout system used at the LA Clippers' Intuit Dome, including entry flows designed to remove the usual tap-or-scan bottleneck.
- Powered Europe's first fully frictionless autonomous market integrated with a self-serve draught system at Co-op Live in 2026.
- Won an NVIDIA Inception AI award in 2018 as an enterprise AI startup.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Microsoft published a customer story detailing AiFi's Azure-based eddie engine, 60+ million monthly human interactions and reported customer outcomes in shrink, throughput and insight speed.
- **2026-03** — Co-op Live opened a four-gate autonomous market in Manchester that combines AiFi checkout with Boxbar Tech self-serve draught beverages.
- **2026-02** — AiFi highlighted an Orlando International Airport contactless-corridor pilot with Paravision and Embross, extending its spatial layer into identity and passenger flow.
- **2025-09** — Technical co-founder and CTO João Diogo Falcão became CEO; outgoing CEO Steve Carlin returned to TransLink Capital as a venture partner and remained an adviser.
- **2025-08** — AiFi ranked No. 326 on the Inc. 5000 after reporting 1,208 percent three-year revenue growth.
- **2025-05** — AiFi and Lori's Gifts launched checkout-free hospital gift shops designed for around-the-clock access.
- **2025-02** — AiFi, Verizon and the Atlanta Hawks opened Hawks Express at State Farm Arena using 5G Edge and autonomous checkout.

## Links

- Website: https://aifi.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aifi-inc
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/aifiinc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AiFiTechnology
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aifiinc/
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/AiFiInc/

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Last updated: 2026-08-10