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Outerport

San Francisco, CA, USA4+ employeesSeed raised
Turn diagrams, technical documents, and CAD into structured data

Turn diagrams, technical documents, and CAD into structured data

YC S24

About the Company

The engineering world (manufacturing, construction, industrials) relies heavily on 2-dimensional PDF and CAD drawings as a way to communicate between companies. Engineers spend hundreds of hours to annotate and digitize these drawings to run simulations, quote work, build automations, and investigate issues in factories. Unfortunately, LLMs and VLMs are still quite bad at analyzing these drawings.

Outerport is building a foundation model for turning technical engineering documents into structured data, alongside an interactive application platform on top of this to solve some of the most pressing issues for the world's biggest enterprise companies. Outerport is already used at Fortune 500 enterprise companies in manufacturing & industrials.

Our team consists of experts in computer vision, computer graphics, systems software, and AI from NVIDIA, LinkedIn, Meta, Embark Trucks, Tulip Interfaces, and more. With backing from Y Combinator and top-tier venture capital firms and angels, we're looking to expand our team to accelerate product development.

We work in-person in SF, and we're a team that enjoy playing sports together and learning about the latest LLM and VLM papers.

Founders

Towaki Takikawa
Towaki Takikawa

Ex-Research Scientist at NVIDIA on computer vision / AI for 3D (3D reconstruction, 3D foundation models). Previous work in robotics / autonomous driving (systems engineering / electro-mechanical design) and manufacturing.

Allen Wang
Allen Wang

I previously worked at Tome (LLMs / diffusion models for slide decks), Embark (computer vision for self-driving), Meta (data science), LinkedIn (graph analytics). CS and math alum from UWaterloo.

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