ABOUT
OUTWARD
OUR STORY
Inventing the future of product photography
We’ve put our ingenuity to work for the home furnishings industry since 2012. Inspired by our deep experience working with Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Pottery Barn, West Elm, and other market-dominating brands, we wanted to bring the advantages of automated, AI-perfected product photography to manufacturers and retailers of all sizes.
Now, with Aperture Platform, it’s possible to produce a large volume of product images at the push of a button and easily publish in any format — from e-commerce to traditional media. And all at a fraction of the cost of traditional photography.
WHY APERTURE
The only solution built specifically for home furnishing businesses
The Outward formula for success is simple but difficult to replicate. We took our experience as the in-house solution for some of the world’s most well-known home furnishing brands, added machine learning and computer vision to perfect and replicate the things that made their product photography successful, and placed it in an all-in-one, automated platform that can be used by anyone, in any location. The results speak for themselves.
Up to 5x increased capture volume
Reduce time to market by as much as 3x
Our Founders
Clarence Chui
Clarence Chui is co-founder and CEO of Outward, Inc. With passion and purpose, Clarence has created a strong team-based culture that is as agile and adaptive as it is open to smart risk-taking. Under his leadership, the Outward team is pioneering the future of product photography.
Before starting Outward, Clarence was corporate senior vice president and general manager at the MEMS Technologies division of Qualcomm, Inc. He joined Qualcomm after it acquired the display technology startup, Iridigm, where he led the technology, engineering, and product development activities. Clarence helped grow the division at Qualcomm from a team of 35 to a 1,500+ person global operation.
He is a named inventor on over 135 issued U.S. utility patents in various areas including MEMS, displays, image processing, and color science. Clarence holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan, and both M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
An air fryer aficionado, Clarence transforms even the humblest of leftovers into new delights and loves nothing more than to share his tips for making a Popeye’s chicken sandwich even better than you thought possible.
Gaurav Sethi
Outward co-founder Gaurav Sethi leads sales, business development and product management for the company. With deep roots in engineering, Gaurav balances the precise with the pragmatic to the solutions Outward brings to market.
Gaurav has over two decades of high-tech product engineering, product management, and business development experience, serving in both engineering and business leadership roles at Dell, Compaq, NEC, MediaQ/Nvidia, and Qualcomm.
Defining and leading NEC’s U.S. display business strategy and product roadmap, Gaurav achieved unprecedented growth for the company. He also helped guide MediaQ in their ascent to becoming a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics acceleration chips for PDAs and mobile phones. Prior to co-founding and launching Outward, Gaurav served as the head of business development, sales, and product management for the QMT division at Qualcomm.
Gaurav holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston. Always after the perfect cup of coffee — dark roast, no cream, no sugar — Gaurav is known for his customer-first intuition and finesse in moving ideas from drawing board to reality.
Our Customers
