Blickfeld has received the award “Mittelstandspreis der Medien”! The prestigious prize honors excellent medium-sized companies and was presented in the incomparable atmosphere of the Alte Oper Frankfurt.
Blickfeld has made it to Germany’s top 300 startup employers in a study conducted by Business Punk and Statista for the second year in a row. In the category “Business Products & Software”, Blickfeld ranked sixth with a score of 87.52 out of 100.
In order to prevent damage to a bridge’s structure, there are many that may only be driven over by vehicles up to a certain permissible weight and solutions are needed to identify these vehicles. Volkmann Strassen- und Verkehrstechnik GmbH, a leading company in the field of road and construction site safety, uses Blickfeld Cube 1’s 3D LiDAR sensors to play an important role in their solution to this issue. The device identifies such vehicles and safely diverts them before they cross and cause further damage to the structure.
Double win for Blickfeld at the Urban Tech Challengers in Warsaw. The LiDAR supplier was awarded in the Infrastructure & Industrial IoT category and took home the overall win as the Ultimate Urban Tech Challenger 2022.
Patrick Pylypuik joined the Blickfeld management team as Head of Sales North America in June. In this chat, he tells us what fascinates him about Blickfeld, what his plans for the US market look like, and he shares one of his most valuable learnings from the past years.
Blickfeld, the breakthrough LiDAR sensor technology company creating innovative hardware and software products, will be expanding its operations into the US.
To support Blickfeld’s operations on the ground in the US, the company will open a new office in the Detroit area, to establish its strategic North American location. Blickfeld plans to hire 25 more people by the end of 2023.
As part of the IN2Lab research project, Blickfeld is working with project partners such as Audi, Continental, the Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI and the Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences to develop a system that provides automated and autonomous driving with environmental information collected from the infrastructure for additional safety.
Blickfeld has been chosen as one of the most promising German tech start-ups by the global analyst platform “Tracxn” and was included in their „Soonicorn Club 2022“.
Blickfeld, the Munich-based start-up developing breakthrough high performance and mass-producible LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensing technology, announces the extension of the company’s Series A funding to $31 million. New Future Capital (NFC), a private equity firm that provides growth capital primarily in Asia, North America, and Europe, was won as a new investor. Furthermore, all existing investors participated in the round including Bayern Kapital, Continental, Fluxunit – ams OSRAM Ventures, High-Tech Gründerfonds, Tengelmann Ventures, and UVC Partners.
Rising sea levels and more frequent and severe storms threaten coastal regions worldwide, causing flooding and eroding coastlines. It is essential to research and understand these storm events to be able to predict their impact on barrier island and coastal communities and consequently take appropriate protection and mitigation measures.
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