Lyte, a company specializing in physical AI perception, has today revealed a $165 million Series C funding round spearheaded by Maverick Silicon. The latest funding round values Lyte at $1.6 billion after investment.

Lyte creates bespoke silicon, multimodal sensors, and spatial software that enable robots to detect their location and the movement in their surroundings, a technology stack the company has developed and fully owns from the transistor level. Since revealing its operations in January 2026, Lyte has begun production and is delivering to top robotics clients in the inspection, logistics, and manufacturing sectors. LyteVision™, the perception platform from the company, received the CES 2026 Best of Innovation award in Robotics.

Lyte was established by ex-Apple and PrimeSense engineers whose contributions advanced 3D perception into the mainstream via Microsoft Kinect, later becoming essential to Face ID, benefiting over a billion people globally.

"Physical AI encounters a sensing issue prior to facing a model issue." A robot cannot operate safely on information that does not accurately represent reality. We create the complete perception framework, from tailored silicon to the spatial data generated by our systems. “This funding will enable LyteVision™ to be integrated into additional robots, in a greater variety of settings, more quickly,” stated Alexander Shpunt, CEO and co-founder of Lyte.

The majority of robotics platforms create perception using standard components that were not originally intended to function as a cohesive system, resulting in latency, calibration drift, and unreliable data. LyteVision™ combines 4D coherent vision, high-resolution imaging, and inertial sensing into one synchronized timeline. Based on Lyte’s proprietary silicon, it natively detects position and motion instead of reconstructing them through software, generating data that robots can reliably respond to.

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“Lyte is building a foundational sensing platform that enables a wide range of robots to perceive and understand the world around them. The breadth and diversity of early customer demand strengthen our conviction that Lyte is poised to become one of the defining technology companies of the robotics era,” says Andrew Homan, Managing Partner at Maverick Silicon, who has joined Lyte’s board of directors.

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“Owning the silicon separates companies that define a category from those that participate in one. Lyte controls every layer of how a robot understands the world and is now taking that breakthrough engineering into production,” says Avigdor Willenz, Lyte’s chairman.