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OUTSIGHT raises €22 Million to accelerate the deployment of LiDAR across all industries

Outsight, a pioneer in 3D software based on LiDAR, obtained an investment of $22 million to accelerate its steady growth trajectory beyond autonomous vehicles.

Outsight, leader in the development of LiDAR-based 3D Software solutions, has announced that it has received funding totalling $22 million in a round that was co-led by Energy Innovation Capital (EIC) and the Defense Innovation Fund managed by Bpifrance, alongside Groupe ADP and historical investors BNP Paribas, SPDG, Demeter, Safran, and Faurecia.

The funding underscores the growing significance of software integration in the quickly developing field of LiDAR beyond self-driving cars.

It is also a resounding endorsement of Outsight’s industry-leading work in deploying 3D Software Solutions across a number of industries, including Smart Cities, Aviation, Robotics, Industry and Logistics.

The largest airport LiDAR-based solution, successfully tested in Paris-Charles de Gaulle (ADP Group), is just one among dozens of new customers Outsight has deployed solutions for and supported in recent months.

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The software solutions of the company have also been widely embraced in a number of other markets throughout Europe, the United States, Asia and the Middle East.

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The increasing mastery of this 3D Spatial Intelligence technology is the next paradigm shift which will revolutionise business as we know it: with 3D LiDAR, anything that moves and monitors moving objects, in complex dynamic environments can become more intelligent, efficient, and safe.

LiDAR hardware is now inexpensive and delivers high performance.

However, the hardware alone can only be efficiently used by a small number of 3D experts. There are also many problems associated with the massive amounts of data it generates and the lack of standardisation across dozens of different hardware vendors.

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Adrien Muller, Principal at Bpifrance states: “After supporting Outsight’s early stages of development through our innovation funding, we are delighted to support this new stage of growth by acquiring a stake in the company. Our investment reflects our collective ambition to widely disseminate the benefits of LIDAR technologies thanks to Outsight’s unique software-based approach which simplifies their use and reduces their deployment costs.”

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Accelerating a steady growth trajectory

This new round of funding is intended to further support the company’s expansion, its ambitious product roadmap including Edge and Cloud Processing, and to strengthen its strategic position as the leading Software Pure Player.

“The opportunity for 3D spatial intelligence and autonomy, beyond autonomous vehicles, is massive and untapped.” said Christopher Smith, Managing Director, Energy Innovation Capital

“Outsight’s technically elegant solution unlocks the power of LiDAR for mass adoption by solving the complex, raw data problem and providing valuable insights across a broad range of applications. We are very excited to partner with the Outsight team to accelerate expansion in the US and global markets.”

The company has customers in many different markets and contexts:

  • In the Automotive and Smart Vehicles market, Stellantis is using Outsight technology to process massive amounts of 3D LiDAR data. Other similar customers are active in Commercial and Industrial vehicles, not only for full automation but also vehicle safety.
  • In the Smart Infrastructure market, Groupe ADP is a good example for airports’ people flow monitoring. Outsight is also very active in other applications like Smart Cities (Vulnerable road users detection, Highway monitoring, Parking) and Security.

According to Edward Arkwright Deputy CEO of Groupe ADP, “Outsight’s development ambitions are in line with our strategy of increasing integration of LIDAR to improve our airport operations, as part of our smart airport ambition. By supporting Outsight in this funding round, we have a key alliance to innovate together around the deployment of LIDAR technology, which is extremely promising, both in Paris and internationally in our network of airports.”

LiDAR goes to the Cloud

After the first real-time solution that only needed a web browser to function (Edge LiDAR processing software) now Outsight is going a step further and integrating this technology with the first Cloud-based LiDAR processing solution of dynamic scenes, which is able to effectively process enormous amounts of 3D data - on the order of tens of Petabytes.

This new product aims to address various use cases, such as Digital Twin applications and Automatic 3D Data Annotation and it puts Outsight in a prime position to shape this emerging market.

According to Raul Bravo, President & Cofounder of Outsight “LiDAR is emancipating from its roots in self-driving car R&D to become the solution of choice in large-scale applications in mature markets, thanks to the new category of enabling software that we have created”.

  • Joffe & Associés represented by Thomas SALTIEL, Camille MALBEZIN and Rudy DIAMANT
  • Gide represented by David-James SEBAG; Julien NEGRONI ; Bastien DUCLOS
  • Woodside Capital Partners, Investment Bank, represented by Rudy Burger and Nishant Jadhav.

According to Nishant Jadhav, Woodside Capital, ” Outsight’s successful capital raise in the wake of challenging economic conditions is a testament of their software’s potential in an erstwhile hardware dominated Lidar sector.”

“Outsight’s software accelerates the future of image sensing and enables new use cases beyond just 3D vision and vendor lock-in. You can sense this future unfurling where Outsight is deployed in many different markets, and they’re just getting started.”

