Prophesee

Prophesee develops event-based vision sensors, AI processing and software for industrial, mobile, robotics and defense perception. In June 2026 it launched Mantara for drone detection and raised EUR 20 million to scale dual-use full-stack sensing.

Facts

Segment: Vision
Country: France
Website: https://www.prophesee.ai/

Funding

2026-06-15 - Funding - $23.1M - Prophesee raises €20M for dual-use event-based vision scale-up - Prophesee raised €20 million led by Critical Path Ventures to scale its dual-use event-based vision strategy. - source: prophesee.ai

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Investors

Critical Path Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-06-15

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Market context

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Timeline

2026-06-15 - Product Launch - Prophesee launches Mantara event-based drone detection system - Mantara is built around event cameras, embedded AI processing and drone detection and tracking. The launch also introduced Hearth, a software platform purpose-built for event-based sensors. The product gives Prophesee a concrete offering for unmanned… - source: prophesee.ai
2026-01-07 - Product Launch - Prophesee highlights first commercial IMX636 event-based vision camera module - CenturyArks launched a commercial event-based vision camera module using the Sony-Prophesee IMX636 sensor. The module provided compact, low-latency event-based vision for robotics, automotive and AGV applications. The launch moved Prophesee's Sony… - source: prophesee.ai
2025-05-20 - Partnership - Prophesee and Tobii partner on event-based eye tracking - Prophesee and Tobii partnered to develop next-generation event-based eye-tracking technology. The collaboration combined Prophesee's event-based vision sensors with Tobii's eye-tracking expertise for AR, VR and smart-eyewear systems. The project extended… - source: prophesee.ai

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Team

Jean Ferré - Chief Executive Officer - He leads Prophesee during its shift toward product-centric commercialization in security, defense, aerospace and industrial automation.
Luca Verre - Co-Founder and former CEO - He co-founded the event-based vision company whose sensing stack is used across robotics and machine-vision markets.

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