Built by people who
understand factories

CountAI was founded in 2022 by engineers with deep experience in medical imaging at Philips, autonomous driving at Toyota, and hardware for textile and industrial automation. We build AI that works on the factory floor — not just in the lab.

Our mission

To be the AI intelligence layer of the world’s factories — starting in textiles, expanding into every manufacturing vertical where defects, waste, and inefficiency cost the planet.

Founding team

Engineers who have built, shipped, and deployed in real factories.

Harshavardhan Thirupathi

Co-Founder & CEO

IIT Madras alumnus (B.Tech & M.Tech). His work in imaging began with medical imaging at Philips Healthcare and continued with computer vision for autonomous driving at Toyota. Co-founded CountAI in 2022 and bootstrapped it into a 50+ member deep-tech team. Leads strategy, customers and growth.

Venkataramanan Chockalingam

Co-Founder & CTO

Architect of CountAI’s in-house hardware. Leads the design of our own industrial cameras and AI boards, cutting the power draw of the AI compute and camera system from about 700 W in the first prototype to around 10 W, while running inference above 100 frames per second. That platform now runs 5000+ cameras across 30+ factories in 7 countries, with some systems in continuous production for nearly three years.

A 50+ member team in Coimbatore across software and AI, data and validation, hardware design, production and field service. We’re hiring →

Powered by Intel® edge compute

In August 2026 CountAI won the Intel Edge AI Software Excellence Award from Intel India. CountAI is an official Intel® Edge AI Partner, featured on the Intel® Solutions Library. Every system runs on Intel-based edge hardware deployed on-premise — industrial-grade performance without cloud dependency.

On-Premise Processing

All AI inference runs locally on Intel edge devices. No data leaves the factory.

20ms Latency

Intel compute enables real-time defect detection faster than human reaction time.

Industrial Grade

Ruggedized hardware built for 24/7 factory operation in harsh conditions.

Global presence

Deployed in factories across three continents and expanding fast.

Active Markets

India Bangladesh Sri Lanka Türkiye Uzbekistan Peru Indonesia

Expanding To

United States United Kingdom Australia

For investors

Bootstrapped for four years — built on revenue from real factories
Large labeled defect dataset — built from live production on customer knitting floors
Proven in production — trusted by 30+ factories across 7 countries
OEM partnership discussions active
Knit ecosystem: Knit-i and Knit Connect (available now) → Knit Watch, Knit Brain, Knit AMR (in pilot)
$22B+ total addressable market across textile value chain
Official Intel® Edge AI Partner — featured on Intel's Solutions Library
Intel Edge AI Software Excellence Award — Intel India, August 2026
Stanford Seed 2026 cohort

Built by people whounderstand factories