

Uplift Labs
Uplift's AI technology trusted by professional sports teams and leagues tracks, analyzes, and improves human movement performance and health using only iPhones.
- Stage Product In Market
- Industry Artificial Intelligence
- Location Palo Alto, CA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded November 2017
- Employees 15
- Incorporation Type C-corp
- Website uplift.ai
Company Summary
Uplift was founded by the former president of Tesla Japan, a senior leader from GoPro’s Advanced Technology division, and an AI scientist from Carnegie Mellon. Our AI-powered platform delivers accurate 3D movement analysis to optimize performance and health. 65 clients include MLB and NBA teams, USA Track & Field, USTA, NCAA programs, and top sports academies. Backed by leading VCs and pro athletes such as Seth Curry, Marc Gasol, and Andrew Luck.
Team
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CEO & Co-founder
Sukemasa “Masa” Kabayama (CEO) has held various leadership roles. As President of Tesla Japan, he led the launch and market expansion for the Model S. Prior to Tesla, he was Director of Education at Apple Japan responsible for iPad education sales and marketing. Masa has a B.A. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania.
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CTO & Co-founder
Jonathan Wills (CTO) is a second time founder and an expert in applying computer vision at scale. His first startup, Lumific, was acquired by GoPro, where he managed their first Deep Learning Team building technology to understand movement in action sports videos. He is a two time Academy Award Nominee for Technical Achievement in Film Animation.
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Chief AI Officer & Co-founder
Rahul Rajan's (Chief AI Officer) expertise lies in building AI systems that are context-aware. While getting his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, he built one of the first proactive systems to estimate real-time task load in order to reduce driver distraction. He has published numerous papers on HCI and AI.
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