Former Apple Engineers’ Physical AI Startup Lyte Raises $165M At $1.6B Valuation (2026)

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• Former Apple Engineers’ Physical AI Startup Lyte Raises $165M At $1.6B Valuation About Crunchbase Solutions Find Investors Find InvestmentsThe financing, led by Maverick Silicon , brings Lyte’s total raised to $272 million., which led Lyte’s Series B, also participated in the Series C, along with Atreides Management , Key1 Capital , Ora Global (formerly EThe Sunnyvale, California-based company was founded in 2021 by Alexander Shpunt , Arman Hajati and Yuval Gerson — a trio of former Apple engShpunt had also previously co-founded PrimeSense , a startup whose 3D-sensing technology powered Microsoft Kinect before Apple acquired the

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