Voxel51

Voxel51 is a private computer vision and visual AI company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, that provides a data platform for building high-quality multimodal datasets and computer vision models. Its flagship product, FiftyOne, combines open-source tooling with enterprise features, enabling ML teams to visualize, curate, annotate, and evaluate image, video, 3D, and point-cloud data to improve model performance in real-world applications. The company positions itself as a leading data platform for physical AI and serves customers across automotive, robotics, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, defense, and security, including organizations such as Porsche, Vivint, Berkshire Grey, Microsoft, Bosch, and LG Electronics. Founded by University of Michigan professor Jason Corso and Brian Moore, Voxel51 originated from academic research around 2016 and was incorporated in 2018. FiftyOne was open-sourced in 2020 and has since grown to millions of downloads, with a commercial FiftyOne Enterprise offering that adds collaboration, security, dataset versioning, and advanced workflows such as auto-labeling and natural-language querying via VoxelGPT. The platform integrates with popular ML frameworks, annotation tools, vector databases, and industry solutions including NVIDIA Omniverse. Voxel51 has raised approximately $45–47 million in funding, including a $30 million Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners in 2024 and a $12.5 million Series A led by Drive Capital. The company continues to expand product capabilities around data curation, model evaluation, and verified auto-labeling research that aims to reduce annotation costs while approaching human-level performance.

We’re on a mission to bring transparency and clarity to the world’s data. Voxel51 empowers AI builders to unlock data insights that maximize model performance and make visual AI a reality across industries from automotive to robotics.

• FiftyOne open-source tool has surpassed 2 million downloads/installs
• Raised $30M Series B in May 2024 led by Bessemer Venture Partners
• Total funding of approximately $45-47M including Series A led by Drive Capital
• Customers and users include Porsche, Vivint, Berkshire Grey, Microsoft, Bosch, and LG Electronics
• Research on verified auto-labeling reporting up to ~90-95% of human-level object-detection performance

Sources

• Voxel51 Official Website
• Voxel51 About Page
• FiftyOne GitHub Repository
• Voxel51 Series B Announcement
• TechCrunch Coverage of Series A
• Voxel51 LinkedIn
• FiftyOne Documentation