# Matroid

> Matroid is a Palo Alto computer vision company that lets anyone build, train, and deploy custom object detectors without writing code. Founded in 2016 by Stanford professor and former Databricks founding-team member Reza Zadeh, its platform turns ordinary camera feeds into searchable, alert-generating systems that spot objects, people, defects, events, and safety violations in real time, across cloud, on-premise, and edge deployments. Matroid is used across manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, electronics, and video security to automate quality inspection and monitoring.

- **Founded:** 2016
- **Headquarters:** Palo Alto, California, United States
- **Founders:** Reza Zadeh (Founder & CEO; Adjunct Professor at Stanford)
- **Team size:** ~32 employees (approximate)
- **Products:** Matroid Detectors, Detector Studio (creation tools), Pre-made detectors, Flexible deployment
- **Notable:** Gartner 'Cool Vendor' in AI Core Technologies (2019), Best Paper Award at the KDD conference (2016), Developed a glaucoma detection model with a 96% F1 score using 3D CNNs

## Products & services

- **Matroid Detectors** — No-code computer vision models that detect objects, people, events, emotions, actions and defects in images and video, with real-time alerts and the ability to search past footage.
- **Detector Studio (creation tools)** — Drag-and-drop, camera-agnostic tooling that lets domain experts train custom detectors without writing code or hiring a data science team.
- **Pre-made detectors** — A library of ready-to-use detectors for common visual inspection, safety, and monitoring tasks.
- **Flexible deployment** — Cloud, on-premise, and embedded/edge deployment options for real-time video analytics and visual inspection automation.

## Achievements

- Gartner 'Cool Vendor' in AI Core Technologies (2019)
- Best Paper Award at the KDD conference (2016)
- Developed a glaucoma detection model with a 96% F1 score using 3D CNNs
- Created the FusionNet 3D neural network that topped the Princeton ModelNet competition
- Founder co-authored the book 'TensorFlow for Deep Learning'
- Hosts the annual Scaled Machine Learning Conference

## Latest updates

- **2020-10** — Closed $20M Series B led by Energize Ventures to expand into manufacturing and industrial IoT, bringing total funding to $33.5M.
- **2020-01** — Partnered with Eagle Eye Networks to bring Matroid's computer vision to Cloud VMS customers.

## Links

- Website: https://matroid.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/matroid
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/matroid
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@matroidinc
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/matroid

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