Lindon Gao

Founder & CEO

Co-founder and CEO of Caper AI. Led the company from YC W16 through its $350M acquisition by Instacart. Later launched a new robotics venture.

Overview

Companies
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Roles
Founder & CEO

Companies

1 company
Caper AI $12M
Acquired Founder & CEO

Builds AI-powered smart shopping carts and checkout counters for grocery and retail stores. Using computer vision, sensor fusion, and machine learning trained on over 20 million product images, Caper's hardware lets shoppers scan items as they add them to the cart and self-checkout without a cashier.

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