https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/08/aperturedata-is-building-a-database-focussed-on-images-with-3m-seed/

When Vishakha Gupta and her co-founder Luis Remis were working together at Intel Labs in around 2016, they were charged with figuring out how to manage growing amounts of visual data (images). As the two founders dug into the problem working with academics and data scientists, they began an effort to build the proper infrastructure to deal with this growing amount of speciality data.

They eventually concluded that they needed a new database, one built to handle images and the specific requirements of data scientists working with them. They saw that data scientists were being forced to deal with multiple systems to process image data, and it was inefficient and time-consuming. They thought there had to be a better way, and five years ago while still working at Intel, the two started work on a system to build a database that could handle all of the work in a single system.