# CARVI

> CARVI turns a windshield camera into both a driving coach and a data witness. Its computer-vision system warns about forward collisions and lane departures, records contextual driving behavior, and feeds fleet, claims and insurance tools designed to distinguish genuinely safe driving from merely low mileage.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, United States
- **Founders:** Kevin Eunsu Lee (Founder and CEO)
- **Products:** CARVI consumer driving coach, CARVI T, CARVI M and CARVI M-WiFi, Driving Behavior Contextual Data Platform, Accident Reconstruction and automated FNOL
- **Notable:** Raised more than $105,000 from an early crowdfunding campaign in 2015., Demonstrated a joint CARVI-KT-Samsung safe-driving system at CES 2016., Deployed on nearly 60,000 vehicles worldwide by 2018, according to WIRED.

## Products & services

- **CARVI consumer driving coach** — A windshield-mounted camera and smartphone app offering forward-collision and lane-departure warnings plus trip reports.
- **CARVI T** — A compact B2B telematics device using computer vision, communications and sensors to collect contextual driving data and issue safety warnings.
- **CARVI M and CARVI M-WiFi** — Consumer-oriented mobile and Wi-Fi packages for vision-based driving assistance and behavior monitoring.
- **Driving Behavior Contextual Data Platform** — Cloud software for driver scoring, fleet monitoring, behavior reports and risk categorization.
- **Accident Reconstruction and automated FNOL** — Tools that detect an impact, send location and video promptly, reconstruct vehicle paths and support digital damage assessment.
- **CARVI Autopilot** — An aftermarket road-safety package with forward-collision warning, lane-departure warning, video and event recording.

## Achievements

- Raised more than $105,000 from an early crowdfunding campaign in 2015.
- Demonstrated a joint CARVI-KT-Samsung safe-driving system at CES 2016.
- Deployed on nearly 60,000 vehicles worldwide by 2018, according to WIRED.
- Secured a partnership with HERE Technologies for map-enhanced driver context in 2019.
- Built a continuing patent portfolio covering curved-lane detection, median-strip collision risk and sequential-image vehicle-path reconstruction.

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — A US patent assigned to CARVI covering sequential-image analysis and vehicle-path restoration was granted.
- **2025-05** — A US patent for restoring subject-vehicle and lead-vehicle paths from sequential images was granted.
- **2024-07** — Korean company tracking records list CARVI participating in public R&D related to safe driving, motorcycles and AI recognition.
- **2023-04** — CARVI received a US patent for recognizing median strips and predicting collision risk from images.
- **2022-06** — Founder Kevin Eunsu Lee publicly described CARVI's push toward behavior-based insurance and the regulatory obstacles to domestic commercialization.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getcarvi.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/carvi-inc./
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/getcarvi
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetCarvi/

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Last updated: 2026-09-28