# Movidius: robotics company

Canonical ID: `57a93ee4-97a5-4200-8e48-d4932902bd04`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Remi El-Ouazzane (from 2013)
- **Total funding raised:** ~$90 million (2006-2016)
- **Key product:** Myriad 2 / Myriad X VPU (vision processing unit)
- **Key customers:** Google (Project Tango), DJI (Phantom 4, Mavic Pro, Spark), Lenovo, FLIR
- **Hero image candidate:** https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/37/MA2485.jpg (source: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA)

- **Slug:** movidius
- **Status:** acquired (by Intel, 2016)
- **Founded:** 2005
- **HQ:** San Mateo, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 456000000

## Models

- [Movidius Myriad 2](/models/movidius-myriad-2.md) (other) (id: `27cbd47c-88c6-4016-8498-e4bf4bc48a9e`)

## Current leadership (3)

- [Remi El-Ouazzane](/people/remi-el-ouazzane.md) CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Sean Mitchell](/people/sean-mitchell.md) Co-founder & Former CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [David Moloney](/people/david-moloney.md) Co-founder & CTO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (2)

- [Sean Mitchell](/people/sean-mitchell.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_
- [David Moloney](/people/david-moloney.md) (cofounder) _no longer at company_

## Partnerships (2)

- [Movidius x Google (Project Tango)](/partnerships/movidius-x-google-project-tango.md) with Google _technology_ (concluded)
- [Movidius x DJI](/partnerships/movidius-x-dji.md) with DJI _technology_ (concluded)

## Acquisitions (1)

- [acquired by Intel Corporation](/acquisitions/intel-acquires-movidius-2016.md) _full acquisition_ (2016-09-06)

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Movidius?

Movidius was a fabless semiconductor company co-founded in 2005 in Dublin, Ireland, that designed low-power vision processing unit (VPU) chips for computer vision and deep learning at the edge. Its Myriad 2 and Myriad X VPUs powered obstacle avoidance in [DJI](/companies/dji) drones including the Phantom 4, Mavic Pro, and Spark, as well as Google's Project Tango and Intel's RealSense platform. The company raised approximately $90 million in venture funding before being acquired by [Intel](https://intel.com) for approximately $400 million in September 2016, and its technology continues as the Intel Movidius VPU product line.

### What does Movidius make?

Movidius has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Movidius Myriad 2 (Movidius builds physical robots).

### Is Movidius publicly traded?

Movidius is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Intel on the DEPLOY registry.

### Who competes with Movidius?

On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to Movidius building in the same form factors include DJI, Boston Dynamics, ATI Industrial Automation, August Robotics.

### Where is Movidius headquartered?

Movidius is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA.

### How much funding has Movidius raised?

Movidius has raised approximately $456M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Movidius operate robots?

Movidius is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Movidius a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Movidius ranks in roughly the top 39% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Movidius founded?

Movidius was founded in 2005.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.intel.com/

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