In 2019, Brad Dwyer and Joseph Nelson worked on an augmented reality game to solve Sudoku puzzles in real time. In this process, Brad and Joseph became acquainted with a status quo that felt ripe for a change. Annotating images was hard. Benchmarking models was time consuming. Why should I not be able to build a vision application in an afternoon?

With the conviction that every developer should have computer vision available in their toolkit, Brad and Joseph launched Roboflow in 2020.

Years after joining the Y Combinator S20 accelerator with the mission to "make the physical world programmable", Roboflow now empowers over one million developers—including engineers at more than half of the Fortune 100—to build computer vision applications.

With Roboflow, anyone can train a model in an afternoon, implement logic that used to take weeks in under an hour, and deploy to the edge with minimal friction. Roboflow makes it easier than ever to use visual information to solve critical problems—to give your software and systems the sense of sight.