V7 (company)

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V7 Ltd.
V7 Labs
Company typePrivate limited company
Industry Computer Software
PredecessorAipoly
Founded2018;7 years ago (2018) in London, United Kingdom
Founder
  • Alberto Rizzoli
  • Simon Edwardsson
Headquarters
London
,
United Kingdom
Products
  • V7 Darwin
  • V7 Go
Website www.v7labs.com

V7 Labs (legally V7 Ltd) is a London-based software company that develops tools for annotating visual data and automating document-based workflows using large language models. [1] [2] [3] The company originated as Aipoly, founded in San Francisco in 2015, and rebranded as V7 after relocating to London in 2018. [4] [5]

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History

The firm launched as Aipoly in 2015, releasing a mobile application that generated audio descriptions of objects for visually impaired users and later developing computer-vision systems for retail. [4] [6] In 2018 it moved to London and adopted the name V7. [4] [6]

The company's Darwin platform includes image-annotation tools and model-training workflows incorporating active learning. [7] In 2022 the company released a Chrome extension intended to detect AI-generated profile images. [1] [8] [9]

In April 2024 V7 introduced V7 Go, a platform for automating document and office workflows using large language models. Its users uploads files and it issues natural-language instructions, with applications such as invoice processing and document summarization. [2] [5] [10]

Operations

V7’s software has been deployed in medical imaging and related healthcare workflows, including dataset creation and annotation for training models to identify findings on diagnostic scans and support DICOM-based pipelines. [3] [6] [11] It's also used in pharmaceutical manufacturing, such as computer-vision systems for visual inspection tasks on production lines. [3] [4]

Technology

V7's applications are used in document processing, where its software automates steps such as information extraction, invoice processing, and document summarization through large language models and multi-step workflows. [5] [2] [10] These applications have also been deployed for legal document review, including extracting structured data from contracts and due-diligence materials. [12]

V7 technology is also used in agricultural robotics, where the platform supports dataset creation and model iteration for crop identification tasks. [13]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 Kahn, Jeremy (Apr 10, 2024). "London AI firm V7 expands from image data labeling into workplace automation". Fortune.
  3. 1 2 3 Kahn, Jeremy (Nov 29, 2022). "In computer vision: it's the best on the worst that counts". Fortune.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Merck KGaA partners start-up for scientific image-tagging software". The Malaysian Reserve. Dec 6, 2018.
  5. 1 2 3 Kelly, Eanna; Sinclair, Jonathan (Jun 25, 2024). "London GenAI company V7 tops Sifted's B2B SaaS Rising 100 ranking". Sifted.
  6. 1 2 3 O'Hear, Steve (Dec 18, 2020). "V7 Labs raises $3M to help AI teams 'automate' training data workflows". TechCrunch.
  7. Bhattacharyya, Jayita (Nov 30, 2020). "V7 Darwin Automated Image Annotation". Analytics India Mag.
  8. "This Google Chrome Extension Can Identify Fake Profile Photo! Know How to Use". Hindustan Times. Aug 22, 2022.
  9. Kamel, Heirul (Mar 21, 2022). "Software Company Releases Chrome Extension That Detects AI-Generated Profile Pictures". Lowyat.net.
  10. 1 2 "Product Walk Through: V7 Go – GenAI Legal Data Extraction". Artificial Lawyer. Nov 5, 2024.
  11. Lunden, Ingrid (Nov 28, 2022). "V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models". TechCrunch.
  12. "Pinsent Masons Deploys 'V7 Go' GenAI Platform". Artificial Lawyer. Aug 5, 2024.
  13. Kiosow, Brooklyn (May 27, 2022). "The AI-powered Robots Addressing Current, Future Industry Challenges". Thomasnet.