# ParallelDots

> ParallelDots builds retail computer-vision software for consumer-goods manufacturers and retailers. Its flagship ShelfWatch analyzes shelf images to measure availability, shelf space, pricing and merchandising compliance, then returns guidance to field teams. The US-headquartered business has a major development center in India and serves international markets.

- **Founded:** 2017
- **Headquarters:** Seattle, United States
- **Founders:** Angam Parashar (Co-Founder & CEO), Ankit Narayan Singh (Co-Founder & CTO), Muktabh Mayank Srivastava (Co-Founder & Chief Data Scientist)
- **Products:** ShelfWatch, Saarthi, SmartGaze, ShelfWatch Camera and ShelfRadar, ShelfGPT
- **Notable:** ShelfWatch launched in 2018., Won the 2019 Invest India / SoftBank Tech4Future Challenge, according to its company timeline., Named a NASSCOM Emerge50 winner in retail technology in 2020.

## Products & services

- **ShelfWatch** — Retail image recognition, mobile capture, configurable shelf KPIs, dashboards and corrective feedback for sales and merchandising teams.
- **Saarthi** — No-code training suite for onboarding new or unknown SKUs; the company advertises detection within 48 hours.
- **SmartGaze** — Automated gaze coding for physical eye-tracking research, with heatmaps, areas of interest, attention metrics and exports.
- **ShelfWatch Camera and ShelfRadar** — Fixed cameras capture shelf images at intervals; the companion app delivers issue alerts and lets staff report whether they fixed them.
- **ShelfGPT** — Retail AI prototyping capability promoted on the company website for building product-recognition models from shelf images.

## Achievements

- ShelfWatch launched in 2018.
- Won the 2019 Invest India / SoftBank Tech4Future Challenge, according to its company timeline.
- Named a NASSCOM Emerge50 winner in retail technology in 2020.
- BTV reported deployments in more than 25 countries and 500,000 outlets in 2023.
- Current about page reports 200+ team members, 50+ markets and 15M+ monthly images.
- Reports 14+ research papers and patent filings on its about page.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — A testimonial on the current company homepage says Unilever Ghana expanded its partnership to an international market by the end of Q1 2026; this is a customer statement published by ParallelDots.
- **2025-01** — In a BTV interview, Parashar reported 40-country deployment and a 120-person full-time team, and described plans for augmented reality, on-device processing and generative AI.
- **2024-09** — Company social announcement described a Google Cloud partnership for shelf monitoring.

## Links

- Website: https://www.paralleldots.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paralleldots/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ParallelDots
- GitHub: https://github.com/ParallelDots
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/paralleldots/

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Last updated: 2026-10-15