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YC grad Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion dollar industry
The founders created military-grade night vision with AI software that began as a smartphone app. And now the military is a customer.
Both were working as software engineers at Google when Young decided he wanted to crack the code, so to speak, on a problem that had plagued the U.S. military for decades: digital night vision tech. A year after launching, the startup has booked about $4.6 million in contracts from the federal government, including the US Army and Air Force, as well as with companies like Sionyx and SRI International. By the end of YC, it raised a $5.5 million round led by Initialized Capital, with angels like Kulveer Taggar, former In-Q-Tel partner Brian Shin, and Matthew Bellamy, lead singer of the band Muse.
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