# Lyte: robotics company

Canonical ID: `24c7cb01-124a-4d30-a957-143db8364fd3`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** [Alexander Shpunt](/people/alexander-shpunt.md)
- **CTO:** [Dr. Arman Hajati](/people/arman-hajati.md)
- **VP Engineering:** [Dr. Yuval Gerson](/people/yuval-gerson.md)
- **Chairman:** Avigdor Willenz
- **Total funding:** [$272M (company-reported)](/investors.md) ([see investors](/investors.md))
- **CES 2026:** Best of Innovation in Robotics
- **Website:** lyte.ai
- **HQ:** Sunnyvale, California, USA
- **Series C valuation:** $1.6B post-money (Sep 2026)
- **Products:** [LyteVision](/models/lytevision.md), LyteGalaxy, LyteCore SoC
- **Customers:** inspection, logistics, manufacturing (shipping)

- **Slug:** lyte
- **Founded:** 2021
- **HQ:** Sunnyvale, California, USA
- **Valuation of record:** $1.6B (Company-claimed, as of Sep 2026; Priced round: [Series C post-money](https://lyte.ai/news/series-c)) · [see valuations ranking](/valuations.md)

## Models

- [LyteVision](/models/lytevision.md) (other) (id: `b44e525a-2fac-46d5-afd0-77e5cb62901c`)

## Current leadership (6)

- [Alexander Shpunt](/people/alexander-shpunt.md) CEO & Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Alexander Shpunt](/people/alexander-shpunt.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Dr. Arman Hajati](/people/arman-hajati.md) CTO & Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Dr. Arman Hajati](/people/arman-hajati.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Dr. Yuval Gerson](/people/yuval-gerson.md) VP Engineering & Co-Founder (secondary-verified)
- [Dr. Yuval Gerson](/people/yuval-gerson.md) Co-Founder (secondary-verified)

## Partnerships (1)

- [Lyte x NVIDIA (Holoscan Sensor Bridge)](/partnerships/lyte-x-nvidia-holoscan-sensor-bridge.md) with NVIDIA _technology_ (_reported, not operationally verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Lyte?

Lyte is a physical AI perception company developing custom silicon, multimodal sensors, and spatial software that give robots a trustworthy, real-time view of the physical world. Founded in 2021 by former [Apple](/companies/apple) and PrimeSense engineers who worked on [Microsoft](/companies/microsoft) Kinect and Face ID, the company emerged from stealth in January 2026 and has raised $272M total. Its [LyteVision](/models/lytevision) platform fuses 4D coherent vision, RGB imaging, and inertial sensing on custom silicon, and won CES 2026 Best of Innovation in Robotics.

### What does Lyte make?

Lyte has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: LyteVision (Lyte builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

### Where is Lyte headquartered?

Lyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA.

### Where does Lyte operate robots?

Lyte is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### Is Lyte a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Lyte ranks in roughly the top 83% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Lyte founded?

Lyte was founded in 2021.


## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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