Nazim Kareemi was Appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Aquifi

Date of management change: February 15, 2011 

What Happened?

Palo Alto, CA-based Aquifi hired Nazim Kareemi as CEO.

 

About the Company

Aquifi develops scalable 3D computer vision solutions based on commodity hardware for accelerating and improving the accuracy of the manual processes gating logistics and manufacturing throughput. Aquifi builds its complete solutions on a proprietary RGB-D vision sensor, which is able to build full-color 3D models in seconds. Artificial intelligence software enables reasoning on shape, color and texture, and the 3D data vastly decrease training time. We`re developing solutions for: Logistics: - box and object dimensioning, real-time - cycle counting, determining number of boxes remaining in a pallet cube - package inspection and identification using deep learning Manufacturing: - real-time 3D model reconstruction - product identification and inspection - detect and identify anomalies, defects and configurations

 

About the Person

\r\n rn Nazim Kareemi is the CEO and a co-founder of Aquifi. Nazim has extensive experience in starting and growing successful VC backed emerging technology companies. Prior to Aquifi, he co-founded Mixamo, a VC backed startup in 2008 and was its CEO from inception until 2011. Mixamo provides software as a service to create 3D character animation. Before Mixamo, Nazim co-founded Canesta in 1999 as its CEO, and subsequently served as its chairman of the board. Canesta developed breakthrough CMOS 3D sensors, was granted over 50 patents, and built innovative products used in automotive, industrial, consumer and video game markets. At Canesta, he assembled an outstanding team and raised multiple rounds of VC funding. Canesta was acquired by Microsoft in 2010 and its technology is used in Xbox One Kinect. Prior to Canesta, Nazim was the founding CEO of PenWare, a VC funded mobile software startup. Under his leadership, PenWare attracted and retained some of the best people in the industry to develop award-winning software for mobile devices. PenWare acquired another company to successfully enter the retail point-of-sale terminal market and became public in 1996. Before starting PenWare, Nazim held engineering and management positions or consulted for companies such as Zilog, Xerox and Intel. He has a BS in electrical engineering from MIT and an MSEE and Engineer’s degrees from Stanford University.rn\r\n

 

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