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Introduction
Early start
Work ethic
Canada
Avigilon
AWS
Apera AI
The Fabric podcast with Buddy Arnheim of Lobby Capital and Sina Afrooze, co-founder and CEO of Apera AI.
Hear Sina's entrepreneurship journey. An adventurous childhood in Iran, followed by a move to Canada and education in systems engineering. A class in entrepreneurship introduced him to high tech companies and leads to a massive success with high-definition surveillance pioneer Avigilon. From there, pioneering work at Amazon Web Services that shapes Alexa's voice and co-founding Apera AI to simplify automation.
Inside Apera AI
Leadership team
Apera AI is led by an experienced team from high-growth companies focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing. We are privately-owned and venture capital funded.
The company was founded by CEO Sina Afrooze and Armin Khatoonabadi. Sina is a technical expert in the AI / machine learning / deep learning space, with previous successes at Avigilon (sold for U.S.$1.2B to Motorola) and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Learn about our leadership team
4D Vision technology
Our core technology is called 4D Vision, which is built around proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies that control object recognition and robotic pose estimation and path planning.
4D Vision is run through robotic workcells using Apera Vue vision software. Vue is robot-agnostic and compatible with many of the leading robot brands. Vue gives robots new powers—significant faster decision-making and resilience to changes in light. By proving out applications in a simulation environment, customers have greater certainty of ROI from their automation investments.
Learn about 4D Vision technology
Working at Apera AI
Our culture and values
Apera AI’s culture is highly technical with a strong engineering team. We operate at the intersection of the manufacturing and AI/ML/DL spaces.
We’re experiencing rapid growth in a large, global addressable market. People who join Apera AI want to affect the path of the company and see their work implemented by the world’s leading manufacturers.
Hear from one of our customers
Linamar Corporation was facing production uncertainty due to labor shortages. They turned to ABB Robotics and Apera AI for three machine tending cells that could continuously operate, and focus their people on productivity and quality.