We're excited to share our latest milestone: Squint has raised $13M in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital! Read more about what’s next in our latest blog post by our CEO, Devin Bhushan. https://lnkd.in/gfJ53Hes #industry40 #AdvancedManufacturing #AugmentedReality #Manufacturing #SequoiaCapital #MenloVentures #Innovation #Hiring #TechNews #SeriesA #Funding
Squint
Software Development
San Jose, CA 2,530 followers
Streamline data entry, generate custom procedures, and make every operator an expert.
About us
Squint is a mobile app that uses AI and AR to automate data entry, generate custom procedures, and make every operator an expert. Our story starts with manufacturing, a $7T industry that is the foundation of the world as we know it. Faced with a generational inflection point, the industry is in need of a new wave of technology that bridges the knowledge gap between the retiring and incoming workforce. The possibilities of Squint are endless. We believe our solution can extend beyond manufacturing, and we’re working on empowering workforces in industries like Energy, Healthcare, Hospitality, and more. Squint’s mission is to accelerate human potential by bringing digital knowledge into the real world.
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https://www.squint.ai/
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- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Jose, CA
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- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2021
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Employees at Squint
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Ian Small
Company leader, technology exec, board member, advisor, mentor
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Scott Burkey
Extended Reality and Digital Transformation in Manufacturing - XRforGood.com - Co-Host of "XR At Work" and Advisor at Squint
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Jeff Hansen
Venture Partner | Fractional Operating Partner | Start-up Advisor | Former Founder | Spatial Computing (fka 3D/XR/AR/VR) Gladiator | Former MSFT…
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Wyeth Goodenough
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It's an honor to join the ranks of incredible supply chain leaders who have received recognition from the NextGen Supply Chain organization. Squint CEO Devin Bhushan will accept the award and speak at the upcoming NextGen Supply Chain Conference in October in Chicago. We hope to see you there: https://lnkd.in/gY6Zydu
Exciting news: Squint has won the 2024 NextGen Supply Chain Startup Award 🏆🎉 The NextGen Supply Chain Conference awards this award to just one company each year, recognizing the supply chain startup that best represents the direction of our industry. It's incredibly encouraging to receive this award for the work we're doing to unlock human potential in manufacturing. Every day we're learning how our customers across industries are using Squint to break down silos on the shop floor, improve experiences for workers, and realize new efficiency gains. #ManufacturingIntelligence
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🚀 For our 23rd issue, we are thrilled to share an insight piece from our fellow community member Alexander Young. Alex is leading generative feature development at Squint and dives into how GenAI is revolutionizing industries by either expanding possibilities or reducing inefficiencies. Check out how Alex sees these two distinct approaches enhancing productivity and unlocking value across the enterprise. 💡 Read more 👇
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Squint software engineer Alexander Young recently shared insights on Generative AI strategies in The GenAI Collective Gen AI Community Newsletter. Here's a quick overview: Alex explores two distinct approaches to GenAI that are transforming industries: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: This approach opens up new opportunities, allowing users to tackle challenges previously beyond their reach. Examples include ChatGPT, Copy.ai, and DevinAI. 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀: This strategy focuses on streamlining existing processes and eliminating manual efforts. GitHubCopilot, Harvey, and our Squint platform exemplify this approach. 👩🏫 At Squint, we're applying the "reducing inefficiencies" strategy to the manufacturing sector. Our AI-powered tools help digitize work instructions, improve time to proficiency, and provide critical information to operators in real-time. 👩🏭 Alex emphasizes the importance of understanding customer problems when choosing between these approaches. For Squint, this means focusing on #ManufacturingIntelligence - ensuring the correct information is available at the right time in real-world, non-desk environments. 📖 Read the full article (link in the comments) to learn more about how these GenAI strategies drive productivity and unlock enterprise value across industries.
