What it sells
Building The Next Generation of Night Vision Devices
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedUS defense units and integrators (Army xTech award, Air Force counter-UAS installations via Circle Optics, Picogrid).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Need to see in moonless starlight at lower cost than thermal; counter-UAS and base security at night.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Camera with embedded edge-AI chip aggregates photons temporally from a CMOS sensor to produce usable imagery down to 0.1 millilux, replacing Gen 3 image intensifier tubes or thermal.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Contracts plus $12M venture funding to date; strategy is turning night vision into a scalable digital product on commoditized consumer sensor supply chains, claiming lower cost than thermal.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Partner/integrator model announced via news (Circle Optics, Picogrid); defense contracts and events (AUSA).
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Winter 2024 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.