# Matt Rouif (slim)

> Matt Rouif is co-founder of Photoroom. Photoroom API on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Photoroom.

Matt Rouif is co-founder and CEO of Photoroom, an AI photo editing company for commerce from Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieurouif/
- X: https://x.com/matthieurouif

## What Matt builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [Eliot Andres](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/eliot-andres/), Co-founder, Photoroom

## Backed by

- [Y Combinator](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/y-combinator/)
- [Balderton Capital](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/balderton-capital/)
- [Adjacent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/adjacent/)
- [Aglaé Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/aglae-ventures/)
- [Kima Ventures](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/kima-ventures/)
- [FJ Labs](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/fj-labs/)
- [Meta](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/meta/)
- [Yann LeCun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/yann-lecun/)
- [Zehan Wang (formerly of Magic Pony and Twitter)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/investors/zehan-wang-formerly-of-magic-pony-and-twitter/)

## Questions

### Who is Matt Rouif?

Matt Rouif is co-founder and CEO of Photoroom, an AI photo editing company for commerce from Y Combinator's Summer 2020 batch.

### What does Photoroom make?

Anchor Terminal lists Photoroom API from Photoroom.

### Who has invested in Photoroom?

The 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).

### How are Matt's tools graded?

Photoroom API is graded C, 56.1 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/photoroom
- https://www.photoroom.com/
- https://www.photoroom.com/about

These 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.