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  "markdown": "Co-founder, Photoroom.\n\nEliot Andres co-founded Photoroom, an AI photo editing company for commerce, with Matt Rouif and took it through Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch. Photoroom describes him as an engineer who saw the potential of AI early. Before Photoroom he spent three years in computer vision and deep learning and worked on five mobile apps.\n\n- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliotandres/\n- X: https://x.com/EliotAndres\n\n## What Eliot builds\n\n- [Photoroom API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/photoroom.md), graded C, 56.1/100, in Programmatic asset production. Photoroom's API edits product photos over HTTP. One call removes a background, adds a shadow or generated background, relights, expands, resizes or fills a template, and returns the image. A hosted MCP server wraps the same API. Co-founder, Photoroom, researched 2026-10-26.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [Matt Rouif](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/matt-rouif/), Co-founder, Photoroom\n\n## Backed by\n\n- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)\n- [Balderton Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/balderton-capital/)\n- [Adjacent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adjacent/)\n- [Aglaé Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aglae-ventures/)\n- [Kima Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kima-ventures/)\n- [FJ Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fj-labs/)\n- [Meta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meta/)\n- [Yann LeCun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yann-lecun/)\n- [Zehan Wang (formerly of Magic Pony and Twitter)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zehan-wang-formerly-of-magic-pony-and-twitter/)\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Eliot Andres?\n\nEliot Andres co-founded Photoroom, an AI photo editing company for commerce, with Matt Rouif and took it through Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch. Photoroom describes him as an engineer who saw the potential of AI early. Before Photoroom he spent three years in computer vision and deep learning and worked on five mobile apps.\n\n### What does Photoroom make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Photoroom API from Photoroom. Photoroom's API edits product photos over HTTP. One call removes a background, adds a shadow or generated background, relights, expands, resizes or fills a template, and returns the image. A hosted MCP server wraps the same API.\n\n### Who has invested in Photoroom?\n\nThe sources our research read name Y Combinator, Balderton Capital, Adjacent, Aglaé Ventures, Kima Ventures, FJ Labs, Meta, Yann LeCun and Zehan Wang (formerly of Magic Pony and Twitter).\n\n### How are Eliot's tools graded?\n\nPhotoroom API is graded C, 56.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/photoroom\n- https://www.photoroom.com/\n- https://www.photoroom.com/about\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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