Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
AiFi Inc. is a privately held spatial-intelligence and retail-automation company that uses camera-led computer vision and AI to create real-time digital twins of physical spaces. Its technology tracks people, products, and objects to power cashierless shopping, operational analytics, loss prevention, and workflow automation across retail, sports venues, airports, hospitals, universities, and other facilities.
Primary product
AiFi Spatial Intelligence Platform, including camera-based autonomous checkout, Smart Store Analytics, and the eddie Event Driven Data Interpretation Engine API.
Founded
2016
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
51-200
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Spatial intelligence, computer vision, retail automation, and autonomous checkout
Offices
Business model
Stage
Late-stage venture-backed private company
Total raised
$102.1M
Latest round
Venture Round · Aug 2024
Latest amount
$6.7M
Aug 2024
Mar 2022 · Qualcomm Ventures and strategic retail investors
Oct 2020
Dec 2016
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer; Co-founder; former Chief Technology Officer
Former Chief Executive Officer; Advisor; Venture Partner at TransLink Capital
Ying Zheng
Co-founder; former President/CTO
Head of Global Finance / Head of FP&A
Head of Sales and Partnerships, Americas
Will Hendry
Vice President, Data and AI
Bartosz Michalak
Director of Engineering, EU
Daisy Colsell
Director, Technical Project Management
Tomas Rivera
Senior Director, Technology Operations
Sara Carvalho Lopes
Head of Legal Affairs, EMEA
Head of Deployment Operations
Founders
Co-founder; former CEO
Investors
AiFi describes itself as a fully remote company bringing together talent globally. Public materials emphasize technical ambition, customer impact, flexibility, and building computer-vision systems for the physical world. Detailed benefits and formal culture policies are not publicly disclosed.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public compensation data is sparse. AiFi job postings and public company profiles do not provide a reliable company-wide salary framework or comprehensive compensation ranges.
Benefits
Pricing
Enterprise pricing appears to be quote-based and dependent on store format, deployment scope, hardware/software integration, and ongoing platform usage. No public standard pricing was found.
Differentiators
Technology
Customers
Competitors
Estimated revenue
$20 million-$30 million annually; third-party company-profile data estimates approximately $26.2 million
CEO transition: former CEO Steve Carlin moved back toward his venture-partner role at TransLink Capital, while co-founder and former CTO João Diogo Falcão became CEO. The company characterized the transition as planned and said there were no investor or partner changes.
SourcePublic company-profile data indicates approximately 92 employees and a roughly 14% year-over-year employee decline. This is a workforce signal rather than a confirmed layoff announcement; no specific layoff event was found in the reviewed sources.
SourceSports Business Journal · Oct 2025
The article covered AiFi’s eddie API, which interprets real-time physical-space data to help venue and retail operators analyze shopper paths, staffing, inventory, and purchasing behavior.
Sports Business Journal · Oct 2025
AiFi introduced eddie, short for Event Driven Data Interpretation Engine, as an API for converting spatial data into contextual information and operational workflows.
Sports Business Journal · Sep 2025
AiFi announced a planned leadership transition in which co-founder and former CTO João Diogo Falcão became CEO and Steve Carlin moved toward an adviser and venture-partner role.
Retail Technology Innovation Hub · Jul 2025
Żabka opened another AiFi-powered Nano checkout-free store at a Michelin factory in Olsztyn, Poland, expanding the company’s industrial and convenience-retail footprint.
AiFi / PR Newswire · Mar 2022
AiFi announced a $65 million Series B round involving Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, ALDI South Group, Żabka Group, REWE, and others, bringing publicly announced funding at the time to $80 million.
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