# Roboflow

> Roboflow is a computer vision platform that gives developers and enterprises everything needed to go from raw images and video to production vision applications - dataset management, AI-assisted annotation, hosted training, low-code Workflows, and deployment to the cloud or the edge. Founded in 2019 by Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer, it is used by over a million developers and more than half of the Fortune 100, and maintains widely adopted open-source tools including Inference, supervision, Autodistill, and the state-of-the-art RF-DETR detection model.

- **Founded:** 2019
- **Headquarters:** Des Moines, Iowa, United States
- **Founders:** Joseph Nelson (Co-founder & CEO), Brad Dwyer (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~110 employees
- **Products:** Annotate, Train, Workflows, Deploy / Inference, Universe
- **Notable:** Used by over 1 million developers and more than 50% of the Fortune 100., Open-source tools downloaded over 1 million times in a recent 30-day period., RF-DETR became the first real-time object detection model to exceed 60 AP on the COCO benchmark; paper accepted to ICLR 2026.

## Products & services

- **Annotate** — AI-assisted image and video labeling to build high-quality training datasets faster.
- **Train** — Hosted model training infrastructure with GPU access for object detection, classification, segmentation, and keypoints.
- **Workflows** — Low-code interface for composing multi-step vision pipelines and applications.
- **Deploy / Inference** — Open-source, production-ready inference server that runs models on-device, at the edge, in a VPC, or via API with a single Docker command.
- **Universe** — The largest open community for computer vision, with 250,000+ datasets and 50,000+ pre-trained models.
- **RF-DETR** — State-of-the-art real-time transformer object detection and segmentation model; first real-time model to exceed 60 AP on COCO, released open source under Apache 2.0.
- **Autodistill** — Framework that uses large foundation models to auto-label data for smaller edge models - label, train, and deploy in one command.

## Achievements

- Used by over 1 million developers and more than 50% of the Fortune 100.
- Open-source tools downloaded over 1 million times in a recent 30-day period.
- RF-DETR became the first real-time object detection model to exceed 60 AP on the COCO benchmark; paper accepted to ICLR 2026.
- Built Roboflow Universe into the largest open computer vision community with 250,000+ datasets and 50,000+ models.
- Raised $40M Series B led by GV in November 2024 at a reported ~$300M valuation.

## Latest updates

- **2025-03** — Released RF-DETR, a state-of-the-art real-time object detection model, open source under Apache 2.0.
- **2024-11** — Raised a $40M Series B led by GV to invest in enterprise and open-source vision AI.
- **2026-01** — RF-DETR research paper accepted to ICLR 2026; model family expanded across six sizes from Nano to 2XL.

## Links

- Website: https://roboflow.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/roboflow-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/roboflowai
- GitHub: https://github.com/roboflow
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Roboflow
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/roboflowai/

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Last updated: 2026-07-10