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Duke ECE spinout building a vision sensor whose pixels run neural-network computation as they capture light.
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- HQ: Durham
- Sector: DeepTech
- Affiliation: Duke
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Overview
Durham semiconductor startup spun out of Duke's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, building chips that merge compute and vision. Selected for Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.
Product
RETINA, a retina-inspired image sensor made with ultrathin materials such as molybdenum sulfide, whose pixels run neural-network filters on the light they capture instead of sending raw images to a separate processor.
Team
Founded by Sanjeev Chauhan (CEO), a 2026 Duke graduate, and Tania Roy, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke.
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