Lubomir Bourdev

Lubomir Bourdev is a computer-vision scientist turned serial founder. He was the first person hired at Facebook for computer vision and a founding member of Facebook AI Research, where he built the object-recognition engine that runs on every photo and video across Facebook and Instagram. He co-founded WaveOne, a deep-learning video-compression company acquired by Apple in 2023, and earlier shipped the face detector inside Adobe Photoshop Elements. Today he is co-founder and CEO of Primepoint, a San Mateo startup building AI that reads and understands construction drawings, which closed a $10M seed round in April 2026. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley, more than 175 patents, and over 100,000 research citations.