Overview
Koito Manufacturing (TSE: 7276) is a Japanese automotive lighting manufacturer producing headlights, taillights, and LED lighting systems for major automakers. Develops adaptive headlight technology for autonomous vehicles.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Focus
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Products
HQ
Data & sources
Web sources
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Koito Manufacturing on the deployment map
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Current leadership (1)
- Masahiro Otake Chairman and CEOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Koito Manufacturing.
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Recent coverage
Koito Manufacturing in third-party press
Automotive Lighting Market Accelerates EV Innovation with Smart LED Adoption | CAGR 7.3% | Persistence Market Research - PR Newswire
Koito Takes ¥20 Billion Impairment on LiDAR and China as Sales Beat Forecasts - The Globe and Mail
Automotive LiDAR Market to Grow at 31.3% CAGR Reaching USD 6,464.4 Million by 2033, Accelerates Autonomous Mobility with Smart Sensing Innovation - The Auto Channel
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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Acquisitions (1)
- acquired Ceptonfull acquisition2024-07-29
Timeline
Every recorded move in Koito Manufacturing’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
AcquisitionAcquired Cepton
2024-07-29Acquired Cepton (full_acquisition)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 26, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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Methodology surface for Koito Manufacturing.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Koito Manufacturing from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Automotive Lighting Market Accelerates EV Innovation with Smart LED Adoption | CAGR 7.3% | Persistence Market Research - PR Newswire
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Koito Takes ¥20 Billion Impairment on LiDAR and China as Sales Beat Forecasts - The Globe and Mail
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Automotive LiDAR Market to Grow at 31.3% CAGR Reaching USD 6,464.4 Million by 2033, Accelerates Autonomous Mobility with Smart Sensing Innovation - The Auto Channel
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Cepton Announces Completion of Acquisition by Koito, Ushering in New Era of Long-Term Lidar Deployment - Business Wire
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Cepton, partner on track to begin production of lidar units for GM by end of 2022, CEO says - repairerdrivennews.com
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Cepton CEO sees lidar in GM’s Ultra Cruise models as matter of perception - Fierce Sensors
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Japan parts makers literally reinventing the wheel to keep up with shift to autonomous cars - The Japan Times
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World's Leading Automotive Headlight Manufacturer KOITO, and Magenta Venture Partners Invest $25M in Israeli Startup BrightWay Vision - PR Newswire
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/koito-manufacturing.md
- RSS feed: /companies/koito-manufacturing/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9781e066-bab9-4e3c-b5a7-e693ccdd7f0f
- Revision history: /companies/koito-manufacturing/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Koito Manufacturing against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
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DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 6, 2026