Zendar

Zendar develops an RF-based perception stack for robots and autonomous vehicles. Its software combines distributed radar, vision fusion, pretrained models and embedded execution to provide scene understanding in difficult weather and lighting.

Facts

Segment: Perception
Country: United States
Founded: 2017
Website: https://www.zendar.io

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Timeline

2023-11-02 - Partnership - NXP invests in Zendar and collaborates on distributed-aperture radar - The collaboration combines Zendar's distributed-aperture radar processing with NXP's S32R processors and SAF8x radar hardware. The companies positioned the architecture as a route to higher-resolution sensing for increasingly automated vehicles. NXP also… - source: nxp.com

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Team

Vinayak Nagpal - CEO and Co-Founder - Leads Zendar's RF-perception strategy and company operations.
Jimmy Wang - CPO and Co-Founder - Leads product direction for Zendar's perception platform.
Sunil Thomas - Chief Business Officer - Leads commercial development for Zendar's perception platform.

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Relations

NXP Semiconductors - Distributed Aperture Radar Development Partner - Zendar and NXP collaborate on high-resolution distributed-aperture radar for automated vehicles.

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