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What industries were using LiDAR software before autonomous vehicles dominated the conversation?

    LiDAR technology originated in aerospace and surveying applications, including airborne terrain mapping and forestry measurement, well before the autonomous vehicle wave made it a mainstream hardware category. The robotics, industrial automation, and security sectors also ran early deployments. The automotive boom between roughly 2015 and 2020 absorbed most R&D investment and drove sensor cost reductions, but non-automotive use cases such as airport flow monitoring, smart-city intersection management, and factory automation benefited directly from those hardware cost curves falling. Outsight, which brings 20 years of LiDAR software leadership, built its SHIFT platform precisely around those non-automotive verticals, with deployments spanning airports like Dallas Fort Worth, SNCF train stations in France, BMW factories, and smart-city intersections in Bellevue.

  • Why do LiDAR software companies need dedicated investment separate from LiDAR hardware makers?

    LiDAR hardware and LiDAR software serve fundamentally different economic models. Hardware revenue is transactional: a sensor ships once. Software revenue is recurring: data processing, analytics, and platform licensing run continuously. The R&D bets are also distinct. Hardware investment funds photonics, optics, and manufacturing yield. Software investment funds real-time processing algorithms, multi-sensor fusion, edge and cloud infrastructure, and cross-vendor compatibility layers. A hardware-agnostic software vendor that works across dozens of sensor models cannot be funded on a hardware company's balance sheet without creating conflicts of interest across its supplier base. Outsight illustrates this dynamic directly: its SHIFT platform maintains compatibility across sensors from Hesai, RoboSense, Ouster, Velodyne, Seyond, and many more, a breadth that independent investment makes possible precisely because no single hardware supplier has a stake in the outcome.

  • What role did Groupe ADP play beyond being a customer in Outsight's funding round?

    Groupe ADP participated as a co-investor in the funding round alongside financial backers, combining a customer relationship with a strategic equity stake. That structure, a major airport operator both buying and funding the same LiDAR software platform, signals a closer-than-typical commercial alignment: the operator gains influence over the product roadmap, while Outsight gains a reference deployment at Paris-Charles de Gaulle, one of Europe's busiest hubs, and a credible signal that large infrastructure operators view the technology as a long-term operational dependency rather than a pilot. The arrangement also reinforces the airport use case for the SHIFT platform, where real-time 3D tracking of passengers, vehicles, and ground equipment underpins day-to-day operational decisions.

  • How does cloud-based LiDAR processing differ from edge-based processing for large-scale deployments?

    Edge processing runs on hardware physically near the sensors, handling sub-50ms latency requirements for live alerting and robot coordination. Cloud processing offloads workloads where latency is less critical but data volume is very large, such as 3D annotation of historical scenes, training data generation, and digital twin batch analysis. Outsight's SHIFT platform is built around exactly this split: the edge layer delivers a sub-50ms end-to-end pipeline for real-time situational awareness, while the cloud layer handles storage-intensive analytics, batch processing, and centralized management across geographically distributed sites. That architecture allows a single deployment, such as a multi-terminal airport or a national rail network, to serve both live operations and retrospective analytics without installing high-powered compute at every sensor location.

  • What problem does standardization solve across multiple LiDAR hardware vendors in a real deployment?

    Different LiDAR manufacturers output point clouds in different binary formats, at different frame rates, with different coordinate conventions and metadata schemas. An operator deploying sensors from two or three vendors in the same site would otherwise need separate processing pipelines, separate calibration tools, and separate integration work per vendor. A hardware-agnostic software layer ingests all of those formats into a single unified stream, so the operator gains freedom to mix vendors for cost or coverage reasons without multiplying engineering complexity. Outsight addresses this directly through its SHIFT platform, which supports over 210 compatible sensor models across manufacturers including Hesai, RoboSense, Ouster, and Seyond, allowing mixed-vendor deployments to feed a single Motional Digital Twin without per-vendor pipeline duplication.

  • What is Bpifrance's Defense Innovation Fund and why would it invest in a LiDAR software company?

    Bpifrance is France's public investment bank; its Defense Innovation Fund finances dual-use technologies, those with both civilian and defense or security applications. LiDAR-based spatial intelligence fits that category: perimeter intrusion detection, critical infrastructure monitoring, and real-time tracking of entities across secured sites are defense-adjacent problems that use the same core processing stack as civilian applications such as airport flow management or smart-city traffic analysis. Outsight's infrastructure-based approach, which anonymously tracks people, vehicles, and robots through a real-time 3D pipeline without capturing faces or biometric data, aligns precisely with the operational and legal requirements of security-sensitive deployments. Backing from a sovereign defense-oriented fund also signals that the French government classifies real-time 3D perception software as strategically important domestic technology.