Oculii develops AI software that significantly improves the imaging performance of low-cost, commercially available radar sensors, claiming up to a 100-fold increase in spatial resolution. The company intends to scale via software licensing to radar companies rather than building automotive hardware, though it does manufacture sensors for robotics clients. Oculii works with multiple OEMs and has an existing commercial relationship with General Motors; the article notes another OEM is on the company's cap table. CEO Steven Hong says the software approach scales with data and gets cheaper over time relative to hardware. The startup recently closed a $55 million Series B and shortly afterward received an additional investment from GM. Those financings are positioned to support wider adoption of Oculii's radar-improvement tech across the automotive supply chain. Oculii builds a smart software layer for existing radar systems and also sells its own high-resolution radar units (Eagle and Falcon) that it says enable far greater spatial detail. The company claims its AI-driven, adaptive waveform approach can improve radar spatial resolution by up to 100x and leverages temporal integration to produce “4D” sensing. Oculii works with Tier‑1 suppliers and OEMs (one of which, HELLA, is also an investor) and has commercial contracts targeting 2024–2025 deployment. It competes with other novel radar approaches but emphasizes software-driven resolution improvements and hardware-software synergy. The firm intends to use the new funding to scale operations, hire, and continue investing in technology to deliver higher resolution, longer range, more compact and cheaper sensors. The article frames Oculii as positioning radar for a larger role in autonomous vehicle perception stacks.

Total raised

$55M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

May 2021