LinkedIn · Jul 2026
OnDeck AI said it would interview candidates at YC Startup School and host breakouts focused on vision research and founding engineer roles.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
OnDeck AI is a Vancouver-based visual intelligence research company building Perception-0, an enterprise vision model/harness for analyzing video and imagery without training customer-specific models. It focuses on complex visual analysis for defense, robotics, public safety, conservation, and related enterprise use cases.
Primary product
Perception-0, an enterprise vision model/harness and Vision API for querying video and image data
Founded
2022
Headquarters
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Team size
1-10
Work style
Hybrid
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Visual intelligence / computer vision infrastructure
Offices
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Canada (distributed)
United Kingdom (distributed)
United States (distributed)
Business model
B2B enterprise software
API usage / platform access
custom enterprise deployments
on-prem / air-gapped deployments
cloud software
Funding
Stage
Pre-Seed
Total raised
$2.2M
Latest round
Pre-Seed Round · Oct 2025
Latest amount
$500K
People & investors
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Co-Founder & CTO
Founding Machine Learning Engineer
Work & culture
Mission-driven, research-heavy team with emphasis on solving hard vision problems, hybrid/in-person collaboration in Vancouver, and hiring researchers and engineers.
Work style
Hybrid
Compensation
Public job postings show engineering compensation bands in Vancouver: Software Engineer $110k-$200k + equity, Machine Learning Engineer $130k-$250k + equity, and Machine Learning Researcher $180k-$400k + equity.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; appears to be enterprise/API and custom deployment pricing
Differentiators
- —Analyzes video and imagery without training custom models or collecting training data
- —Enterprise deployment options including cloud, on-prem, and air-gapped environments
- —SOC 2 certified compliance
- —Self-improving / recursive visual reasoning workflows
- —Repeatable structured outputs and private knowledge integration
- —Claims strong benchmark performance on LVBench
Technology
Vision Language Models (VLMs)
Python
C
JavaScript
Docker
Kubernetes
Unix/Linux
MLOps
RBAC
pre-signed URLs
structured outputs
Customers
Defense agencies
Universities
Robotics companies
Public safety organizations
Conservation / fisheries monitoring customers
Port monitoring customers
Off-shore oil & gas monitoring customers
Competitors
Gemini 3.1 Pro
GPT-4o
Deep Video Discovery
Seed1.5
AdaReTaKe
traditional computer vision / custom VLM vendors
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Not publicly disclosed; third-party estimates range from roughly $684k ARR to about $880k ARR
Estimated monthly visits
6.8K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Apr 2026
OnDeck AI highlighted work with Department of National Defence stakeholders and discussed procurement for startups serving defense customers.
National Fisherman · Mar 2026
Profiled OnDeck AI's work with halibut and blackcod longliners to develop VLM-based review of electronic monitoring footage for fisheries.
Y Combinator on LinkedIn · Aug 2025
Y Combinator announced OnDeck AI's launch, describing its ability to analyze any video without training data and its applicability across defense, public safety, and asset inspection.
LinkedIn · Jul 2025
OnDeck AI announced deployment work with Singapore's Ministry of Defence via a Cap Vista / AI innovation challenge context.
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