Lyte Raises $165 Million Series C At $1.6 Billion Valuation For Physical AI Perception Platform

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    "excerpt": "Lyte has raised $165 million in Series C funding led by Maverick Silicon , valuing the physical AI perception company at $1.6 billion post-money . The round also included Fidelity Management & Research Company, which led Lyte’s Series B, along with Atreides Management, Key1 Capital, Ora Global, formerly Exor Ventures, and additional existing and new investors. The financing brings Lyte’s total capital raised since its founding in 2021 to $272 million . As part of the financing, Andrew Homan, Managing Partner at Maverick Silicon, has joined Lyte’s Board of Directors . Lyte develops custom silicon, multimodal sensors and spatial software that help robots determine where they are and what is moving around them. The company said it has developed and owns the full perception stack from the transistor level through the spatial data produced for robotic systems. Since emerging from stealth in January 2026, Lyte has entered production and begun shipping to robotics customers across inspection, logistics and manufacturing. Its LyteVision perception platform was named CES 2026 Best of Innovation in Robotics. Lyte was founded by former Apple and PrimeSense engineers whose earlier work helped bring 3D perception technology to Microsoft Kinect and later contributed to technologies underlying Face ID. LyteVision combines 4D coherent vision, high-resolution imaging and inertial sensing on a...",
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