Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now Ouster, a San Francisco-based lidar startup that launched out of stealth in December 2017, today secured $ 42 million in funding, bringing its total raised to $ 140 million. Cofounder and CEO Angus Pacala says the fresh capital will be …
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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now While many of Apple’s investments in innovative technologies pay off, some just don’t: Think back to the “tremendous amount” of money and engineering time it spent on force-sensitive screens, which are now in the process of disappearing from Apple Watches and iPhones, …
Read More »SiLC Technologies raises $12 million for long-range lidar sensors
SiLC Technologies, a silicon photonics startup specializing in photonic sensor and 3D imaging applications, today announced that it has closed a $ 12 million seed financing round. Founder and CEO Mehdi Asghari says that it’ll allow the company to refine its 4D+ Vision Chip lidar sensor, which it claims exceeds …
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