# Compound Eye

> Compound Eye develops VIDAS, software that combines camera geometry, machine learning, and inertial sensing to give autonomous machines depth measurement, scene understanding, and position tracking. It serves defense and targets automotive and heavy-equipment applications, using standard cameras and embedded computing rather than requiring lidar or radar.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, United States
- **Founders:** Jason Devitt (Co-founder and CEO), Haoyang Wang (Co-founder)
- **Products:** VIDAS, VIDAS Development Kit, VIDAS-SLAM
- **Notable:** Early-access VIDAS DevKit announced July 28, 2022., xTechSearch 5 finalist with $145,000 in prizes and accelerator participation., Five Direct to Phase II defense SBIR awards reported on the company website.

## Products & services

- **VIDAS** — Visual Inertial Distributed Aperture System: real-time dense depth, scene classification, and position tracking using cameras, geometry, AI, and inertial information.
- **VIDAS Development Kit** — Early access announced July 2022; two cameras, compute module, cables, optional GPS antenna, browser-based analysis tools, and SDK.
- **VIDAS-SLAM** — Army-backed development extending passive perception to simultaneous localization and mapping for GPS-denied navigation.

## Achievements

- Early-access VIDAS DevKit announced July 28, 2022.
- xTechSearch 5 finalist with $145,000 in prizes and accelerator participation.
- Five Direct to Phase II defense SBIR awards reported on the company website.
- Army PIT reported $20.6 million in private capital by 2025.
- Army xTech reported full $13.3 million CATALYST funding in July 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Army PIT published a success story describing the Series B, private-capital total, and VIDAS-SLAM development partnership.
- **2025-07** — Army xTech reports full CATALYST funding of $13.3 million with RTX Advantage as integrator.
- **2024-09** — Phase II Enhancement began with nearly $2.2 million in combined funding from Army partners and integrators.

## Links

- Website: https://www.compoundeye.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/compound-eye/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/compoundeyeinc

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