Radar Reticence raises SEK 37M to fix car radar interference
Swedish deeptech startup Radar Reticence has raised SEK 37 million (roughly $3.8 million) to bring its interference-free radar software to a first customer pilot.
The seed round pairs a SEK 10 million equity investment with about SEK 27 million from the European Innovation Council's EIC Accelerator. New backers include Chalmers Ventures, Almi Invest, and East Sweden Capital.
Founded in 2022 by researchers from Halmstad University , the company builds signal-processing software that keeps vehicle radar systems reliable and free of interference.
As more cars pack in radar for driver assistance and autonomous features, those systems increasingly interfere with each other — hurting both performance and safety.
The EIC Accelerator backing carries weight, too. Radar Reticence is one of just 38 companies picked in the latest round of one of Europe's most selective innovation programmes.
The cash will fund the first pilot and help move the technology from validated to market-ready. Radar Reticence also plans to double its team.
The company still has to prove itself in real customer settings, taking its solution from TRL6 to TRL8 — validated technology to commercial readiness.
That leap is where many deeptech startups stall, and automotive sales cycles are long and demanding.
Radar Reticence sits at the intersection of two forces Europe is eager to nurture — early-stage deeptech and automotive safety — and its EIC Accelerator win puts it in rare company among the region's most-backed innovators. With Chalmers Ventures, Almi Invest, and East Sweden Capital lining up alongside EU money, the round shows how Sweden's research-spinout ecosystem is coalescing around signal-processing plays that could become standard as radar proliferates across vehicles.
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