autoRetouch announced a seed round of €3.2 million backed by Breuninger

autoRetouch, a Stuttgart, Germany-based software developer of an AI-powered platform for bulk-processing fashion product images online, announced completing a funding round of €3.2 million ($3.9M).

The money was raised from investors from Germany, including the fashion retailer Breuninger, which led the other backers.

autoRetouch, founded in 2020 by CEO Alex Ciorapciu, developed a software tool that uses AI to perform image editing operations, such as removing background or retouching skin. The tool allows editing and enables any stakeholder (whether it’s the image editor, the retailer or brand) to get great product images faster, easier and cheaper than ever before while retaining full creative control.

Advancements in computer vision and an outstanding internal R&D team have produced results that were unthinkable even as recently as last year in a very short amount of time. Because autoRetouch’s complex machine learning models are available through simple drag and drop, everyone can now take advantage of computer vision technology. As such, access to professional image editing, previously only available to people well versed in Photoshop, is democratized.