Cepton Technologies has opened an office in the UK to serve EMEA partners and customers. The US company is a provider of 3D LiDAR (“light detection and ranging” or “light imaging, detection and ranging”) technology.solutions for automotive, IoT, industrial, security and mapping applications.
The European office is located at the iHub innovation and technology park in Derby, East Midlands. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2016, It claims a global customer base and says it is seeing growing demand in the EMEIA region for its “high performance, long range and cost-efficient” LiDAR
The UK team will manage and support customer projects deploying Micro Motion Technology (MMT) LiDAR sensors for the transport, transport infrastructure and security industries, in partnership with company partners in the UK and mainland Europe, India, the Middle East and Africa.
To underpin the company’s growing business and expansion plans, Cepton’s UK team will expand organically through the region over the next year to around a dozen technical solutions experts and engineers.
“We are extremely pleased to open our UK office at iHub in Derby, located in the heart of the UK with easy access to many of our customers and partners and a prime location to attract top talent,” said Neil Huntingdon, vice president of business development. “The EMEIA region is a strategic market for Cepton with some of the world’s top companies and manufacturers in the transport, transport infrastructure and security industries.
“We look forward to continuing to expand our footprint and operations to meet the industry’s rising demand for LiDAR-based solutions.”
iHub is located in Infinity Park, a new manufacturing-focused innovation and technology park which is home to a range of technology and supply chain companies in the aerospace, automotive and rail sectors. Infinity Park has Enterprise Zone status, providing companies with a number of business benefits at the national and local level.
LiDAR technology is used by Google spin-off Waymo, for instance, for its “driverless” or autonomous driving solutions.
