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Cerrion

Industrials4 open1 remote
Zürich, Switzerland16+ employeesSeed raised
Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line…

Video AI to automatically detect and respond to production line problems

YC S22

About the Company

Cerrion is a Zurich-based AI startup backed by Y Combinator and leading Silicon Valley investors. Our mission is to help shape the autonomous and sustainable future of manufacturing. To do so we are building AI and human-centered automation that enables everyone on the factory floor to make better and faster decisions. Our team, which consists of AI PhDs, Ex-Googlers and serial entrepreneurs, has built state-of-the-art video-based Computer Vision that is automatically monitoring production lines in more than 7 countries. If you are fascinated by building technology that has direct real impact on industries that affect our day to day life, we're the right place for you.

We are already working with some of the largest manufacturing companies in Europe to help them make their operations more transparent, sustainable and efficient. And we are just getting started: Our goal is to change the status quo and have our video-based AI monitor every every production line around the globe.

Tech Stack

📚 Our backend stack:

  • Video processing with ffmpeg and python
  • Data streaming with Apache Kafka, persistent data storage in MongoDB
  • Containerized microservices with docker compose
  • Computer Vision models in PyTorch
  • GitHub with CI/CD Processing and storage on Google Cloud and bare metal at customers

Founders

Nikolay Kobyshev
Nikolay Kobyshev

Nikolay is the co-founder and CPO of Cerrion. He is in charge of building a product that Cerrion's users will truly love, and customer success. He is a serial entrepreneur in the AI and CV space. Prior to Cerrion, Nikolay has built Spectando, an AI engine which generates photorealistic 3D models of real estate objects, and Assaia, a B2B Computer Vision solution which detects irregularities in airports’ ground operations. Nikolay holds PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Vision from ETH Zurich.

Karim Saleh
Karim Saleh

Karim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Cerrion. Karim grew up in Egypt where he was a professional athlete and captain of Egypt's Water Polo national team. He represented his country at three world championships while simultaneously receiving an electrical engineering degree from ETH Zurich. Prior to founding Cerrion Karim has built Unicorn Labs which has helped 30+ startups build their MVPs.

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