Lightly
AI Development Tools · Computer Vision
2open roles
$3Mlatest round · Seed · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
4backers · Y Combinator, First Momentum
Growinghiring pace, 65 of 100
Overview
The Multimodal Computer Vision Platform. One integrated computer vision platform for labeling, curation, QA, and datasets management. Lightly is built for ML engineers and organizations scaling computer vision.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$3M
1 round on record
Latest round
$3M
Seed · May 2022 · 4 yr ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
5
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Y Combinator, First Momentum
The money's age
Long since its last round
54 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
49/100
hiring for its size, a new city, rising traction
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 7, 2024
On the Hacker News front page Segment Anything Model and Friends · 110 points
May 11, 2022
Raised a round Seed $3M · Nasdaq
Jun 2021
Went through Y Combinator
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 2%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Hacker News stories
28
best: 110 points
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | May 2022 | $3M | — | Nasdaq |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Lightly AG | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Matthias HellerManaging Directorscompany's site
Igor SusmeljManaging Directorscompany's site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$154k
Typical range
$154k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $154k | $154k |
Highest paying role
Senior FP&A Expert - Financial Task Design and Evaluation
$154k
Normalized to USD per year
Growth
Hiring Momentum
65/100
Growing
Open positions
5
3 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 34% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Operations
40% ▼
AI/ML
20% ▲
Data Science
20% ▲
Finance
20% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Microsoft Excel to stack
Oct 2026
New location: Prague
Oct 2026
Added Python to stack
Oct 2026
Added Microsoft Office to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack
Sep 2026
Added arXiv to stack
Sep 2026
Financials
Total raised
$3M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | 2022 | $3M | Details |
People
Matthias Heller
Managing Directors
Igor Susmelj
Managing Directors
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lightly over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
8
Postings analysed
10
Stack modernity
69/100
Languages
Python10%
Cloud & platforms
arXiv20%
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Soma CapitalVia a fund
876 portfolio companies
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News
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NVIDIA Blackwell B200 vs H100: Real-World Benchmarks, Costs, and Why We Self-Host
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OpenAI CLIP Model Explained: An Engineer's Guide
Explore OpenAI's CLIP model, a breakthrough in multimodal AI that learns visual concepts from natural language. Discover how its dual-encoder architecture enables zero-shot image classification, text-image retrieval, and more, without the need for labeled
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We switched from Pillow to Albumentations and got 2x speedup
Switching from Pillow to Albumentations and Torchvision doubled our data preprocessing speed, pushing GPU utilization to nearly 100%. Read how we optimized our pipeline for faster training.
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An Introduction to Contrastive Learning for Computer Vision
Learn what contrastive learning is and how engineers can use it to train AI models by teaching them to distinguish between similar and dissimilar data. This guide explores key techniques, real-world applications, and the benefits of contrastive learning i
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The Engineer's Guide to Self-Supervised Learning
Learn what self-supervised learning is and how engineers can use it to train AI models with minimal labeled data. This guide explores key techniques, real-world applications, and the benefits of self-supervised learning in computer vision and machine lear
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A Brief Introduction to Vision LanguageModels
Overview of recent advancements in the field of Vision Language Models. From early contrastive learning approaches like CLIP to more advanced models like Flamingo and LLaVA.
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Segment Anything Model and Friends
The Segment Anything Model (SAM) and its successors made a significant leap forward in computer vision, particularly in image and video segmentation. Along with SAM's innovative approach to promptable segmentation, the literature rapidly evolved to addres
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SAMv2 Mask Generator - a Hugging Face Space by lightly-ai
Upload an image and draw bounding boxes around objects to get segmentation masks highlighting those objects.
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Zurich
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Zurich
Switzerland
HQ
2 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50% remote 10-50 est. staff $154k Avg Salary
hires for Finance, Sales
Prague
Czech Republic
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for Data Science