PhotoRoom

The techstack PhotoRoom uses to builtbuild its product includes Python, PyTorch, TRTorch, TensorFlow, C, WebAssembly, Kotlin, Swift, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Next.js, Google Cloud, Vercel, and Figma. PhotoRoom's headquarters are in Paris, and the company hires remotely in Europe,. They encourage employees to visit the Paris office at least once a month, and every three months, the company organizes an off-site meeting for its workforce.

PhotoRoom was founded in 2019 by Matthieu Rouif and Eliot Andres. Rouif previously worked for the video editing app, RePlay, which was acquired by GoPro in 2016 and renamed Quik. After working on image-editing products at GoPro, Rouif left the company and began working on PhotoRoom. He stated that the reason for starting PhotoRoom came from his experience editing a large number of images in his previous job:

I had to edit a large number of images and cut out the backgrounds. I wasn’t so good at using the editing tool so it took a lot of time and I felt it was such a waste to spend so long doing such simple work. The apps that were available at that time to cut out backgrounds all involved manually removing them. I thought, ‘if only there was an app that could do this automatically’automatically.'