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Visual Layer

Unlock the value of your visual data

Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded 2022

Asset type

Early-stage company

Industry

AI & ML

Company size

11-50

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Visual Layer’s AI platform allows teams to easily organize, explore, enrich, and extract valuable insights from massive troves of unstructured video and image data at scale.

About Visual Layer

Why we invested

Great team with proven execution ability and deep domain expertise in AI and computer vision
Broad addressable market with clear use cases in technology, manufacturing, defense, media, and retail
Well positioned to benefit as AI moves from largely text based to multimodal with text + images

Investment overview

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Last funding date: May 16, 2023
Total funding amount: 7M

Danny Bickson, Amir Alish, and Professor Carlos Guestrin founded Visual Layer in 2022 to address the challenges of managing visual data at scale. The Visual Layer platform provides a suite of tools for exploring, enriching, and extracting visual data at scale. The platform has a strong focus on data quality, which is a critical driver of model performance. By improving the underlying data and making it easier to manage, Visual Layer not only boosts accuracy of the AI models but also makes image data more actionable for traditional, non-AI workflows.

Visual data is becoming increasingly central as large models add multi-modal capabilities and companies aim to replicate the scaling laws of LLMs with image data. The former head of AI and computer vision at Tesla said their team spent as much as 75% of their time focused on data cleaning and preparation. Visual Layer’s ability to accelerate the cleaning and curation process helps address the biggest bottleneck in the process of scaling and deploying computer vision systems.

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Net asset value$361M

Inception dateJul 2022

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