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Overview.ai

AI machine vision for manufacturing inspection

  • Computer Vision
  • Manufacturing
  • Hardware

About

Overview builds AI vision systems that inspect parts on manufacturing lines. Each smart camera carries its own GPU, so models train and run on the device and production data never leaves the factory floor, and vision-transformer models learn new defects from far fewer images than traditional machine vision, so a new inspection can go live in days.

Chris Van Dyke, Russell Nibbelink, Xiaoyang Kao and Austin Appel founded Overview in 2018 after years scaling production at Tesla, where they had tried every inspection system on the market. It went through Y Combinator in 2019 and raised a $10M Series A led by Blumberg Capital in 2022.

Record

Stage
Series A
Category
Computer Vision
Location
San Francisco, California
Team
51-100
Total raised
$13.3M

Founders

  • Chris Van Dyke

    Co-Founder & CEO

    Previously spent eight years at Tesla, where he built the Supercharger program, set up the Gigafactory infrastructure team and led Model 3 battery design.

  • Russell Nibbelink

    Co-Founder & COO

    Previously a software engineer at Salesforce working on web-scale infrastructure, after studying EECS at UC Berkeley.

  • Xiaoyang Kao

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Previously CTO of the Taipei education startup CHOXUE, where he built its web systems.

  • Austin Appel

    Co-Founder

    Previously spent four years at Tesla in manufacturing and R&D, after studying manufacturing and mechanical engineering at Northwestern.