Ocular AI (YC W24)

Our mission is to power the next generation of frontier multimodal AI — from raw data to custom, production-ready models. The future of AI will be built on real-world, unstructured data — not just text, but video, images, audio, and more. To build the best models, you need infra. purpose-built for that complexity. Ocular Foundry is an AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse designed to ingest, curate, search, annotate, and train on zettabytes of messy, unstructured data — all in one place. Whether you're building advanced computer vision systems, robotics perception models, or domain-specific generative AI, Foundry gives you a unified end-to-end pipeline to go from data to custom models with speed and precision. Foundry includes: - A multimodal lakehouse built for video, image, and other enterprise data. - Intelligent multimodal search & understanding — Use natural language to search and understand petabytes of video and image data like: "Show me forklifts near a dock" or "Find red cars driving at night." It just works. Our platform understands complex scenes, reads text within videos and images, detects objects and activities, and can even pinpoint the precise timestamps where specific actions are happening. - Advanced annotation tools and AI Data Agents to auto-label at scale. - Full data lineage, versioning, and collaborative QA workflows. - Integrated GPU-powered model training — no context-switching required. - Real-time analytics to monitor data quality, label coverage, and model readiness. For teams needing speed and precision at scale, Ocular Bolt delivers expert-in-the-loop annotations — fast, accurate, and tailored to your domain. Unlike generic crowdwork platforms, Bolt is powered by trained professionals who deeply understand your needs. We're trusted by fast-growing startups and leading enterprises — and backed by Y Combinator, Drive Capital, Alumni Ventures, & top-tier investors.