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Focal
Retail automation & optimization
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- SaaS
- Automation
- Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
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Company mission
To lower the cost of living for all mankind by automating and optimizing brick and mortar retail with the latest advancements in AI.
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Our take
Even in the largest retailers, inventory systems are usually manual, with staff checking inventory to get an idea of stock numbers, spoilage and other metrics. These are slow and introduce a high degree of human error, as well as being difficult to carry out around shoppers.
Focal Systems leverages a network low cost, ruggedized cameras and computer vision to scan a store's shelves automatically, alerting the backroom of the need to restock an area of the store in real time. In a time when retailers are facing staff shortages and supply chain issues, this kind of automation is in high demand, as is evidenced by Focal System's customer base which includes the likes of Walmart, ShopRite and Piggly Wiggly.
Having raised an impressive amount of funding, Focal Systems is doubling down on R&D and expanding its global sales and engineering teams. As more brick and mortar retailers begin to adopt automated solutions, Focal Systems is a strong position to continue its growth.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Catered lunches
- Paid Time Off
- Quarterly Team Retreats
- Education grants
- Meaningful equity-grants in a very fast growing startup that is aiming for an IPO
Company values
- Be the best technology partner you work with
- We are a deep learning first company
- Only when you test your limits do you realize you have none
- The hardest working, most dedicated team will win
- Own your work
- Row as one
- Focus and solve one problem at a time
- Hypothesize, experiment, measure, repeat
- Crave change, embrace discomfort
- Burn the boats
- Love life, love the world
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2021
$25.8m
SERIES B
Dec 2019
$4.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.9m
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Leadership
Francois Chaubard
(CEO)Was a part of Lockheed Martin's Engineering Leadership Development Program. Then worked as a Deep Learning Researcher at Bay Sensors and Apple.
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