# Nexar Inc.

> Nexar is a New York-based mobility technology company that turns connected dashcams into a real-time sensing network for the physical world. Founded in 2015 by Eran Shir and Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, it sells LTE-connected 4K dashcams to consumers while aggregating anonymized road imagery into CityStream, a platform that gives cities, mapmakers, insurers and autonomous-vehicle developers a minute-by-minute, ground-level view of streets. In July 2026 Nexar agreed to merge with Nauto to form an independent infrastructure platform for physical AI, backed by more than 10 billion historic miles of driving data across 50+ countries.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Eran Shir (Co-founder & former CEO), Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz (Co-founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~150 employees
- **Products:** Nexar Dash Cams (Beam2, Beam2 Mini, Nexar One), CityStream, CityStream Live / Virtual Camera, CityStream Work Zones, CityStream Curb & Road Inventory
- **Notable:** Built a connected-dashcam network refreshing roughly 94% of US roads., Raised approximately $150M across five rounds from 2015 to 2021., Acquired Veniam, a Portugal-based vehicle networking company, in 2021.

## Products & services

- **Nexar Dash Cams (Beam2, Beam2 Mini, Nexar One)** — LTE-connected dashcams recording in up to 4K with automatic cloud backup, live parking alerts, and an AI-powered companion app that warns drivers of hazards.
- **CityStream** — A crowdsourced-vision platform that aggregates trillions of anonymized dashcam images into minute-by-minute, ground-level insight on traffic, infrastructure and city dynamics.
- **CityStream Live / Virtual Camera** — Real-time mapping and a 'virtual camera' that lets users monitor any location with recent ground-level imagery without physical cameras on site.
- **CityStream Work Zones** — AI that automatically detects, localizes and maps road work zones and barricade elements for public-sector road management.
- **CityStream Curb & Road Inventory** — Vision AI that maps free curb space, parking use and road assets, plus API-based comparison of maps against real-world change.
- **Training Data Sets** — Anonymized, licensed road-scene video used to train autonomous-vehicle and ADAS perception models.

## Achievements

- Built a connected-dashcam network refreshing roughly 94% of US roads.
- Raised approximately $150M across five rounds from 2015 to 2021.
- Acquired Veniam, a Portugal-based vehicle networking company, in 2021.
- Launched CityStream, digitizing public space from car-sourced imagery.
- Presented an AI image-retrieval method at the CVPR conference in 2019.
- Agreed in July 2026 to merge with Nauto into a physical-AI data platform spanning 50+ countries and 10B+ historic miles.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Nexar and Nauto announced a definitive agreement to merge, creating an independent infrastructure platform for physical AI; Zach Greenberger to be CEO, Stefan Heck to chair the board.
- **2021-11** — Raised a $53M Series D led by Qumra Capital to expand CityStream and its dashcam network.
- **2021-11** — TechCrunch profiled Nexar's effort to build a 'digital twin' of cities from crowdsourced dashcam data.
- **2021** — Acquired Veniam to strengthen vehicle-to-cloud networking.

## Links

- Website: https://www.getnexar.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nexar-inc-
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/getnexar
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getnexar/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/getnexar/

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Last updated: 2026-07-18