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Aeva

Sensory perception technology for all devices

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201-500 employees
  • B2B
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise
  • Automation
Mountain View, CA

Company mission

To enable all devices to navigate the world autonomously.

Top investors

5% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

The development of self-driving cars presents enormous opportunities for transportation, shipping, and ride-hailing industries, but getting these cars to run flawlessly is difficult. Cameras and radar sensors are used to detect obstacles for safe automated driving, but existing technology does not analyze enough data to meet these expectations.

Aeva builds sensory perception technology that maps the physical world around a vehicle on a granular basis to contribute towards the development of fully self-driving cars. The sensory system relies on what the company describes as being the world’s first 4D LiDAR-on-Chip. This technology comprises of sensors that detect objects and events up to 300m away, recognize velocity-per-pixel, and are immune to interference from neighboring frequencies.

Companies such as Tesla are already developing successful and safe fully self-driving software for their cars, but Aeva's approach to LiDar presents some serious competition to the existing camera-based technology. Despite further competition from Luminar and Velodyne, Aeva remains unique due to the condensed presentation of their technology into a tiny chip.

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Benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • 401k plan
  • Vision and dental insurance
  • Company equity
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Funding (2 rounds)

Oct 2018

$45m

SERIES A

Jan 2017

$3.5m

SEED

Total funding: $48.5m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Soroush Salehian

(Co-founder)

Soroush studied Mechanical Engineering at Stanford before founding BlueLibris in June 2010. They then spent almost 5 years as an Apple Product Development Manager before co-founding Aeva in January 2017.

Mina Rezk

(Co-founder)

Having studied for a Bachelor's and Master's at George Mason University in Electrical Engineering, Mina spent 11 years as a Nikon Metrology Hardware Development Manager. They spent 2 years in Sensing Engineering at Apple before founding Aeva with Soroush in 2017.

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