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NEWS COVERAGESeptember 2, 2026

Lyte, Founded by Ex-Apple Face ID Engineers, Triples Valuation to $1.6 Billion

Bloomberg covers Lyte's $165 million Series C round led by Maverick Silicon, bringing the physical AI perception startup's valuation to $1.6 billion.

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NEWS COVERAGESeptember 2, 2026

Lyte Raises $165M at $1.6B Valuation to Bring Accurate Perception to Robots

SiliconANGLE on the LyteVision™ platform and why physical AI has a sensing problem before it has a model problem.

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PRESS RELEASESeptember 2, 2026

Lyte Raises $165 Million Series C Led by Maverick Silicon to Give Robots a Trustworthy View of the World

The round values Lyte at $1.6 billion post-money as the company enters production. Andrew Homan of Maverick Silicon joins the board.

BLOGJune 21, 2026

Built for Safe Robots, From the Silicon Up

Lyte joins the NVIDIA Halos ecosystem, bringing LyteVision, its real-time multimodal perception platform, to help robots understand and operate safely in shared spaces.

BLOGJune 2, 2026

Scan to SimReady: How Lyte Closes the Loop from Sensor to USD

How Lyte turns every scan into an indexed, SimReady USD asset — closing the loop from multimodal sensor capture to compounding digital twin libraries.

PRESS RELEASEMarch 16, 2026

Lyte Collaborates with NVIDIA to Generate Digital Twins at the Moment of Perception using Holoscan Bridge

Lyte announces collaboration with NVIDIA to push the boundaries of physical AI — using Holoscan Sensor Bridge to convert robot perception into digital twins that power simulation, training, and intelligent action in real time. Announced at NVIDIA GTC 2026.

PRESS RELEASEJanuary 5, 2026

Lyte Emerges from Stealth with $107 Million to Build the Perception Foundation for Physical AI

Founding team behind Apple Face ID and Microsoft Kinect launches unified sensing platform for robotics. Raises an aggregate of $107M from prominent investors. Wins Best of Innovation in Robotics and Honoree in Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility at CES 2026.

BLOGJanuary 5, 2026

Lyte Is Live

Today, we're introducing Lyte. Over the past four years in stealth, our biggest accomplishment hasn't been a single milestone; it's been assembling an exceptional team and doing the hard work required to build a real perception platform for Physical AI.

BLOGJanuary 5, 2026

Seeing the Future: How the Team Behind Kinect and Face ID Is Evolving Perception for Physical AI

In 2005, Alexander Shpunt co-founded PrimeSense to work on a problem that would define the next two decades of his life: how do you teach a machine to see depth? Not capture images. See.