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Photoroom (YC S20) — Power commerce photography with generative AI

Photoroom provides photo editing software powerful enough to create outstanding images yet simple enough to be used without any training. We leverage deep learning to translate pixels into objects, drastically simplifying non-creative tasks such as removing backgrounds from images.

Photoroom is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2020 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Power commerce photography with generative AI. The founders listed are Matt Rouif (Founder), Eliot Andres (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, August 3, 2020).

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Photoroom

New accelerator entry · 2020-08-03 · the record

Summer 2020
batch
100
people
Growth
stage
France
region
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BatchSummer 2020
Announced2020-08-03
StageGrowth
StatusActive
Team size100
IndustryConsumer
Sub-industryConsumer -> Content
SectorsGenerative AI, Computer Vision, Design Tools, API, AI
RegionsFrance, Europe, Remote, Partly Remote
BasedParis, Île-de-France, France
HiringNo
Sitehttps://photoroom.com/
Previously known asArtizans, PhotoRoom

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Photoroom provides photo editing software powerful enough to create outstanding images yet simple enough to be used without any training. We leverage deep learning to translate pixels into objects, drastically simplifying non-creative tasks such as removing backgrounds from images. Our mission: enable entrepreneurs and small businesses to compose images that stand out.

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