Roboflow

About Roboflow

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Roboflow

All products by Roboflow reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

RoboflowMachine Learning Platforms

Build and deploy computer vision models without the complexity

From $79/mo8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Roboflow

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Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Roboflow competes with, and how they differ.

Labelbox7.9/10

Labelbox centers on enterprise data-labeling workflows with managed labeling workforces across vision, text, and multimodal data, while Roboflow bundles annotation, training, and deployment specifically for computer vision with a self-serve developer entry point.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Scale AI7.6/10

Scale AI runs managed data-labeling and RLHF services at enterprise scale across vision, language, and autonomous-vehicle data, commanding far larger enterprise contracts than Roboflow's self-serve, developer-first computer vision platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Clarifai7.7/10

Clarifai offers a similar end-to-end computer vision stack (annotation, training, deployment) plus its own foundation vision-language models, making it the closest direct match to Roboflow's core workflow.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

LandingAI8.0/10

LandingAI, founded by Andrew Ng, targets industrial visual inspection and manufacturing defect detection with a no-code CV builder, a narrower vertical focus than Roboflow's general-purpose developer platform.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Google Vertex AI7.9/10

Vertex AI folds AutoML Vision into Google's broader cloud ML platform, competing on GCP-native scale and integration rather than Roboflow's framework-agnostic, CV-specific developer experience.

2 products reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Roboflow's history, with sources.

1. Nov 19, 2024Funding

   Series B — $40M led by GV

   GV (formerly Google Ventures) led a $40 million Series B, joined by existing investors Craft Ventures and Y Combinator and new investors including Guillermo Rauch, Jeff Dean, Valor, and Frontline.

   blog.roboflow.com
2. Sep 16, 2021Funding

   Series A — $20M led by Craft Ventures

   Craft Ventures led a $20 million Series A round for Roboflow, with participation from seed co-lead Lachy Groom and other angel investors.

   blog.roboflow.com
3. Aug 11, 2021Launch

   Roboflow Universe launched

   Roboflow launched Universe, an open hub for computer vision datasets and pre-trained models, starting with over fifty open-source projects from launch partners.

   blog.roboflow.com
4. Jan 12, 2021Funding

   Seed round — $2.1M co-led by Lachy Groom and Craft Ventures

   Roboflow raised a $2.1 million seed round co-led by Lachy Groom and Craft Ventures, with participation from Segment co-founder Calvin French-Owen and Firebase co-founder James Tamplin.

   techcrunch.com
5. 2020Milestone

   Joined Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch

   Roboflow went through Y Combinator's S20 accelerator batch, building toward its mission of making computer vision accessible to every developer, ahead of its 2021 seed round.

   roboflow.com
6. 2019Founded

   Roboflow founded by Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer

   Joseph Nelson and Brad Dwyer founded Roboflow in 2019 after prior work on augmented-reality and computer-vision apps including Magic Sudoku.

   en.wikipedia.org