Plumerai raises $8.7M Series A to connect vision LLMs to edge devices

Anglo-Dutch AI-on-camera pioneer Plumerai has bagged 8.7 million dollars in Series A funding. Led by new investors Partech and OTB Ventures, with support from Acclimate Ventures and existing backers, the round brings the total capital received to over 17 million. Based in London and Amsterdam, the startup aims to embed efficient yet powerful vision AI capabilities into “trillions” of edge devices.

Plumerai’s Tiny AI is already running on millions of cameras. It includes person, vehicle, animal and package detection, familiar face and stranger identification and multi-camera people tracking. According to the startup, its solution is faster, cheaper, private, runs on battery-powered cameras and uses inexpensive and off-the-shelf chips. With an initial focus on home security cameras – where it has won major customers such as Chamberlain – it’s now rapidly expanding into enterprise security, retail and other segments.

“We’re at an exciting point in time where powerful vision LLMs are now both accurate and cost-efficient enough to open up valuable new use cases,” says Plumerai founder and CEO Roeland Nusselder. “We’re going to make it possible for everyone to have their own AI security guard and assistant that never gets distracted, so they feel safer and calmer than ever before. It will warn you about a stranger in your backyard, a leaking water pipe or simply help you find your keys. And it’s not just for the home, but for retail, offices, warehouses, elderly care and more.”