Zendar
About
About Zendar
Zendar combines radar measurements from antennas placed around the vehicle into a distributed aperture, improving angular resolution and coverage beyond a single compact radar unit. Its early-fusion software then combines RF data with camera imagery before higher-level object and scene interpretation.
Pretrained models run on embedded vehicle compute and maintain tracks through darkness, fog, rain and temporary visual occlusion. Development kits package sensors, computing and software for autonomous-vehicle and robot teams evaluating radar-rich perception without building the complete fusion stack internally.
Funding
- 2022-01-27 - Series B - Zendar receives Hyundai Mobis investment in Series B
Hyundai Mobis bought a minority stake in Zendar as part of its Series B funding round. - source: prnewswire.co.uk
Investors
- Hyundai Mobis - Participant - Corporate / CVC - 1 funding event - strategic/corporate - first seen 2022-01-27
Team
- Vinayak Nagpal - CEO and Co-Founder
- Jimmy Wang - CPO and Co-Founder
- Sunil Thomas - Chief Business Officer
- Antonio Puglielli - VP Engineering
Timeline
Events
- 2023-11-02 - Partnership - NXP invests in Zendar and collaborates on distributed-aperture radar
The collaboration combines Zendar's distributed-aperture radar processing with NXP's S32R processors and SAF8x radar hardware. The companies positioned the architecture as a route to higher-resolution sensing for increasingly automated vehicles. NXP also disclosed a strategic investment in Zendar alongside the technical collaboration.
Source - 2022-01-27 - Funding - Zendar receives Hyundai Mobis investment in Series B
Distributed Aperture Radar combines signals from multiple radar front-ends around a vehicle. The software runs on existing ADAS compute infrastructure and combines radar inputs with inertial motion data. Zendar was recruiting technical staff in the United States and Germany.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- NXP Semiconductors
Distributed Aperture Radar Development Partner - Zendar and NXP collaborate on high-resolution distributed-aperture radar for automated vehicles.
Context
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Context tags
- Autonomous System Sensing - Workflow - Korthos context supports Autonomous System Sensing.
- AV perception planning control - Workflow - Korthos context supports AV perception planning control.