The seed round signals early market traction and active partnerships in core industries, positioning Cephia for rapid development and expansion.

Cephia has secured seed funding to accelerate product development, hiring, and sales growth, with pilot customers spanning consumer electronics, manufacturing, and precision agriculture.

The funding will advance Cephia’s metamaterials-based multimodal sensing technology, driving hardware-software co-design and applications across robotics, machine vision, and edge AI.

Lead investor Radiant Opto-Electronics Corporation (ROE) leads the round with co-lead Incharge Capital, and participation from MetaVC Partners, NRM Partners, and SOSV.

Cephia’s technology builds on a decade of computational imaging work from Princeton University, with founders Bo Dong (CEO), Ethan Tseng (CTO), and Felix Heide (Co-founder) bringing deep ties to academia and industry.

Founders include Bo Dong, who previously led computer vision at Disney Research Imagineering; Ethan Tseng, a Princeton PhD who developed the world’s first full-color metasurface camera; and Felix Heide, a Princeton professor with leadership roles at Torc Robotics and past work at Algolux.

ROE will appoint a board representative, with Theodor Nielsen of NIL Technology, signaling governance support from a strategic partner.

Cephia plans to leverage Princeton’s Computational Imaging Lab work to advance hardware-software co-design in multimodal sensing for robotics, machine vision, and edge AI across multiple industries.

Further information about investors and Cephia is available at cephia.ai, with media contact details in the press release.

Cephia positions itself in multimodal sensing as redefining metasurface-based vision systems with potential impact on automotive, manufacturing, and consumer electronics sectors.

Cephia aims to enable the next generation of physical artificial general intelligence through all-in-one sensing solutions built on metamaterials and advanced AI.

Cephia, a Princeton spinout, launches with $4 million in seed funding led by ROE and co-led by Incharge Capital, with participation from MetaVC Partners, NRM Partners, and SOSV to commercialize metamaterial-based multimodal sensing.