Navneet Dalal

Navneet Dalal, Angel investor in Mountain View is an active investor based in Mountain View, California. This profile covers what Navneet Dalal backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Dr. Navneet Dalal is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Matic. Dr. Dalal is a Research Scientist in Google. Previously, he Co-Founded Flutter(Bot Square) and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this, he was the cofounder of Flutter where we enabled hand gesture detection via built-in webcams in TVs, tablets and phones. Flutter app became number one app on the Mac App Store in 2012 in 72 countries and was picked by Apple in 2012 as one of the best app of the year. It was one of the first CA/AI based edge-device application and a rare computer-vision-based-consumer-software to have 4.8 stars (out of 5) rating. Flutter was acquired by Google in 2013 after Google quantitatively verified that Flutter algorithms beat the algorithms that Google had inside. Inside Google, he was involved with various projects at Google AI and at Nest. At Nest, he led algorithms team for Nest Cams and launched many CV based features with Nest Cam Outdoor, IQs, and Hello doorbell before leaving to start Matician. He is perhaps best known for "Histogram of Oriented Gradient" features (a joint work with Bill Triggs and published in CVPR 2005) as way to encode images and videos enabling machines to classify and locate objects in image. This paper improved the then state-of-art by 100-1000x and became the de-facto standard for almost a decade. It has 25K+ citations. The work was done at INRIA Grenoble as part of my PhD thesis "Finding People in Images and Video Sequences" (coadvised by Bill Triggs and Cordelia Schmid).

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