Company

Kyber

Kyber is a startup developing a unified control platform for managing hundreds of millions of remote devices, leveraging infrastructure experience from VLC Media Player.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news after raising $5 million in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Latest on Kyber

  • When a fleet of robots controlled through a single platform makes a decision in milliseconds, the lag between action and human oversight isn't a millisecond problem. It's a liability problem.
  • unified control plane for hundreds of millions of remote devices, built on proven infrastructure DNA from VLC's scale
  • Lightspeed Venture Partners led the funding round, with participation from OVNI Capital and Kima Ventures
  • Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player which has 6 billion downloads, raised $5 million for his startup Kyber

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