Americans drive over 5 trillion miles a year, more than 500 billion of them recorded. Buried in that footage is the next frontier of machine intelligence. At NomadicML, we’re building the platform that unlocks it.
Our Vision-Language Models (VLMs) act as the new “hydraulic mining” for video, transforming raw footage into structured intelligence that powers real-world autonomy and robotics. We partner with industry leaders across self-driving, robotics, and industrial automation, including Zoox, Qualcomm, Boston Dynamics, and Mitsubishi Electric, to mine insights from petabytes of data that were once unusable.
We’ve grown from zero to $508K ARR in five months at 90% gross margins, with $3M in contracted expansions. We’re backed by Pear VC, BAG VC, and Scott Wu (CEO of Cognition), with angels from Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and OpenAI.
NomadicML was founded by Mustafa Bal and Varun Krishnan, who met at Harvard University while studying Computer Science. Our team has built mission-critical AI systems at Snowflake, Lyft, Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM Research, holds top-tier publications at conferences like CVPR, and moves with the speed and clarity of a startup obsessed with impact.