Overshoot

Enable developers to build and run AI vision applications

Winter 2026ActiveB2BComputer VisionInfrastructureAISan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

Overshoot makes it easy for developers to build and run real-time vision applications. AI can see and understand the physical world. This unlocks new applications in physical security, safety, gaming, robotics and general consumer products. Soon, video agents will watch your home and your pet when you’re away. However, existing platforms make it painful for developers to build these real-time applications. Slow inference. Limited model availability. Break at scale. Overshoot solves this. Today, 300+ developers connect live video feeds to the largest collection of Vision Language Models with 3 lines of code. And get responses in less than 200ms. 10x faster than any existing inference platform. Zero infra headache. Our moat is focus. Image and Video are fundamentally different modalities from text. By focusing on them, we are able to make strong technical leaps from codec, streaming protocols to inference engines. Younes and Zakaria are cousins. Zakaria graduated top of his class at LSE and MIT, and later built low-latency high-throughput pricing systems (surge) at Uber and inference engines at Meta. He previously built and sold a software product and won several prominent AI hackathons. Younes was a founding engineer at Cosmonio (later acquired by Intel). He built a training and serving Computer Vision platform from scratch. He witnessed firsthand customers abandoning traditional Computer Vision because it lacked the “general” intelligence LLMs have today. Together we’ve shipped large-scale systems and know where they break.

Verdict

High Signal

Market Opportunity

Real-time vision APIs sit at the intersection of security, robotics, industrial safety, and consumer AI — all fast-growing B2B verticals with multi-billion dollar TAMs. The ICP is developers/enterprises needing live video + LLM intelligence, which is a clearly emerging and underserved category. Usage-based API pricing is a proven monetization model in this space.

High Signal

Founder Signal

Zakaria has ~7 years combined at Uber (Senior Applied Scientist on surge pricing, 4.5 yrs) and Meta AI (Senior SWE on AI inference, 1 yr), MIT master's, LSE top 1% — plus a prior software product exit and 3 hackathon wins. Younes spent 3.5 years at Intel as an AI Frameworks Engineer shipping the GETi ML execution engine (5-10x concurrency gains, 75% cost reduction), and was an early CV/ML engineer at Cosmonio (acquired by Intel). Together they cover infra, inference, and CV deeply.

Medium Signal

Competition

Direct competitors include Roboflow (CV inference platform), Google Video Intelligence API, AWS Rekognition Video, and general inference providers like Together AI or Fireworks AI. Overshoot's claimed 10x latency advantage and video-specific codec/streaming optimizations are a meaningful differentiator if real, but the moat is not yet proprietary data or hardware — it's engineering focus, which can be replicated by well-resourced incumbents.

Medium Signal

Product

Live playground, API docs, and a clean code snippet showing 3-line integration are visible. Claims 300+ developers and sub-200ms inference (10x faster than competitors), but no named customer logos, revenue figures, or testimonials are present to corroborate these numbers.

OverallA Tier

Two technical co-founders with deep, directly relevant infrastructure experience at Uber and Meta AI — this is not a team guessing at the problem. The 300-developer claim and sub-200ms latency benchmark are strong early signals if accurate, and the product already has docs, a playground, and a working API. The biggest risk is defensibility: latency advantages erode as general inference platforms (Fireworks, Together, Google) optimize for video, and the company needs to lock in enterprise customers or accumulate proprietary video-model optimizations before that happens. No press coverage and no named customers yet means this is still pre-traction validation phase despite the promising setup.

Active Founders

Younes El hjouji

Founder

Ex-Intel Computer Vision AI Frameworks Engineer. CTO of Overshoot. Building the platform for realtime vision powered by LLMs.

Zakaria El hjouji

Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Overshoot. Prior to this, Zakaria spent 7 years building pricing algorithms at Uber and writing GPU kernels at Meta AI. Won 3 prominent AI hackathons. Built and sold a software product while in grad school at MIT. He graduated top of his class at the London School of Economics. Likes to nerd out on anything inference and VLM / video understanding.

Overshoot

TierA Tier

BatchWinter 2026

Team Size2

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA