69 Best Sensor Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Sensor Startups

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There are 154 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $3.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $52.2m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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$48.6m

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World View is a Tucson, Arizona-based developer and manufacturer of near-space exploration technology for remote sensing for scientific, commercial, economic, and military purposes and stratospheric tourism.

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$217.2m

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Density is a San Francisco-based company building a people-counting system to measure the number of people in or passing through a physical space such as a hallway, lobby, or conference hall.

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$294.0m

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Augury is a B2B company developing hardware and software solutions to help monitor and diagnose a machine's health through wireless sensors and artificial intelligence capabilities.

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$3.3m

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NanoSonic Inc. is a Pembroke, VA-based advanced materials company specializing in thermal management solutions (such as thermal arrays) and related safety equipment

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$161.3m

Money raised

Rebellion Defense provides artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions for the United States and United Kingdom military and civil service.

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$4.4m

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Qlm Technology Ltd is a Bristol-based company developing quantum gas sensing technology for the oil and gas industry.

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$4.6m

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SA Photonics specializes in the design and development of advanced photonic systems for military and commercial customers.

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$594.0k

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Carnegie Robotics is a Pittsburgh-based company that provides advanced robotics sensors and platforms.

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$50.0k

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Spectrabotics is a company developing a data collection and analytics platform.

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4

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$270.0m

Money raised

ICEYE provides commercial access to Earth observation data. The ICEYE SAR Satellite Constellation captures images of any location on Earth every three hours, day and night, regardless of cloud cover.

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$232.0m

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An electronic manufacturing company with a focus on high-resolution LIDAR sensors. It was founded in 2015 and is located in San Francisco, California.

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$23.5m

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Salience Labs is a hybrid photonic-electronic chips maker for AI founded in 2021 by Wolfram Pernice, Vaysh Kewada, Johannes Feldmann and Harish Bhaskaran.

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$94.4m

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AgriWebb creates farm management software.

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$8.0m

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A company building a portable molecular tracker that offers instant feedback about physical performance and is starting with, but is not limited to, reporting individual cortisol and testosterone levels. It was founded in 2016 and is located in London, England.

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$1.6m

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A company providing an ultrasonic sensor solution for three-dimensional positioning in vehicles in order to drive autonomously in close proximity and low-speed environments.

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$15.0m

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Converge is a UK-based company developing real-time concrete monitoring solutions founded in 2014 by Raphael Scheps.

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$10.5m

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Copper Labs is a California-based company that makes wireless electricity consumption devices

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$11.8m

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A technology company with a sensory interface platform which allows users to speak and hear clearly in extreme noise, wind, under mask and under water. It was founded in 2010 and is located in San Mateo, California.

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Funding Rounds

$73.6m

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An artificial intelligence and computer hardware company offering a software and hardware platform for capturing workplace activities using sensors.

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$23.7m

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Hoana Medical is a Honolulu-based medical device company developing connected, embedded sensing systems for physiological monitoring of patients.

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$49.3m

Money raised

Nanomix is a Emeryville, California-based medical diagnostics company developing mobile point-of-care diagnostic tools.

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$39.3m

Money raised

Tachyus is a company founded in 2014 by Dakin Sloss, Paul Orland, Joel Moxley, Francisco Leport and Pallav Sarma.

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5

Funding Rounds

$252.0m

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Innoviz is a leading manufacturer of high-performance, solid-state LiDAR sensors and perception software that enable the mass-production of autonomous vehicles.

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$27.6m

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Management Sciences, Inc. (MSI) supports the needs of industry and government for sensors and intranets in the areas of prognostic health management, situation awareness, signals intelligence, AI, safety, and embedded systems.

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Funding Rounds

$3.0m

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Sensor and surveillance technology company based in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

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Funding Rounds

$80.2m

Money raised

Humantics is a software company that was founded in 2015.

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Funding Rounds

$120.1m

Money raised

Syntiant is an Irvine, California-based company founded in 2017 by Pieter Vorenkamp, Kurt Busch, Jeremy Holleman and Steph Bailey.

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$96.0m

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TriEye is a sensor and machine vision company founded by Avi Bakal.

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4

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$3.4m

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Estimote is a technology company developing and building a sensor-based context and micro-location platform for mobile developers.

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8

Funding Rounds

$86.3m

Money raised

Blickfeld develops and manufactures LiDAR systems autonomous mobility and IoT applications.

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5

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$296.0m

Money raised

Vayyar is a company making an advanced 4-dimensional imaging sensor. The company is headquartered in Yehud, Israel and was founded in 2011 by Miri Ratner, Naftali Chayet, and Raviv Melamed.

