OnDeck AI is a vision infrastructure platform that uses Vision Language Models to let enterprises analyze video footage without training custom models, instantly finding any object, behavior, or event in any footage with no training data. The platform deploys in minutes rather than months, generalizes across diverse camera setups and environments, and understands qualitative behavior and event sequences. Applications span autonomous vessels, robotics research, security, port monitoring, fisheries electronic monitoring, and offshore energy operations. Founded in 2025 in Vancouver, OnDeck AI was part of YC's Summer 2025 batch and published a NeurIPS workshop paper showing its VLM methods beat traditional computer vision.
OnDeck AI
ActiveAnalyze any footage, without training a model
Total raised
$500K
1 round
Stage
Seed
Jan 2025
Team
1-10
since 2025
Pricing
—
Founded
2025
Vancouver, Canada
Agent-ready
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Vision Language Model-based footage analysis
No custom model training or training-data collection required
Search for any object, behavior, or event in video
Deployment in minutes rather than months
Generalization across cameras and environments
Understanding of qualitative behavior and event sequences
Applicability across maritime, robotics, and security domains
Vision infrastructure delivered as a platform
12/100
Early
MCP server
Public API
Webhooks
OAuth 2.0
SDKs
No public agent surfaces detected yet.
Jan 2025 Seed $500K ● Y Combinator
Capital network
$500K raised ·1 backer·10 network links
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- Does OnDeck AI require training data?
- No. It uses Vision Language Models to analyze footage and find objects, behaviors, or events without training a custom model or collecting training data.
- How long does deployment take?
- OnDeck AI is built to deploy in minutes rather than the months typically needed to build and train traditional computer-vision systems.
- What can it detect?
- It can find any object, behavior, or event in footage and understands qualitative behavior and event sequences across diverse camera setups and environments.
- What industries use OnDeck AI?
- Applications span autonomous vessels, robotics research, security, port monitoring, fisheries electronic monitoring, and offshore energy operations.
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