# OnDeck AI

> OnDeck AI is a Vancouver-based Y Combinator (S25) company building Perception-0, a vision model that lets organizations find any object, behavior, or event in video footage using plain language - without collecting training data or building a custom computer-vision pipeline. Started as a fisheries-monitoring project, it now serves defense agencies, robotics teams, and security operators, including a pilot with Singapore's Ministry of Defence.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- **Founders:** Alexander Dungate (CEO & Co-Founder), Sepand Dyanatkar (CTO & Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** 6-7
- **Products:** Perception-0, Video search and reporting platform
- **Notable:** Perception-0 scores 81.2% on LVBench, reported ahead of Gemini and other frontier VLMs at long-video understanding, Grew from $0 to six-figure ARR since May 2025, Secured a $160K pilot with Singapore's Ministry of Defence

## Products & services

- **Perception-0** — A vision model that identifies objects, behaviors, and events in any footage without training data or a custom model. Users search in natural language, get structured understanding of complex event sequences, and generate reports. Scores 81.2% on the LVBench long-video benchmark.
- **Video search and reporting platform** — Search across large footage datasets, understand qualitative behaviors, generate reports, and build customizable agentic workflows adapted to a customer's specific footage and needs.

## Achievements

- Perception-0 scores 81.2% on LVBench, reported ahead of Gemini and other frontier VLMs at long-video understanding
- Grew from $0 to six-figure ARR since May 2025
- Secured a $160K pilot with Singapore's Ministry of Defence
- Published a NeurIPS workshop paper showing VLM methods outperform traditional computer vision on niche tasks
- Backed by Y Combinator, National Geographic, and Eric Schmidt's family foundation
- Founder Alexander Dungate named a National Geographic Explorer
- SOC 2 compliant

## Latest updates

- **2025-08** — Joined Y Combinator's Summer 2025 batch and rebranded from OnDeck Fisheries AI to OnDeck AI as it expanded beyond fisheries.
- **2025-08** — Reported reaching six-figure ARR and a $160K Singapore MINDEF pilot within months of launch.
- **2026** — Positioned Perception-0 as 'the world's most powerful vision model,' citing an 81.2% LVBench score.

## Links

- Website: https://ondeckai.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ondeckai/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/OnDeckAI

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Last updated: 2026-07-30