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LightWare LiDAR is one of 130 Hardware / Semiconductors companies tracked from Africa, on record since 2012. By capital raised it ranks mid-pack (ahead of 63% of sector peers), and in the upper tier by modeled valuation est..

Ranking is computed against this company's own sector cohort — reported capital is fact; valuation tiers are modeled.

SA sensor startup LightWare LiDAR raises $1.5m funding round 0 By Tom Jackson on August 20, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African company LightWare LiDAR, which supplies microLiDAR sensor technology to leading global companies, has raised a ZAR25 million (US$1.5 million) funding round to accelerate its growth. Founded in 2012, LightWare “gives eyes to machines”, designing and manufacturing the world’s smallest and lightest precision LiDAR systems for use in drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, smart cities and other applications.

SA sensor startup LightWare LiDAR raises $1.5m funding round 0 By Tom Jackson on August 20, 2020 News , Southern Africa South African company LightWare LiDAR, which supplies microLiDAR sensor technology to leading global companies, has raised a ZAR25 million (US$1.5 million) funding round to accelerate its growth. Founded in 2012, LightWare “gives eyes to machines”, designing and manufacturing the world’s smallest and lightest precision LiDAR systems for use in drones, robots, autonomous vehicles, smart cities and other applications.

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Solid bars are reported offering amounts reported; hatched bars are the modeled post-money valuation est. — both on one shared scale so you can read raise-vs-worth at each round directly. Use the toggles to overlay data labels and the niche-peer / market average value lines.

Round size and date are reported; the stage label is inferred from round size (latest is Growth/Late — a round over $400M). Valuation is modeled from stage benchmarks scaled by the hardware/semi sector profile. Directional, not a quoted figure.

Not enough modeled valuation points to chart a trajectory.

Benchmarked against 130 companies in Hardware / Semiconductors. Each bar is a median (the middle company, not an average — outliers don't skew it). Two yardsticks: real money raised (reported on Form D) and modeled value (our estimate est.). These are whole-sector medians across all stages, except the per-stage row.

Raised more than 63% of sector peers (real $). Modeled value above 75% of peers (estimate).

Stage is inferred from round size est., not reported on the filing — a round's dollar size maps to a bucket: Pre-Seed <$1.0M · Seed $1.0M–$4.0M · Series A $4.0M–$15M · Series B $15M–$40M · Series C $40M–$100M · Series D+ $100M–$400M · Growth/Late >$400M.

Step-up, pace versus the sector's normal cadence, and revenue/exemption moves — read straight from the reported round facts reported.

1. Growth/Late$1.5M2020-08-20
   • First recorded raise — entered as Growth/Late.
   • 1 investor on this round.

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LightWare LiDAR is an official record sourced from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. data is aggregated from SEC Form D filings.

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