Plainsight
$12Mlatest round · Venture round · May 2024 · 2 yr ago
50+team · employees, estimated range
14stories in the press
2016founded
Overview
Plainsight builds vision artificial intelligence applications for industries such as food processing, energy and agriculture. Founded in 2016 in San Francisco, it provides a filter-based framework for deploying models to edge cameras. Its counting and inspection solutions run in plants where connectivity is limited.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$12M
1 round on record
Latest round
$12M
Venture round · May 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Long since its last round
29 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
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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
May 31, 2024
Raised a round Venture round $12M · SEC Form D
Jan 4, 2023
Partnership Plainsight and MarineSitu Announce Collaboration to Propel a Sustainable Blue Economy Into The Future · PRNewswire
2016
Founded
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Web presence
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2024 | $12M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Plainsight Technologies Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Christian MerkerExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
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Financials
Total raised
$12M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | $12M | Details |
People
Christian Merker
Executive Officer
Spencer Powers
Director
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News
Plainsight Appoints Venky Renganathan as Chief Technology Officer
SEATTLE, October 14, 2025--Plainsight, a leader in computer vision AI solutions, today announced the appointment of Venky Renganathan as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Renganathan is an enterprise technology leader with more than two decades lead
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Plainsight Names Jonathan Simkins President and CFO
SEATTLE, September 30, 2025--Plainsight, the leader in operationalizing computer vision through its pioneering modern computer vision infrastructure, today announced Jonathan Simkins as its President and CFO. In this role, Simkins will help scale Plainsig
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Plainsight Introduces Open Source OpenFilter for Scalable Computer Vision AI
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 21, 2025--(Embedded Vision Summit, booth #518)-- Plainsight, the leader in automated infrastructure for data-centric AI pipelines, today announced the launch of OpenFilter, an open source project that simplifies and accelerates th
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Plainsight Technologies: Offering Computer Vision For A Wide Variety Of Business Use Cases To Make Custom AI Models Easier
Plainsight Technologies provides computer vision for a wide variety of business use cases in the form of applications called Vision Intelligence Filters. Pulse 2.0 interviewed the newly appointed CEO, Kit Merker, to learn more about the company.
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Plainsight Joins the SoftIron Technology Alliance Partner Program
SoftIron and Plainsight Technologies partner to power AI vision at the edge on SoftIron's true private cloud--HyperCloud SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SoftIron, the worldwide leader in true private cloud infrastructure, today announced
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Plainsight and MarineSitu Announce Collaboration to Propel a Sustainable Blue Economy Into The Future
/PRNewswire/ -- Plainsight, the leader in proven vision AI, today announced its collaboration with MarineSitu, a provider of state-of-the-art marine hardware...
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
San Francisco
United States
HQ
50-200 est. staff