Zendar
zendar.ai
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Autonomous Driving
Automotive Software
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Funding and backers
Total raised
$18.5M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$8M
Venture round · Apr 2021 · 5 yr ago
Team
36
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +6% in a year
Hiring now
1
+1 posted in 30 days
Backers
4
Plug and Play, Y Combinator
The money's age
Long since its last round
66 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
13/100
hiring for its size
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Apr 8, 2021
Raised a round Venture round $8M · SEC Form D
Mar 8, 2019
Raised a round Venture round $10.5M · SEC Form D
Jun 2017
Went through Y Combinator
2017
Founded
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Apr 2021 | $8M | — | SEC Form D |
| Venture round | Mar 2019 | $10.5M | — | SEC Form D |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Zendar GmbH | its site |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Vinayak NagpalExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
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Visa sponsorship
6 ▲ 50%
H-1B filings in 12 months
3
Green card filings
$149k
Median offered salary
Who they sponsor
Data scientists
4
Electronics engineers
2
In the register as Zendar Inc., Berkeley, CA (+1 more)
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Overview
Zendar is a perception technology company that builds software helping robotics and autonomous vehicle teams deploy and scale. It is hiring a software engineer for vehicle motion planning and control and a machine learning engineer for model optimization, with an office in Paris. The company is headquartered in Berkeley, United States.
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Distributed High-Resolution Radar Elevates ADAS Performance
NXP's and Zendar's distributed aperture radar (DAR) modular platform is designed to work with the latest automotive architectures.
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Zendar wants to race in ADAS game with radar tech
Zendar, a startup based in Berkeley, aims to transform Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) in India with its radar-centric and AI-based solutions. Founded by Vinayak Nagpal and Jimmy Wang, the company promises to make vehicle safety technology more
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NXP invests in Zendar's high-resolution radar - Electronic Products
NXP is collaborating with Zendar to improve high-resolution radar solutions for autonomous driving and ADAS.
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恩智浦投资Zendar加速高分辨率雷达的汽车应用-电子工程专辑
- 恩智浦NXP宣布投资Zendar公司以推进面向自动驾驶AD和高级驾驶辅助系统ADAS的高分辨率、高性能雷达系统- Zendar的分布式孔径雷达DAR解决方案增加了雷达孔径提高
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恩智浦和Zendar Inc.加速开发高分辨率雷达-EDN 电子技术设计
恩智浦投资Zendar Inc.推动用于自动驾驶和高级驾驶辅助系统ADAS的高分辨率和高性能雷达系统的开发 Zendar的分布式孔径雷达DAR解决方案增加了雷达孔径提高角分辨率可实现类似激光雷达的性能系统解决方案简化、复杂性降低、更小的雷达占用空间OEM将从中受益
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NXPがZendarに出資、ADAS向け高分解能レーダーの開発を加速
NXP Semiconductorsは11月2日、高分解能レーダー向けソフトウェアのスタートアップ企業である米Zendarへの出資と協業を発表した
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UPDATE: NXP and Zendar Inc. Accelerate the Development of High-Resolution Radar
NXP and Zendar Inc. Accelerate the Development of High-Resolution Radar The investment aims to accelerate and improve high-resolution radar solutions for autonomous driving (AD) and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) to complement NXP's leading sca
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Zendar over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
16
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
62/100
Languages
C++
Python
Frameworks & libraries
CUDA
OpenCL
PyTorch
Cloud & platforms
RTOS
Developer tools
Git
ONNX
TensorRT
Practices & domains
Imitation Learning
Knowledge Distillation
Machine Learning
Model Distillation
Model Predictive Control
Motion Planning
Quantization
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$101k
Typical range
$101k
Open positions
1
1
Jobs
Middle
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middle | 1 | $101k | $101k |
Highest paying role
Software Engineer (Vehicle Motion Planning & Control)
$101k
Normalized to USD per year
People
Vinayak Nagpal
Executive Officer, Director
Ching Ming Wang
Director
Sven Strohband
Director
Kanupriya Gulati
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
25/100
Slowing
Open positions
1
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
45 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
11/03/2026
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
50% ▼
Robotics
50% ▲
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
2
Busiest office
Paris
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Berkeley
United States
HQ
Our Locations
2560 Ninth St, Suite #216, Berkeley CA 94710
Paris
France
1 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $101k Avg Salary
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$84k – $101k per year · Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Paris
Python
C++
RTOS
Robotics
Motion Planning
Model Predictive Control
Imitation Learning
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