Lyte raises $165M to build the sensor stack robots keep rebuilding

Maverick Silicon led the round at a $1.6B valuation, backing Apple and PrimeSense veterans Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati and Yuval Gerson.

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Primary source: Bloomberg Technology

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Lyte's valuation prices the Apple and PrimeSense veterans as infrastructure founders, betting that robot makers will buy an integrated perception stack instead of assembling their own.

A robotic arm precisely places a component into an advanced, glowing sensor array, with older modular parts blurred in the background.

Lyte CEO and co-founder Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati and Yuval Gerson, the former Apple engineers behind the company, have raised about $165 million at a $1.6 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported on September 2nd.…

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