Four years ago today, Voxel51 Inc. was born! It’s been an incredible journey so far and we wanted to take a moment to reflect on where we’ve been and celebrate what we’ve accomplished so far as a FiftyOne community.
Voxel51 Throughout the Years
Here are some key dates and milestones from our first four years as a company:
October 18, 2018: Started Voxel51 Inc. to enable developers, scientists, and organizations to build high-quality datasets and computer vision models
August 8, 2019: Announced Seed Funding
June 1, 2020: Released FiftyOne 0.1 to a few dozen private-beta users
August 11, 2020: Open sourced FiftyOne, making it the open source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models
Late July, 2021: Began working with dozens of startups and Fortune 500 enterprises as early adopters of FiftyOne Teams
September 21, 2022: Announced Series A funding and the public availability of FiftyOne Teams
Today: Voxel51 turns four!
Wait, Who’s Voxel51 and What Do You Do?
If you’re new to Voxel51 and FiftyOne, no worries — here’s a little bit about us. We’re Voxel51 and our mission is to bring transparency and clarity to the world’s data. We’re the company behind the open source FiftyOne project, the open source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models. We also build FiftyOne Teams, our commercial product that enables teams to securely collaborate on their datasets and models. Tens of thousands of engineers and scientists have integrated open source FiftyOne into their ML workflows. It’s easy to get up and running in minutes — learn how in the docs.
Celebrating Our 4 Years — and More!
Not only do we love celebrating our years of incorporated bliss with sugary treats, but we also — and more importantly — love celebrating our community and customers.
Celebrating FiftyOne & Our Community
Today we are proud to share that FiftyOne has crossed 2000 stars on GitHub! Open source software doesn’t happen without an amazing community supporting it, so a big thank you to all our stargazers and everyone in the FiftyOne community for your support and contributions over the years.
Since open sourcing FiftyOne in August 2020, we have released tons of new capabilities and features. The latest big FiftyOne release was last month — v0.17 added support for 3D datasets, grouped datasets, geolocation data, custom plugins, and more. You can read more about it in the release blog post.
Many of the new goodies over the years have come from you — through your PRs, GitHub issues, feedback, and questions in the community Slack. Thank you for making FiftyOne what it is today and as it continues to evolve! Now, with full support for images, video, 3D, and geolocation, we hope FiftyOne can become a helpful hub for all your datasets throughout your ML workflows.
Other FiftyOne community milestones that we’re celebrating today include:
- 1,075+ FiftyOne Slack members
- 1,300+ Meetup members
- Used in 178 repositories
- 43 open source contributors
Thanks again to our growing and enthusiastic community, we look forward to reaching many more milestones with you!
Celebrating FiftyOne Teams & Our Customers
A little over a year ago, we began working with dozens of startups and Fortune 500 enterprises as early adopters of FiftyOne Teams, our commercial product that enables teams to securely collaborate on their datasets and models. By providing us with real-world usage, input, and feedback, our early adopters helped us shape and harden the FiftyOne Teams solution that we announced last month.
FiftyOne Teams helps customers across a variety of industries, including automotive, autonomous vehicles, robotics, security, retail, healthcare, and more. Companies big, small, and everywhere in between have seen tremendous value in extending FiftyOne into a team-centered implementation for their team or entire organization.
A huge shoutout and thank you to all of our early adopters for making FiftyOne Teams what it is today, including these customers who have this to share about their experiences:
“We’ve used FiftyOne Teams at ADT Commercial for a year now. It has helped us manage our huge datasets, collaborate on model evaluation, tighten our production schedule, and ultimately deliver solutions that help our customers better manage their risk. FiftyOne Teams has added tremendous value to our computer vision processes.”
– Philippe Sawaya, Director of Artificial Intelligence, ADT Commercial
“We use FiftyOne Teams to organize, select, display, and share our data which has led to better collaboration with and understanding of our large volume of data. FiftyOne Teams enables us to gain insights such as identifying and understanding data problems early, hypothesis validation, and dataset management overall. This has led to better solution engineering and better testing for the products and services we deliver to our customers.”
– Lanny Lin, Senior Director of AI and Data Science, Vivint
Celebrating People at Voxel51
Voxel51 wouldn’t be here today without the brilliant and thoughtful people that make up our team. Thank you to everyone who has shaped Voxel51 so far on our incredible journey. And to those who will be part of the future of that journey: we’re just getting started — the best is yet to come!
We’re building a fully-remote team of people who want to help us achieve our mission of bringing transparency and clarity to the world’s data, and we’re going to need many more exceptional and diverse people to help us. If our mission excites you, check out our open positions across product, engineering, community, and more.
What’s Next
- If you like what you see on GitHub, give the project a star
- Get started, we’ve made it easy to get up and running in a few minutes
- Join the FiftyOne Slack community, we’re always happy to help
- Check out our open positions and consider joining us on our mission
