Last deal

Amount

Series A

Stage

11.11.2020

Date

3

all rounds

$48.09M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Sense Photonics builds intelligent 3D vision systems for industrial and automotive use-cases.

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Also Known As

Sense

founded date

01.12.2016

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series A

IPO status

Private

Description

The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2016, develops and manufactures solid-state LiDAR sensors that leverage proprietary laser arrays, modular architecture, interference mitigation, and 3D depth-sensing technologies. With over 200 patents, Sense Photonics produces advanced LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for autonomous vehicles, robotics, and industrial automation markets. Their core technology enables a simple, high-performance, solid-state solution with no moving parts that meets the rigorous performance, reliability, and cost requirements for automotive and industrial applications, accelerating advancements in assisted and autonomous driving.
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Sense Photonics, Inc.
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1
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2
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Russ Kanjorski
Russ Kanjorski

Russ Kanjorski

Co-Founder & CCO at Sense Photonics.

current job

Sense Photonics
Sense Photonics

organization founded

1

Russ Kanjorski

Russell Kanjorski
Russell Kanjorski

Russell Kanjorski

current job

Sense Photonics
Sense Photonics

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1

Russell Kanjorski

Scott Burroughs
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Scott Burroughs

Scott Burroughs is the Co-founder, President & Chief Innovation Officer of Sense Photonics. He has 30 years of commercial experience in III-V compound semiconductors and optics. Prior to Semprius, he served as vice president of Technology at Optovia, and vice president of Engineering at Santur Corporation. Burroughs also served as vice president of Operations at CoreTek, a successful tunable laser start-up that was acquired by Nortel. He started his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he helped to develop and manufacture GaAs semiconductor lasers for the world's first commercial fiber optic communication systems.

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Scott Burroughs

Employee Profiles
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Andrew Nelson

Vice president of sales and business development

Shauna McIntyre

Shauna McIntyre

CEO

Mark Sandoval

Mark Sandoval

Senior Vice President of Product, Partnerships and Operations

Erin Bishop

Erin Bishop

Director of Business Development

Tim Weidner

Manager of talent acquisitions

Russell Kanjorski

Russell Kanjorski

Co-Founder & CCO

Scott Burroughs

Scott Burroughs

Co-founder, President & Chief Innovation Officer

Russ Kanjorski

Russ Kanjorski

Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer

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