PARC Spinout Metawave Adds A.I. to Metamaterials for Autonomous Cars

A serial entrepreneur in the field of metamaterials is building a new company to develop the technology for use in autonomous vehicles and wireless communications.

Maha Achour co-founded Metawave early this year, spinning the company out of the storied PARClaboratories, a unit of Xerox, in Palo Alto, CA, with an exclusive license to commercialize metamaterials radar and antennas in two huge potential applications. In April, the company closed a “substantially large” seed funding round, says CEO Achour, declining to specify the amount, from investors including Khosla Ventures, Motus Ventures, Thyra Global Management, SAIC Motor, and Autotech Ventures.

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