AI & ML · Munich
Aperture
Vision models for factory-floor inspection.
- Stage
- Seed
- Founded
- Founded 2023
- First invested
- We invested 2024
- Team
- 17 people
- Board
- Board seat
- Total raised
- $3.5M
- Current stage
- Seed
- Team
- 17
- Founded
- 2023
What they build
The product, in plain terms
Aperture builds vision models for factory-floor inspection. The company started in Munich in 2023. We backed it at seed and have worked with the team through Seed.
- 01
A model layer trained on the customer's own history of decisions, not a general base model with a prompt wrapped around it.
- 02
An evaluation harness that runs before anything ships, so the team can prove a change made the output better rather than different.
- 03
Human review built into the product from the start, because the first buyers will not accept an unsupervised system.
Where it stands
Numbers the team watches
Reported by the company at its most recent board meeting. We publish what founders are comfortable publishing and nothing more.
- Tasks handled monthly
- 401
- Accepted without review
- 90%
- Median time saved
- 2 weeks
Why we invested
The note from the first meeting
“We met Aperture in 2024, back when most buyers had already been burned by a pilot that never left the pilot. Two other firms passed in the same month. We thought they were solving for the wrong risk, and we were happy to be alone on the cap table for a while.”
- Went from prototype to paid pilot in a single quarter.
- Signed its first design partner before the program ended.
- Shipped the enterprise tier without hiring a single sales engineer.
Founders
Who is building it
Both founders were in the room the day we wrote the check, and both still run the company.
Yuna Okada
Co-founder and CEO
Spent a decade on the operations side of this industry before rebuilding the software for it.
Diego Costa
Co-founder and CTO
Maintains one of the open source libraries the category is built on.
Timeline
How it has gone
The version we would give another investor, including the years where nothing looked like progress.
- 2023
Founded
Yuna Okada and Diego Costa start Aperture in Munich around a single wedge: vision models for factory-floor inspection.
- 2024
We invested
We wrote the seed check and took a board seat. Sofia Ramos has worked with the team ever since.
- 2025
Paid customers
Contracts replaced pilots, and the company stopped selling a roadmap and started selling a product.
- 2026
Seed round
Raised at $22M, led by an investor we introduced during diligence. We took our full pro rata.
- 2026
Where it stands
17 people, selling in more markets than it started in, still run by the two people who wrote the first version.
Alongside us
Co-investors
We share rounds with people we would want on our own cap table.
- Boldstart
- Lux Capital
- Matrix
- Uncork Capital
Working here
Open roles
Aperture is hiring in these areas. Mention us and the note gets to the founders directly.
- Forward deployed engineering
- Enterprise sales
- Applied research
Building something next to Aperture?
We are usually early to a category and happy to be early again. Send us the short version.