Compound Eye is an AI company building 3D vision systems that allow machines to perceive and understand their surroundings in real time using only passive sensors - cameras and inertial measurement units - rather than LiDAR or radar. Founded in 2015, the company works across 3D computer vision, passive sensor perception, real-time perception and semantic 3D scene understanding, combining modern AI with classical computer vision techniques. Its stated mission is to teach machines to see the way humans do.
The company's flagship technology, VIDAS, takes video from automotive-grade cameras and outputs dense, semantic 3D representations of the world, which vehicles and robots then use to navigate their environments. The output is dense, semantic 3D generated from standard camera video in real time.
Compound Eye's technology is applied across defense, heavy equipment, automotive, agriculture, healthcare and robotics. The company operates as a remote-first team based in the United States, and is backed by investors including Khosla Ventures and RTX Ventures.
