Lyte

A US robot-perception company founded by veterans of Apple's Face ID team.

Lyte was founded in Silicon Valley, California in 2021; founders Alexander Shpunt, Arman Hajati, and Yuval Gerson had worked on Apple's Face ID, and the team also has roots in PrimeSense, the company behind Microsoft's Kinect depth camera. It builds a perception foundation for robots: combining its own chips, multimodal sensors, and spatial-understanding software into a single platform, LyteVision, so robot makers don't have to piece together cameras, radar, and algorithms themselves. It came out of stealth in January 2026 with $107 million raised across Series A and B, winning a CES 2026 Best Innovation award in robotics; in September it closed a $165 million Series C led by Maverick Silicon at a $1.6 billion post-money valuation, and it is already shipping to customers in inspection, logistics, and manufacturing.

ExampleAn inspection-robot company installs a LyteVision module directly and gets fused depth and obstacle information for navigation, skipping the work of calibrating and fusing multiple sensors itself.

Also called

Lyte AI

Related

Multi-Sensor Fusion · Depth Camera · LiDAR · Exteroception · Physical AI

Sources

Lyte raises $165M to help robots better sense their surroundings（The Robot Report）
Lyte Emerges from Stealth with $107M（The AI Insider, 2026-01-06）
Lyte, founded by Apple's Face ID engineers, raises $165M at $1.6B（Tech Funding News）

As of

2026-09