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AiFi
AI platform enabling autonomous retail spaces
- 101-200 employees
- Hospitality
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- SaaS
- Automation
- Santa Clara, CA
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Company mission
To create a world where AI offers people the things they need, whenever and wherever they need them by helping stores run profitably, customers shop effortlessly, and brands leap to the forefront of retail innovation.
Our take
AiFi was born with the goal to make AI as accessible as WiFi by introducing it into an industry that impacts our everyday lives. AiFi provides a fully adaptable, AI platform that allows retailers to affordably become fully autonomous.
AiFi’s most notorious competitor, Amazon Go, retrofits its stores with specialized cameras, sensors and weight shelves. AiFi argues that this solution is expensive and hard to scale. AiFi’s model uses the cheapest off-the-shelf cameras and, crucially, computer vision, which recognizes products and detects in-store activity. Although, computer vision technology is still developing; AiFi’s platform, for example, often struggles to distinguish between similar sized objects.
Still, AiFi is growing at a faster rate than Amazon Go, and now possesses the largest number of camera only, computer vision powered stores across North America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, marking the scalability of its technology. The potential is huge with Microsoft deciding to partner with AiFi due to its innovative solutions to enhance in-store experience.
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Benefits
- Health insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, Dependent Care FSA, HSA, Commuter Benefits, Life Insurance, Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Schedule
- Generous vacation: Unlimited PTO
- Wellness: Mind, Body, Soul (Yoga, Tai Chi, Meditation & more)
- Retirement: 401k matching
Company values
- Be Authentic: Come to work and be 100% of who you are
- Support Others: Think of AiFi as a place to learn and lean (in each direction) no matter what!
- Celebrate Vulnerability: At AiFi, this is a sign of leadership not weakness
- Be customer obsessed: It shows with every engagement and deliverable
- Stay focused: We deconstruct complex problems, focus and execute effectively
- Take ownership: We rally, inspire and motivate as equal business owners
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2022
$65m
SERIES B
Oct 2020
$15m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $106m
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Leadership
Steve Gu
(Co-founder & CEO)Previously worked as a Sensor Algorithms Engineer for Apple before moving to Google, working in Advanced R&D, Rapid Technology Evaluation.
Ying Zheng
(Co-founder & President)Previously served as a Software Engineer for Google Research, a Senior Research Scientist for Apple and a Senior Software Engineer for Hortonworks.