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AUSTIN, Texas, May 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zapdos Labs, an AI software company headquartered in Austin, Texas, with an office in Singapore, has closed a $500,000 USD pre-seed funding round to expand its AI Video Agent platform for manufacturers. The company's platform connects to a factory's existing CCTV cameras, reads the facility's own safety manuals to configure itself, and monitors live feeds in real time to detect safety violations and near-misses before accidents occur, all within approximately two days of deployment.

Until recently, computer vision systems required months of labeled training data and large technical teams for every use case, pricing tier 2 and tier 3 plants out of real-time monitoring entirely. Today's VLMs can read a factory's safety manual the same way they read any other document, then apply it directly to live video feeds with no manual labeling required. That capability enables Zapdos' platform to deploy in days rather than months, and on existing camera infrastructure at a price point mid-market manufacturers can absorb.

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