Voyant Photonics raises $15.4M Series A for chip-scale FMCW LiDAR

Dec 30, 2021 · Funding · Voyant Photonics · Perception

Voyant Photonics raised $15.4 million in Series A financing to move its silicon-photonics FMCW LiDAR from research into customer systems across robotics, mobility and industrial automation.

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  • UP.Partners led the round, with earlier investors LDV Capital and Contour Ventures participating.
  • Voyant made developer kits available to selected customers as it moved toward commercial delivery.
  • The platform integrates optical and electrical functions on a semiconductor chip to support scalable manufacturing.

Voyant Photonics builds chip-scale frequency-modulated continuous-wave LiDAR for robots, vehicles and industrial automation. The New York company integrates lasers, coherent detection and solid-state beam steering onto silicon-photonics modules intended for semiconductor manufacturing at scale.