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title: "Caper: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Caper is a software technology company that develops and deploys AI-powered automated checkout devices as well as AI-based software applications for retailers, grocers, convenience stores and other general merchandising store formats. Caper AI was established in 2016 by Lindon Gao, York Yang, Yilin Huang and Ahmed Beshry."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-caper
type: Organization
wikidata: Q105605301
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper_AI
website: https://www.caper.ai
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
---

# Caper

> Caper is a software technology company that develops and deploys AI-powered automated checkout devices as well as AI-based software applications for retailers, grocers, convenience stores and other general merchandising store formats. Caper AI was established in 2016 by Lindon Gao, York Yang, Yilin Huang and Ahmed Beshry.

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## Facts

- Category: Artificial intelligence
- Status: subsidiary
- Website: https://www.caper.ai
- Also known as: Caper AI, Caper by Instacart

## Ownership

Parent: [Instacart](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-instacart.md)

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Caper, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-caper#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105605301, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper_AI

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