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- Cepton, Inc. develops and provides lidar-based solutions for automotive advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles, smart cities, smart spaces, and smart industrial applications. The company offers long-range lidar sensors including Vista-X with up to 200 meters range at 10% reflectivity, 0.09-degree resolution, and 120 by 25-degree field of view; Vista-P with up to 200 meters range at 30% reflectivity, 0.25-degree resolution, and 90 by 40-degree field of view; Ultra featuring MagoSteer technology for ultra-dense 3D point clouds, ultra-thin design, and software-definable regions of interest; Sora-X with approximately 250 Hz scan rate, 200 meters range at 25% reflectivity, and 120 by 22-degree field of view; and Nova for accurate near-range, wide-angle sensing with embeddable design for vehicle safety cocoons; as well as industrial-grade sensors such as Sora-P for high-speed object profiling in free-flow tolling; and integrated solutions like Helius combining lidar sensing, edge computing, and perception software for real-time 3D object detection, tracking, classification, multi-lidar aggregation, and configurable perception zones. Cepton operates in the United States, Japan, China, Europe including Germany, Canada, and India. Founded in 2016 and headquartered at 399 West Trimble Road in San Jose, California, the company functions as a privately held indirect subsidiary of Koito Manufacturing Co., Ltd. following Koito's acquisition of all outstanding capital stock not already owned by Koito for $3.17 per share in cash, with the transaction completed on January 7, 2025. Prior to the acquisition, Cepton and Koito partnered since 2017 on lidar industrialization, secured a series production award with a global OEM for near-range lidar, and signed a $10 million engineering services contract with Koito for product development.