Photoroom
photoroom.com
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Computer Vision
Retail & Commerce AI
Generative Image
Photo & Video Editing Software
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$94.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$43M
Series B · Feb 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
20–49
French register · Dec 2023
Hiring now
12
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Y Combinator, Balderton Capital
The money's age
Long since its last round
31 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
25/100
hiring for its size, in the news
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
Mar 25
Increased its share capital $23.1M · BODACC
Dec 27, 2024
Renamed Photoroom · BODACC
Jul 9, 2024
On the Hacker News front page So you want to rent an NVIDIA H100 cluster? 2024 Consumer Guide · 297 points
Feb 27, 2024
Raised a round Series B $43M · PRNewswire
Jul 20, 2023
Partnership PhotoRoom and Warner Bros. Join Forces to Create Viral Barbie Selfie Generator Using Cutting-Edge AI Technology · PRNewswire
Sep 26, 2022
Raised a round Venture round $16.8M · SEC Form D
Jul 27, 2021
On the Hacker News front page Show HN: AI Background Remover · 102 points
Dec 23, 2020
Launched on Hacker News Show HN: A simple web app to create holiday cards from any photo
Jun 2020
Went through Y Combinator
Mar 26, 2019
Released an app Photoroom: AI Photo Editor · App Store
2019
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 0.01%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
App Store
4.8 ★
230k ratings
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series B | Feb 2024 | $43M | — | PRNewswire |
| Venture round | Dec 2023 | $34.7M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Sep 2022 | $16.8M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | PHOTOROOM SAS | its site |
| Registered | 25 Jul 2019 |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Eliot AndresDirectorSEC Form D
Matthieu RouifExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Y Combinator 
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Overview
Photoroom is an AI-powered photo editing platform and app designed specifically for e-commerce, small businesses, and content creators to generate professional product and portrait photography. Its automated tools instantly remove backgrounds, generate studio-quality artificial scenes, and batch-edit images to create clean, visually engaging media. By simplifying complex photo manipulation into one-tap solutions, the company helps users showcase their products and enhance their brand presence across online storefronts and social platforms.
News
Background removal app Photoroom: From a two-person start to 150 million downloadsbespfjapan
This is part of our daily "AI Startup Case Studies" series. Here is a person who built a 100-million-download app with $50 million in annual revenue just by removing photo backgrounds. His name is Matthieu Rouif. The app is called Photoroom. When it was f
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How Photoroom Cut Inference Cold Start to Seconds - leads with the entity + outcome
How Photoroom cut inference cold start from minutes to seconds using NVIDIA Dynamo snapshot and LitServe.
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Photoroom Intelligence Launches Globally
Photoroom, the AI-powered imaging platform processing more than seven billion images annually, today launches Photoroom Intelligence, a new insights and research platform designed to establish a clear industry barometer for excellence in AI-driven visual
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Optimizing our Inference Backend with Custom Load Balancing
Standard load balancers fail on slow GPU inference. We built a shared-state least-request balancer with Envoy, Redis, and Lua - and dropped p99 by 10.
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PRX Part 3 - Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h!
A Blog post by Photoroom on Hugging Face
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Building Google-Docs-like live collaboration for a cross-platform app used by millions (in Rust)
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Why you should change your mobile app version format to year.week.iteration
Why we did it and the downsides
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We're open-sourcing our text-to-image model and the process behind it
A Blog post by Photoroom on Hugging Face
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Photoroom over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
44
Postings analysed
20
Stack modernity
79/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL20%
Python15%
Swift10%
C++5%
Frameworks & libraries
Metal10%
Asyncio5%
Core Image5%
Django5%
Databases
MySQL5%
PostgreSQL5%
Cloud & platforms
Datadog15%
Figma5%
RevenueCat5%
WebAssembly5%
AI & ML
Claude40%
Core ML5%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$68k
Typical range
$13k – $123k
Open positions
2
2
Jobs
Senior
50%
Staff
50%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $13k | $13k |
| Staff | 1 | $123k | $123k |
Highest paying role
SMB Go-to-Market Lead
$123k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Eliot Andres
Director
Matthieu Rouif
Executive Officer, Director
Bernard Liautaud
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
12
4 opened / 8 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
60 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
Product
27% ▼
HR
13% ▼
Sales
13% ▲
Operations
13% ▲
AI/ML
7% ▼
Backend
7% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Machine Learning to stack
Sep 2026
Added Core ML to stack
Sep 2026
Added Core Image to stack
Sep 2026
New location: New York
Sep 2026
Added n8n to stack
Sep 2026
Added Lovable to stack
Sep 2026
Added Agentic Workflows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Stripe to stack
Sep 2026
Added Canva to stack
Sep 2026
Added Shopify to stack
Sep 2026
Added EU AI Act to stack
Sep 2026
Added LinkedIn to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Paris
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Paris
France
HQ
11 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 27% engineering 50-200 est. staff $68k Avg Salary
hires for Product, Sales, AI/ML
12 Rue Charlot, 75003
New York
United States
Sales office
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Sales
The Malin Chelsea 270 7th Ave, New York, 10001, United States
Jobs
≈ $69k – $109k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
Claude
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≈ $61k – $102k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Paris
Python
Django
Django REST Framework
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Mobile
RevenueCat
DevOps
Datadog
Management
Stripe
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≈ $93k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
Claude
Model Context Protocol
AI Agents
LLM Guardrails
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≈ $68k – $108k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Paris
SQL
Claude
Analytics
A/B Testing
Design
Canva
Management
Stripe
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Hybrid • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Paris
Fine-tuning
JAX
Diffusion Models
TensorFlow
PyTorch
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≈ $60k – $108k per year (Estimated) • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
Claude
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$5.4k – $14k per year • Equity • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Paris
Python
SQL
Model Context Protocol
Analytics
A/B Testing
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≈ $125k – $247k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • Paris
Computer Vision
AI Agents
Agentic Workflows
Machine Learning
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