Machine vision chip firm AlpsenTek raises $30 million
AlpsenTek (Shenzhen, China), a machine vision startup, has said it raised nearly 200 million yuan (about US$30 million) in a Series A round of financing at the beginning of 2022.
In March the company launched the Alpix-Pilatus platform, which it claimed is the first integrated event-based vision sensor that combines static and dynamic information (see Hybrid sensors combine full field and event-based imaging).
The round was led by Xunxing Investment, a subsidiary of mobile phone company Oppo and included several other investors including Lenovo Ventures, and Zero2IPO Ventures. It brings the amount raised by AlpsenTek to more than
Deng Jian, founder of AlpsenTek, said that this round of financing will be used to help the company address IoT field and for product development iterations.
Hybrid
AlpsenTek’s hybrid sensor approach combines the traditional CMOS image sensor (CIS) and the event-based sensor (EVS) at the pixel level. This provides large trade off space between high frame rate, high dynamic range, low power consumption, and low data redundancy. This can allow machines to “see” in better and smarter ways. Applications extend across IoT, mobile phones, security, automotive and other industries
Deng Jian said the company planned to achieve small-scale production of two integrated vision chips by the end of 2022, aiming at the high-end imaging and IoT fields of mobile terminals respectively.
According to Kuang Shan, COO of AlpsenTek, the R&D team in Shenzhen, Zurich, Beijing, and Nanjing will exceed 100 people before the end of 2022.
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