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Hyun Kim Is Teaching AI to See the World Beyond the Screen
A six-month lab failure nudged Hyun Kim from genetics toward automation. Eight years after founding Superb AI, he is still chasing the same practical question: how do you make intelligent systems work when the real world refuses to behave like a demo?
Chooch Taught Cameras to Count - Now It Wants to Run the Hospital Supply Room
The decade-old vision-AI company has traded a sprawling menu of use cases for a sharper bet: hospital shelves that count themselves. The prize is fewer stockouts and less waste; the catch is that cameras, integrations and local reality still have to cooperate.
Anubhav Saxena Is Teaching AI to Look Up From the Chatbox
After two decades spent automating work, the Chooch CEO is betting that AI's next useful trick is not better conversation. It is sight - deployed where shelves empty, machines fail and cameras never blink.
Nishant Hooda Applied to YC Four Times. Then He Made Software Testing Look at the Screen.
An AWS internship introduced him to his future co-founder. Four applications got them into Y Combinator. Now Docket is betting that the next generation of software tests will use the screen the way people do.
The Startup That Thinks AI Finance Needs Better Plumbing, Not Another Dashboard
Viewz raised $7 million to rip out the tangle of apps behind every finance team and replace them with one governed ledger. The bet: fix the pipes before you bolt on the AI.
The Vacuum That Watches Your Whole House and Tells Nobody
Two ex-Google engineers ditched the lidar puck, skipped the cloud, and built a robot that maps your home with five cameras - and keeps every frame on the device. Here is why families say it hands them their weekends back.
DTEK.ai
DTEK.ai is a Dubai-based retail AI company whose flagship product, SWIFT, replaces barcode scanning with computer vision: shoppers set their items down on a kiosk, the system recognises them in a fraction of a second, and the transaction closes in about twenty to thirty seconds. Founded in January 2021 as Dukkantek - a cloud point-of-sale and store-management platform for the corner grocers of the Gulf - the company rebranded around late 2023 and rebuilt itself around vision models, adding SIGHT (turning existing CCTV into non-biometric store analytics) and a layer of configurable AI agents for loss prevention and reporting. It has raised $15.2 million across two rounds from investors including Global Founders Capital, BECO Capital, Rocketship and Wamda Capital, and in May 2026 signed its most visible deal to date: a rollout of SWIFT across 50 Oasis by ADNOC convenience stores in the UAE, with ADNOC Distribution citing a target of more than 60 percent faster checkout.
Tiliter
Tiliter is a Sydney-based computer-vision company that turns ordinary camera images into structured operational data. It began by solving product recognition at retail scale - identifying fresh produce and unbarcoded goods at self-checkout with high accuracy and no stickers - and has since expanded into a broader platform of AI 'Vision Agents' for verification, inspection, counting, damage detection, OCR and cleanliness auditing across retail, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and industrial operations.
DeepHow
DeepHow is a Detroit-based enterprise AI company that turns the hands-on know-how of experienced industrial workers into structured, searchable training. Founded in 2018 by former Siemens innovation leaders, its platform uses vision AI and machine learning to capture expert workflows on video, automatically segment and transcribe them into step-by-step guides, and - in its newer 'physical AI' products - verify that frontline operators are performing tasks correctly in real time. Used by manufacturers, pharma companies and field-service organizations to close skills gaps as veteran workers retire.
Shopic
Shopic is a Tel Aviv-based retail technology company that turns ordinary shopping carts into AI-powered smart carts using a clip-on device driven by computer vision. Its platform recognizes items at the individual level in real time, enabling frictionless checkout, targeted in-store promotions, loss prevention, and store analytics without requiring retailers to rip out and replace their existing fleet of carts. Founded in 2015 by cybersecurity veterans, Shopic has raised roughly $56M and deployed with grocers including Israel's Shufersal, Walmart Chile, and Italian and French chains.
Fingermark
Fingermark is a New Zealand technology company that builds purpose-built AI, computer vision, and digital signage for quick-service restaurants. Its platform turns existing store cameras into operational intelligence (Eyecue), powers self-service ordering kiosks (Supersonic), and centrally manages digital menu boards (Supernova) - helping global chains like McDonald's, KFC and Yum! Brands serve customers faster and lift order accuracy and value.
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.
Superb AI
Superb AI is a computer vision AI company that builds an end-to-end MLOps and DataOps platform, letting teams label, curate, train, and deploy vision models on images, video, and 3D LiDAR data. Founded in 2018 and a Y Combinator alum, it uses AI-assisted automation to shrink the slow, manual work of preparing training data, and serves enterprise customers across autonomous driving, manufacturing, security, and public sector from offices in San Mateo and Seoul.
Neuralzome Cybernetics
Neuralzome Cybernetics is a Bengaluru-based deeptech startup building teachable, no-code AI agents that let ordinary off-road vehicles drive themselves through messy, GPS-denied places like orchards, farms and job sites. Its flagship autonomy stack, NeuralPilot, fuses vision, SLAM and GPS with a layered safety system and learns from human demonstration, while its RedPill simulator trains robots on photorealistic digital twins before they ever touch dirt. Founded in 2023 by Mohan Sivam and Aditya Shriwastava, the company sells autonomy as a service to labor-intensive industries and raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding in August 2025 to expand into North America and Europe.
Tom Fox
Tom Fox is the Chief Executive Officer of Fingermark, a New Zealand-founded technology company that deploys vision AI, intelligent kiosks, and digital menu systems inside some of the world's biggest quick-service restaurant chains. Based in San Francisco, Fox leads a 90-person global operation whose Eyecue platform turns ordinary restaurant cameras into real-time operational intelligence - monitoring drive-thru queues, measuring speed of service, and surfacing AI-generated performance diagnostics across fleets of McDonald's, Taco Bell, KFC, Popeyes, and Carl's Jr. locations. He brings a career built at the intersection of restaurant technology and enterprise operations, having previously served as Chief Business Officer at Omnivore (acquired by Olo), Chief Product Officer at Bite, and Head of Partnerships at Ansa.