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Caper AI

Hardware · New York, US

AI smart shopping cart and checkout technology (Caper Cart, Caper Counter)

Founders

Lindon Gao (United States · ♂) — A former investment banker and e-commerce founder who built Caper's AI smart shopping carts to remove checkout friction, later selling to Instacart for $350M.
York Yang (United States · ♂) — Co-founded Caper AI to develop the computer-vision and deep-learning technology powering its cashierless smart carts.
Yilin Huang — Co-founded Caper AI, contributing to the development of its AI-powered automated checkout hardware.
Ahmed Beshry (♂) — Co-founded Caper AI, helping build the company's smart-cart and cashierless retail technology.

Date	Round	Amount
Oct 2021	Acquired by Instacart Instacart acquired Caper AI, the US AI smart-cart/checkout startup, for about $350M in cash and stock to unify in-store and online grocery shopping.	$350M

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