# Umbo Computer Vision

> Umbo Computer Vision is a San Francisco and Taipei based startup building autonomous video security systems that use deep learning to watch camera feeds the way a human guard would - flagging intrusions, tailgating and wall-scaling in real time while ignoring birds, cats and weather. Founded in 2014 by Shawn Guan, Ping-Lin Chang and Tingfan Wu, the company pairs its SmartDome camera hardware with a neural-net engine called Light and a cloud platform, and has raised roughly $17.6M to sell mostly through security integrators to businesses, schools and public-safety customers.

- **Founded:** 2014
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Shawn Guan (Co-founder & CEO), Ping-Lin Chang (Co-founder & CTO), Tingfan Wu (Co-founder & Chief Scientist)
- **Team size:** ~22 employees
- **Products:** Umbo SmartDome, Umbo Light, Umbo Smart Cloud, AI Events
- **Notable:** Raised $17.6M total across seed, Series A and a post-A round., Booked $1.4M in pre-orders and letters of intent before mass manufacturing began., Shipped autonomous video security systems to customers in the US, Europe and Dubai.

## Products & services

- **Umbo SmartDome** — A 1080p cloud-connected smart security camera with on-device recording up to 30 days, power-over-ethernet, 256-bit encryption and automatic low-bandwidth streaming.
- **Umbo Light** — A deep-learning neural-net engine that understands human behavior in a security context - detecting intrusion, tailgating and wall-scaling while ignoring animals and weather - accessible from desktop and mobile.
- **Umbo Smart Cloud** — A hardware-agnostic, off-premise cloud platform that manages multiple camera feeds and runs neural-net analysis, sending real-time alerts on unusual activity.
- **AI Events** — An AI-driven event system that tags and surfaces security-relevant activity from live video for search and analysis.

## Achievements

- Raised $17.6M total across seed, Series A and a post-A round.
- Booked $1.4M in pre-orders and letters of intent before mass manufacturing began.
- Shipped autonomous video security systems to customers in the US, Europe and Dubai.
- Built the 'Light' neural-net engine capable of behavior-level threat detection, not just object matching.
- Founding team includes multiple PhDs in robotic vision (Imperial College London).

## Latest updates

- **2019-10** — Raised an $8M post-A round to accelerate company growth and global expansion, bringing total funding to $17.6M.
- **2017-10** — Closed a $6.8M Series A and unveiled new features for its flagship autonomous video security product, Light.
- **2016-03** — Raised a $2.8M seed round led by AppWorks to build smart security cameras that prevent crimes.

## Links

- Website: https://umbocv.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/umbo-cv
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/umbocv
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UmboCV/

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