Anchovi Labs
A platform to organize, browse and share personal photos.
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Anchovi Labs, as it was originally founded in 2011, developed software to help people organize, browse, and share their personal photo collections. The company, established by Peter Welinder, Serge Belongie, and Boris Babenko, utilized artificial intelligence algorithms to classify images, enabling users to automatically tag and organize photos and videos based on their visual content. Serge Belongie is a professor of computer science at Cornell Tech with research interests in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He co-founded other companies, including Digital Persona and Orpix.
The original Anchovi Labs secured $15,000 in a seed funding round on June 11, 2012, with Highland Capital Partners as an investor. Shortly after, on September 20, 2012, the company was acquired by Dropbox.
More recently, the "Anchovi" brand has been relaunched by Dot Foods, following its acquisition of Morsum, a food industry data and AI company, in 2022. This new iteration of Anchovi operates as a foodservice ecommerce platform. It provides a white-label solution for distributors, allowing them to brand the online storefront with their own name and logo. The platform is designed to empower foodservice distributors to establish online ordering capabilities without needing extensive IT resources. Anchovi integrates with any Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application, facilitating data transfer and streamlining the launch of online ordering platforms, with onboarding possible in as little as two weeks. The business model is transaction-based; distributors do not pay for the ERP integration process but begin payments once their customers start transacting on the platform.
Keywords: foodservice ecommerce, white-label solution, online ordering platform, ERP integration, food industry data, AI, machine learning, distributor tools, Dot Foods, photo organization, computer vision, image recognition, Dropbox acquisition, Morsum acquisition, Peter Welinder, Serge Belongie, Boris Babenko, food redistribution, supply chain technology, digital ordering