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Zendar

Next generation radar technologies

21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cars
  • Automation
  • Science
Suite 216, 2560 Ninth St., Berkeley 94710, CA, USA

Company mission

To ensure the future of autonomy is both safe and accessible to all.

Top investors

0% employee growth in 12 months

Otta's take

Xav Kearney headshot

Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Radar technology presents itself as a promising solution for autonomous vehicles and robots to see the obstacles around them. Yet, existing sensors are too low-resolution and struggle under challenging conditions. Solutions are beginning to arise for self-driving cars, but tackling challenges for fully autonomous robotics is significantly more difficult.

Zendar develops software-driven radar technology that augments the capability of radar sensors, leveraging AI to boost signal analysis to a resolution that is ten times higher. Whilst the company's initial focus is on providing its radar solutions for its automobile partnership with Hyundai, it is also developing hardware and software setups for automated agricultural machinery, robotics, and trucking.

One of Zendar's biggest challenges will be the competition it faces from similar high-resolution startups such as Oculii. Despite this serious competition, Zendar stands out due to its semi-supervised machine-learning approach to radar, a technique that has worked excellently for aerial surveillance and has yet to be implemented into street-level hardware.

Benefits

  • Performance based Bonus
  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Equity
  • Hybrid work model
  • Daily catered lunch and stocked fridge

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Jan 2022

$4m

SERIES B

Jun 2021

$8m

EARLY VC

$26.8m

Total funding

This company has top investors

Founders

Previously a Senior Researcher for Nokia and also co-founded Vernox in 2013.

Experienced as Senior Research Scientist for earthmine Inc., and Lead Research Engineer for HERE Technologies.