Advex Raises $3.5M in Seed Funding to Expand AI Vision Solutions for Manufacturing
Advex's technology is utilized in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and consumer electronics for applications including surface defect detection and vision-guided robotics.
Company Name: Advex
Location: San Francisco, CA
Sector: AI Vision, Manufacturing Technology
Funding Details: Raised $3.5 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Construct Capital, with participation from Pear VC, Emerson Collective, and angel investors Arash Ferdowsi (Dropbox founding CTO) and Ankit Jain (Infinitus CEO).
Purpose of Investment:
The company plans to use the funds to expand its operations and accelerate development efforts in AI Vision solutions for manufacturing.
Product and Innovation:
Led by CEO Pedro Pachuca, Advex develops self-healing AI Vision models for industrial applications by leveraging diffusion-based synthetic data. The company focuses on solving the out-of-distribution generalization problem through research in representation learning and diffusion models. By combining real-world data with use-case-specific synthetic data, Advex ensures its AI Vision models are trained on comprehensive and balanced datasets. This approach improves AI performance and reliability in real-world environments and allows for rapid adaptation when conditions change by generating new synthetic data to maintain production-level accuracy.
About the Company:
Advex's technology is utilized in industries such as automotive, aerospace, and consumer electronics for applications including surface defect detection and vision-guided robotics. As a member of the NVIDIA Inception program, Advex partners with machine vision providers to efficiently reach customers and deeply integrate into existing workflows, enhancing the adoption of AI Vision solutions in manufacturing.