Roboflow is a 🏷️#computer-vision platform, launched in 2020, that gives developers and enterprises the tools to label image data, train models, and deploy them to the cloud or to edge devices. Its products include Annotate, Train, Deploy, Workflows for building vision pipelines with little code, an agent for vision tasks, and Universe, a public community of datasets and models. Customers range from individual developers on a free tier to enterprise teams in manufacturing, logistics, automotive, energy, robotics, and warehousing.
Co-founders Joseph Nelson (CEO) and Brad Dwyer began the project in 2019 as an 📝augmented reality Sudoku-solving app, then went through 📝Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch. The company describes its mission as making the physical world programmable. In November 2024 it raised a $40M 📝Series B led by GV, formerly 📝Google Ventures (GV), with 📝Craft Ventures and Y Combinator participating alongside angels including Jeff Dean and Guillermo Rauch, founder of 📝Vercel; GV general partner Crystal Huang joined the board. Roboflow reports more than one million developers on its platform, including engineers at more than half of the Fortune 100, and hosts open models such as RF-DETR and the YOLO family for training and deployment.