Lightly
lightly.ai
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AI Training Data & Annotation
Computer Vision
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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
2
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, SICTIC
The money's age
Long since its last round
52 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
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
Y Combinator 
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News
Lightly Poking at the CSS if() Function in Chrome 137
The CSSif() function was recently implemented in Chrome 137, making it the first instance where we have it supported by a mainstream browser. Let's poke at it a bit at a very high level.
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NVIDIA Blackwell B200 vs H100: Real-World Benchmarks, Costs, and Why We Self-Host
The B200 is up to 57% faster for model training than the H100, up to 10x cheaper to run when self-hosted, and we've broken down all the costs, performance metrics, and power consumption data inside.
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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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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
6
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
71/100
Cloud & platforms
arXiv
Practices & domains
AI Agents
Multimodal AI
Physical AI
Computer Vision
Machine Learning
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People
Matthias Heller
Managing Directors
Igor Susmelj
Managing Directors
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
80/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
2
1 opened / 1 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
39 days
faster than 35% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~11 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
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.
Sales
67% ▼
Operations
33% ▲
Activity Timeline
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 |