Cepton provides state-of-the-art, intelligent, lidar-based solutions for a range of markets such as automotive (ADAS/AV), smart cities, smart spaces and smart industrial applications. Cepton’s patented MMT®-based lidar technology enables reliable, scalable and cost-effective solutions that deliver long range, high resolution 3D perception for smart applications.
Founded in 2016 and led by industry veterans with over two decades of collective experience across a wide range of advanced lidar and imaging technologies, Cepton is focused on the mass market commercialization of high performance, high quality lidar solutions. Cepton is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a presence in Germany, Canada, Japan and India, to serve a fast-growing global customer base.
Founded in 2016 and led by industry veterans with over two decades of collective experience across a wide range of advanced lidar and imaging technologies, Cepton is focused on the mass market commercialization of high performance, high quality lidar solutions. Cepton is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, with a presence in Germany, Canada, Japan and India, to serve a fast-growing global customer base.
Location: United States, California, San Jose
Employees: 51-200
Total raised: $175M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 3
Funding Rounds 3
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 30.08.2022 | - | $100M | - |
| 28.02.2022 | - | $25M | Trinity Ca... |
| 10.02.2020 | Series C | $50M | - |
Mentions in press and media 14
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.01.2023 | Cepton Unveils World’s Slimmest, Software Definable Top-end Lidar, the Vista-X120 Plus | Powered by Cepton’s next-generation innovations to offer an unprecedented combination of superior performance, power efficiency, adaptivity and compactness Cepton, a Silicon Valley innovator of high-performance lidar solutions, announced th... |
| 17.10.2022 | LidarSwiss Deploys Cepton Lidar for High-Fidelity Mapping and Smart Analytics on the Fly | Cepton, , a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high-performance lidar solutions, announced that it is working with LidarSwiss Solutions GmbH (“LidarSwiss”) to deploy its lidar technology in a drone-based mapping and analytics solution f... |
| 06.05.2022 | Partner breakout sessions will drop serious knowledge at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 | We’re less than two weeks away from kicking off TC Sessions: Mobility 2022. Our first in-person mobility event since 2019 — holy cats! — takes place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, followed by an online event on May 20. Don’t miss th... |
| 12.11.2021 | Cepton Technologies Announces Upcoming Investor Event Schedule | Cepton Technologies, Inc. (“Cepton”), a Silicon Valley innovator focused on the mass-market commercialization of high performance, high quality lidar solutions, announced today its participation in the following investor events: J.P. Morgan... |
| 03.09.2021 | Growth Capital Acquisition : Cepton Announces Participation in Q3 2021 Investor Conferences (Form 8-K) | Cepton Announces Participation in Q3 2021 Investor Conferences September 02, 2021 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cepton Technologies, Inc. ('Cepton'), a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high performa... |
| 02.09.2021 | Cepton Announces Participation in Q3 2021 Investor Conferences | Cepton Technologies, Inc. (“Cepton”), a Silicon Valley innovator and leader in high performance MMT® lidar solutions, announced today its participation in the following investor conferences: RBC Capital Markets Global Industrials Conference... |
| 06.08.2021 | Growth Capital Acquisition : Cepton Announces $50M Committed Investment in Cepton's Business From KOITO After ADAS Design Win at a Major Global OEM | Cepton Technologies, Inc. (“Cepton”), a leader in high performance MMT® lidar solutions for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and Smart Infrastructure applications, announced today that its automotive Tier ... |
| 27.07.2021 | dSPACE and Cepton Partner to Provide 3D Lidar Simulation for ADAS and Autonomous Applications | Collaboration advances the deployment of lidar solutions with real-time simulations and virtual test drives Cepton, a Silicon Valley-based supplier of state-of-the-art, intelligent lidar-based solutions, and dSPACE, a leading provider of si... |
| 06.02.2020 | Cepton Technologies Inks $50M Series C | SAN JOSE, CA, Cepton Technologies, a leading provider of state-of-the-art, intelligent, lidar-based solutions, announced today that it has raised over $50 million in Series C funding. >> Click here for more funding data on Cepton T... |
| 06.02.2020 | Cepton Technologies Raises Over $50M in Series C Funding | Cepton Technologies, Inc., a San Jose, CA-based provider of intelligent, lidar-based solutions, raised over $50m in Series C funding. The round, which brings Cepton’s total funding to nearly $100m, was led by Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (... |
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