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2

Funding Rounds

$12.1m

Money raised

Lunar Outpost is a Colorado based aerospace technology company, currently focused on developing space resource technologies.

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$128.3m

Money raised

Enapter is a company that designs and manufactures hydrogen generators.

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9

Funding Rounds

$26.9m

Money raised

Droneshield is a company that offers security drones to its clients.

5

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$103.0m

Money raised

VitalConnect is a wearable biosensor technology for wireless hospital and remote patient monitoring.

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$12.0m

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A company developing antenna and sensor technology for automotive (ADAS/AV), wireless communications, robotics and drones.

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5

Funding Rounds

$35.0m

Money raised

Valencell is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company developing biometric sensor technology for wearable and hearable OEM's.

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2

Funding Rounds

$32.4m

Money raised

Predictive maintenance system for AC motors and rotating equipment.

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Funding Rounds

$56.4m

Money raised

SeeQC is a company developing and commercializing quantum technologies founded in 2019.

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$4.5m

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Sharper Shape is a computer software company that provides holistic solutions for asset and vegetation management.

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$8.4m

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Variable is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company founded in 2009 by George Yu.

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$6.8m

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Eclipse Energy Systems is a St. Petersburg, Florida-based company specializing in thin-film technologies for applications in defense and aerospace

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$2.4m

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Proxy42 provides modern digital entertainment.

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$12.1m

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WeavAir is a Toronto-based developer of solutions for indoor air problems using predictive artificial intelligence, sensors and blockchain technology.

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$8.0m

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SensorUp is a Calgary-based IoT development and research company.

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8

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$3.4m

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Exoanalytic Solutions is a Mission Viejo, California-based company founded in 2008.

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$78.0m

Money raised

Roambee is a company that controls goods and assets with built sensor hardware, cloud data analytics, and automation.

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7

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$620.0k

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A company developing ultrasonic wearable for the blind people to heighten perception to improve their spatial awareness and navigation.

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1

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$8.0m

Money raised

OpenSignal is a company that specializes in wireless coverage mapping founded in 2010 by Sina Khanifar, Sam Westwood, Brendan Gill and James Robinson.

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$45.0m

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Lumotive focuses on solid-state, 3D-sensing systems, researching and developing solutions for various industries.

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4

Funding Rounds

$3.2m

Money raised

Pranalytica, Inc. is a company that designs and manufactures high powered midwave Infrared and longwave Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers.

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$23.0m

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LocatorX provides a tracking, security and validation platform solution for product manufacturers and suppliers.

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2

Funding Rounds

$11.2m

Money raised

Surrey NanoSystems develops and manufactures nanoscale materials for engineering and product applications.

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$1.4m

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doks. Innovation GmbH provides tools to digitize warehouses and stocktaking.

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Funding Rounds

$188.0m

Money raised

Neuromorphic vision system that mimics human eye and brain mechanics for advanced visual sensing.

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5

Funding Rounds

$19.0m

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Aspinity is a Pittsburgh-based company founded in 2018 by Brandon Rumberg, Thomas Doyle, David Graham, Tom Doyle and Dr. Brandon Rumberg.

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$63.2m

Money raised

Stratio is a big data management platform founded in 2014 by Yeul Na, Youngsik Kim and Jae Hyung Lee.

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$27.5m

Money raised

Locix develops cloud-based spatial data solutions for commercial buildings, homes and connected devices.

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$77.6m

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Kromek develops and manufactures radiation detection devices for the medical, nuclear and other industries.

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$12.7m

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Fos4x is a manufacturing industry founded by Lars Hoffman and Rolf Wojtech in 2010.

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$1.7m

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Robotic Materials is a computer software company that offers robot-native manufacturing execution and time-keeping systems.

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Calyx (formerly BioInspira) is a company building a versatile sensor platform that can detect airborne chemicals.

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$9.0m

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Cohero Health is a company founded in 2013.

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$2.0m

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Blueforce Development is a Massachusetts-based company that enables sharing of wearable (M2M/IoT) sensor data

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$4.0m

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Instrumems Inc. is a developing technology company.

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$19.0m

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Developer and manufacturer of semiconductor products designed for material sensing applications. The company leverages silicon integrated micro-optical systems technology (SiMOST) to develop single-chip FT-IR spectrometers, spectral sensors, and scanners, providing clients with a cost-effective alternative to laboratory-based spectrometers.

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5

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$2.0m

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Land Sea Air Autonomy (also known as LSA Autonomy) is an autonomous systems and autonomous vehicles company based in Westminster, MD.

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$1.0m

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Labby is a company founded in 2017.

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$815.0k

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Wearable single-use hydration sensor for athletes, soldiers, and laborers that measures hydration levels and informs when, what, and how much to drink.

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