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Squint software engineer Alexander Young recently shared insights on Generative AI strategies in The GenAI Collective Gen AI Community Newsletter. Here's a quick overview: Alex explores two distinct approaches to GenAI that are transforming industries: 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀: This approach opens up new opportunities, allowing users to tackle challenges previously beyond their reach. Examples include ChatGPT, Copy.ai, and DevinAI. 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀: This strategy focuses on streamlining existing processes and eliminating manual efforts. GitHubCopilot, Harvey, and our Squint platform exemplify this approach. 👩🏫 At Squint, we're applying the "reducing inefficiencies" strategy to the manufacturing sector. Our AI-powered tools help digitize work instructions, improve time to proficiency, and provide critical information to operators in real-time. 👩🏭 Alex emphasizes the importance of understanding customer problems when choosing between these approaches. For Squint, this means focusing on #ManufacturingIntelligence - ensuring the correct information is available at the right time in real-world, non-desk environments. 📖 Read the full article (link in the comments) to learn more about how these GenAI strategies drive productivity and unlock enterprise value across industries.
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I'm increasingly hearing from industrial executives that they are growing their production internationally, for example in India and Mexico, to add resilience to their supply chains. However, supporting an increasingly global workforce takes work! Multilingual resources in an industry primarily reliant on tribal knowledge are challenging to produce. This is necessitating a move to digital-first platforms to capture and democratize this knowledge. This is an area where AI excels and unlocks a truly effective global workforce. For example, AI can enable interpreting technical documents in any language and making them accessible on any shop floor. I believe that equipped with AI, we can build up supply chain resiliency and flexibility like we’ve never seen before… the future of manufacturing is bright 🚀 #manufacturingintelligence
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Can on-the-job training be self-taught? Leading CPG brands such as Colgate-Palmolive believe so! Using Squint, manufacturers experience faster on-the-job completion times and see the data to enable further optimization and verification of procedures. Watch the full talk with Colgate's Senior Director of External Innovation from the #AugmentedEnterprise Summit earlier this year (link in the comments). #ManufacturingIntelligence BrainXchange
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Get ready for a world with AI-personalized companions that help humans understand audio-visual environments better and facilitate continuous learning 🔊 📷 👩🏫
AI and the future of work were strong themes at this year's #FortuneTech conference. Jeff Dean (Google) said three things that stood out and hit home for our work at Squint: 1. New models will be able to see and perceive the world around you, and the best improvements will be in audio-video integration (input and output). 2. AI tutoring will have an enormous impact on educational outcomes. Benjamin Bloom's "2 Sigma Problem" in 1984 showed that students who received one-on-one tutoring performed two standard deviations better than students who received conventional classroom instruction. 3. Part of deploying these systems in an educational environment is ensuring that the system understands how people learn best and that they master the material before continuing. By integrating learning into our daily lives seamlessly, #AI solutions can drive personal and professional advancement without feeling like traditional “active learning”. In my opinion, AI will facilitate continuous learning this way in educational and professional settings too, such as in #manufacturing. A big shoutout to Andrew Nusca and the team at Fortune for an excellent show and thanks to Tiffany and Menlo Ventures for introducing me to the event! #BrainstormTech
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What do you get when a clothing entrepreneur 👖 and a manufacturing operations innovator 👨🏭 sit next to each other at dinner? An exciting conversation about the future of work and unlocking human potential with AR + AI #BrainStormTech
Yesterday I sent next to Devin Bhushan of Squint at dinner. I was astonished to learn what Squint does to help manufacturing workers solve problems using AR. Often we talk about how technology and AI in particular might negatively impact our hands-on workforces. I believe the opposite. I believe it will enhance everything we do. #brainstormtech
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Since the early days at Squint, we’ve leaned on customers to help us identify the most impactful problems that need to be solved. This week I was on the road meeting some of our newest manufacturing customers. Here are some of the top themes I heard: 1. The shop floor is a melting pot! Employees come from all over the world and communicate best in many different languages. Technology in 2024 must be able to communicate in all these languages. 2. Retirement is leading to tribal knowledge walking out the door. One customer shared that over the last few months, their average tenure of employees shrank from 15 years to 13 years. Manufacturers across the US are anticipating a rapid decline in workforce tenure. 3. Continuous improvement continues to be a cornerstone of the best manufacturing cultures. Our customers want employees to have opinions and drive improvement. Products that capture feedback and product insights are critical to empower the workforce. This is an inflection point for manufacturers – those that fail to adopt technology will be outpaced by their peers. I’m so excited for Squint to continue to be a part of this transformation in manufacturing, and excited to share more learnings along the way!
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