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SmartSens / 思特威

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Shanghai STAR-listed CMOS image sensor company for security, automotive and machine vision (688213)

Xuhui District, ChinaFounded 2011Semiconductors
Valuation $5.53B Market cap · 2026
Revenue $1–5B Latest reported FY
EBITDA $241M Latest reported FY

About SmartSens / 思特威

SmartSens Technology (思特威 / SmartSens) is a Shanghai STAR-listed (688213) high-performance CMOS image sensor design company founded in 2011. The fabless firm focuses on CIS for security surveillance, automotive electronics, machine vision and consumer devices, with proprietary technologies such as SFCPixel and SmartGS. It has held a leading global share in security CIS and expanded into automotive via the Allchip acquisition and into mobile CS-series sensors. Year-end 2025 filings report about 1,447 employees (~694 R&D). Headquarters is in Shanghai Xuhui.

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At a glance

Status
Listed
Founded
2011
Headquarters
Xuhui District, China
Listing
IPO 2022
Sector
Semiconductors
Power Law
Unicorn$1–10B valuation tierThoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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News SmartSens closes $478M private placement for CMOS image sensors Oct 12, 2026

Investors

12 investors on the cap table

From Dealroom's funding and investor records, grouped by the round each investor first entered.

Series A1 investor entered at this stage

  • Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group (LCIG)

Series B and later11 investors entered at this stage

  • China Merchants Bank
  • China Development Bank Capital
  • Wingtech Technology
  • China Tobacco
  • Beyond Ventures
  • Haitong Kaiyuan
  • Xiaomi Zhizao Equity
  • Sequoia
  • CFT Capital
  • China Internet Investment Fund
  • TRANSSION

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Global footprint

Workforce and web traffic by country
Workforce by country
5 countries with
team presence
🇨🇳 China82.2%
🇺🇸 United States11.1%
🇭🇰 Hong Kong2.2%
🇫🇷 France2.2%
🇩🇪 Germany2.2%
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Web traffic by country
27K monthly visits
across markets
🇨🇳 China63.3%
🏳️ Russian Federation9.3%
🇺🇸 United States8.9%
🏳️ Korea6.7%
🏳️ Republic of5.2%
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Patents

Estimated portfolio value
$57M

798 active patent families included in this estimate.

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