Shephard · May 2026
Reports U.S. Army and USAF testing Deepnight’s AI-enabled imaging capability for low- and no-light operations.
Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Deepnight is a San Francisco-based AI night-vision startup that builds digital night vision cameras/software by running AI models on commodity CMOS sensors and edge AI chips, replacing or outperforming traditional analog image intensifier tubes in very low-light conditions.
Primary product
AI-powered digital night vision cameras and software
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
11-50 employees
Industry
Embedded Software Products
Sub-industry
AI night vision / computational imaging
Offices
2261 Market Street Suite 10041, San Francisco, CA 94114, United States
Business model
B2B software
defense contracting
hardware partnerships
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$6M
Latest round
Seed · Feb 2025
Latest amount
$5.5M
People & investors
Leadership
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder & President
Chief Scientist
VP of Sales
Work & culture
Mission-driven and engineering-heavy, with a cross-functional team spanning AI, embedded software, optics, and electrical engineering to ship real hardware rather than only models.
Product & market
Pricing
Defense/enterprise contract sales and partner-led B2B software deployment
Differentiators
- —AI-first / software-defined night vision
- —uses commodity CMOS sensors instead of image intensifier tubes
- —runs real-time on-device on edge AI chips
- —lower-cost digital approach designed to scale through consumer electronics supply chains
- —works in moonless starlight and extremely low-light conditions
- —pairs software with hardware partners instead of selling only standalone hardware
Technology
commodity CMOS image sensors
edge AI chips
computational imaging
neural-network image processing
real-time on-device inference
embedded software
machine learning
optics
electrical engineering
edge GPU processing
Customers
U.S. Army
U.S. Air Force
Anduril
SRI International
Sionyx
Competitors
L3Harris
Elbit America
Anduril
Nivisys Industries
Sightmark
Pyser-SGI Group
Apex.AI
Oxa
Polaris Sensor Technologies
EYE2DRIVE
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
≈$1.2M estimated ARR
Latest news
Circle Optics · Apr 2026
Announces a deployment with Deepnight supporting counter-UAS operations across Barksdale AFB and Barry M. Goldwater Range, highlighting Deepnight’s edge AI night-vision capability.
PRWeb / Picogrid · Nov 2025
Describes a partnership integrating Deepnight software-defined night vision into edge sensors for base defense and noting a $1.7M DoW contract.
GlobeNewswire / Deepnight · Feb 2025
Funding announcement for the $5.5M seed round led by Initialized Capital with Y Combinator and angel investors participating.
TechCrunch · Feb 2025
Explains the founding story, early federal contracts, software-first model, and investor mix behind Deepnight’s AI night-vision startup.
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