Voyant Photonics: Raises $15.4M in Series A Funding

Voyant Photonics Raises $15.4M in Series A Funding

• Voyant Photonics, a Long Island City, N.Y.-based company creating a new category of LiDAR sensors for machine perception, raised $15.4M in Series A funding
• The round was led by UP.Partners with participation from earlier investors LDV Capital and Contour Ventures
• Voyant is creating a new category of LiDAR sensors for machine perception for transportation, robotics, and monitoring application
• The company leverages commercially available and scalable semiconductor fabrication processes that combine thousands of optical and electrical components onto a single chip
• This enables the company to mass-produce a LiDAR system similar to how computer chips are made
• Its LiDAR system contains thousands of optical components fabricated on a single semiconductor chip