Kura Technologies
Kura AR is building the best performing AR glasses and platform, with a 150° field of view, 95% transparency, 8K resolution, and in a compact form factor, those performance directly solving today's biggest bottleneck to AR mass adoption. Kura AR Demo: https://bit.ly/3oEo1zw Our solution includes both hardware and software platforms, which are designed to be integrated with software companies to provide enterprise and consumer solutions. We are providing the best-performing AR platform for telepresent collaborations, training, and 3D visualization. We have a team of 35+ people including young inventors, successful serial entrepreneurs, to experienced domain experts, including semiconductor veterans with $1B+ IPO as founding CTO of Leapfrog, the inventor of DSL (acquired by Texas Instrument); and a 11 people IC team who have experience in taping out customized silicon and shipping products in the volumes of tens of millions over more than 2 decades; MIT Ph.D on computer language and system design and Thiel Fellows; two of the world's most famous optical experts, including a core inventor of the deep & extreme UV lithography processes, optical lead with 200+ patents and 3 decades in optical design for manufacturing with companies like Kodak; technical director/head of supply chain with 30+ lead groups, started and building factories and launch products at Intel, Microsoft Hololens, GoPro, Sony, and Logitech; experience enterprise software + hardware SaaS platform expert who worked with Microsoft, HP, etc. for over a decade; many of the founding members are from MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Columbia, UIUC, Georgia Tech, USC, University of Rochester, as alumni, researchers and Ph.Ds.
Kura AR is building the best performing AR glasses and platform, with a 150° field of view, 95% transparency, 8K resolution, and in a compact form factor, those performance directly solving today's biggest bottleneck to AR mass adoption. Kura AR Demo: https://bit.ly/3oEo1zw Our solution includes both hardware and software platforms, which are designed to be integrated with software companies to provide enterprise and consumer solutions. We are providing the best-performing AR platform for telepresent collaborations, training, and 3D visualization. We have a team of 35+ people including young inventors, successful serial entrepreneurs, to experienced domain experts, including semiconductor veterans with $1B+ IPO as founding CTO of Leapfrog, the inventor of DSL (acquired by Texas Instrument); and a 11 people IC team who have experience in taping out customized silicon and shipping products in the volumes of tens of millions over more than 2 decades; MIT Ph.D on computer language and system design and Thiel Fellows; two of the world's most famous optical experts, including a core inventor of the deep & extreme UV lithography processes, optical lead with 200+ patents and 3 decades in optical design for manufacturing with companies like Kodak; technical director/head of supply chain with 30+ lead groups, started and building factories and launch products at Intel, Microsoft Hololens, GoPro, Sony, and Logitech; experience enterprise software + hardware SaaS platform expert who worked with Microsoft, HP, etc. for over a decade; many of the founding members are from MIT, UC Berkeley, University of Columbia, UIUC, Georgia Tech, USC, University of Rochester, as alumni, researchers and Ph.Ds.
Kura Technologies has raised $100k across 1 round. Its most recent round was a Venture - Series Unknown of $100k in Jan 2022. Full funding history, investors, and team are detailed below.
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