Best Sensors Companies in Florida, United States
The 33 best Sensors companies in Florida, United States in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Luminar Technologies.
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$7.1b in tracked funding; 75% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sensors companies in Florida
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luminar Technologies Developer of LiDAR-based sensors for autonomous vehicles | $136M | 57 mo ago | Acquired | Austin Russell Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | SanityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+15 | 171 patents Advanced automotive lidar sensing and adaptive laser ranging for vehicle perception | — |
| 2 | Sonavation Developer of a touch sensor based on ultrasonic technology | $75M | 79 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2004 | — | 125 patents Acoustic and optical biometric sensing, sub‑cutaneous imaging, and beam‑control technologies | — |
| 3 | DermaSensor Developer of an AI-powered skin cancer detection device 64Funding top 25%News top 29%Innovation top 35%Growth top 35% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 25% Newstop 29% Innovationtop 35% Growthtop 35% AItop 35% Producttop 35% Moattop 37% Techtop 38% Patentstop 42% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 34% Globalbottom 33% Funding: Raised $35.8M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 8 yrs (0.8/yr) News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 7 tracked, 3 types) · Top themes: Funding, Capital raise rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $36M | 13 mo ago | Series B | Cody Simmons CEO | 2009 | WordPressBetterDocsSentry+46 | 10 patents Non‑invasive optical spectroscopy calibration for skin cancer detection using elastic scattering | — |
| 4 | Canaery Provider of nose-computer interface to digitize the sense of smell | $4M | 52 mo ago | Seed | Dmitry Rinberg Co-Founder | 2020 | — | 9 patents Neural interface for scent detection animals enabling health monitoring and federated training | — |
| 5 | Sensatek Developer of radio frequency antennas and vision-based structural health monitoring | $2M | 76 mo ago | Seed | Reamonn Soto Co-Founder | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 6 | US Nano Nanomaterials for printed electronics, sensors, and high surface area applications | $924K | 150 mo ago | Funding Raised | Alexey Gusev CEO | 2010 | — | 243 patents Nanomaterial-based conductive inks, transparent films, and optoelectronic devices | — |
| 7 | IC2 Developer of sensors and sensing systems | $181K | 28 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2001 | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | — | — |
| 8 | Ocean Optics Manufacturer of spectrometers and optical sensors | $1K | 118 mo ago | Acquired | Mike Morris Founder & CEO | 1992 | WordPress Site EditorWordPressMySQL+33 | 63 patents Advanced optical spectroscopy, fiber‑evanescent sensors, and stray‑light suppression technologies | — |
Top 8 Sensors companies in Florida
#1
Series B · Miami, Florida · founded 2009 · 24 employees$35.8Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-powered skin cancer detection device. The company offers DermaSensor device that uses a combination of cutting-edge optical spectroscopy and artificial intelligence to promptly analyze suspicious skin lesions. The device shines light bursts on a lesion, captures scattered light spectra, and uses proprietary AI algorithms to assess malignancy risk for melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.
- Oct 2025Series B$16M
- Nov 2024Series B$8.9M
- Jun 2022Series B$10M
- Dec 2021Series A$8.5M
#2
Acquired · Orlando, Florida · founded 2012 · 800 employees$136Mraised▾
Developer of LiDAR-based sensors for autonomous vehicles. It develops hardware and proprietary software-enabled LiDARs, which can be configured with multiple sensors for autonomous driving. It comprises fiber lasers, scanners, receivers, and processing electronics. It offers a slim designed roofline attached to customized sensors. It provides hardware-integrated perception software for object detection. It offers features like the detection and classification of objects in a long-range, and the detection of the velocity of an object in 3D.
- Jan 2022Post IPO—
- Oct 2020Series C—
- Sep 2020Series C$170M
- Jul 2019Series B$100M
#3
Deadpooled · Palm Beach Gardens, Florida · founded 2004 · 36 employees$75.1Mraised▾
Developer of a touch sensor based on ultrasonic technology. It provides users with a company that develops a low-power ultrasonic sensor for touch sensing for biometric authentication applications. Their technology builds a detailed 3D template of a fingerprint with detection of ridges and pores in the finger.
- Mar 2020Series C$969K
- Mar 2019Series C$1.1M
- Jul 2018Series C$3.9M
- Jan 2018Series C$10.8M
#4
Seed · Alachua, Florida · founded 2020 · 8 employees$4.2Mraised▾
Provider of nose-computer interface to digitize the sense of smell. It is developing a neurotech device that digitizes the sense of scent that can interpret every scent entering the olfactory system and prioritize the ones that matter.
- Jun 2022Seed$4M
- Mar 2021Seed$250K
#5
Funding Raised · Gainesville, Florida · founded 2001 · 12 employees$181.5Kraised▾
IC2 is a spinoff from Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group of the University of Florida. The company researches and design sensors and sensing systems. The company has developed miniaturized shear stress and flow sensors, pressure sensors, optical sensors and sensing systems for MEMS-based instrumentation, flow control, acoustics and smart materials. The company has also developed instrumentation systems to measure, model and monitor various physical properties primarily for aerospace application.
- Jul 2024Grant (prize money)$181.5K
#6
Seed · Tallahassee, Florida · founded 2015 · 10 employees$2Mraised▾
Developer of radio frequency antennas and vision-based structural health monitoring. The company provides antennas engineered for extreme temperatures and video analytics using artificial intelligence. It offers antenna design, manufacturing, and testing for aerospace and other industries. The company's vision-based system monitors structural health and detects faults without physical sensors.
- Jun 2020Grant (prize money)$249.1K
- Sep 2019Seed$2M
- Mar 2019Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Mar 2019Conventional Debt$967.4K
#7
Funding Raised · Sarasota, Florida · founded 2010$923.9Kraised▾
Nanomaterials for printed electronics, sensors, and high surface area applications. The company pioneers breakthrough technology with printed nanowire layers, revolutionizing high surface area applications like sensors. Specializing in solution-based nanowires, they facilitate seamless integration of semiconductors into printed circuits. Expertise lies in synthesizing nanomaterials-based inks and inkjet-printed electronic devices, enabling the creation of diverse devices. These include high surface area chemical sensors, biosensors, photovoltaics, and infrared cameras. The company advances printed electronics, offering advantages like unconventional forms and ease of production, surpassing conventional semiconductor technology. This innovative approach caters to markets such as OLED displays, lighting, thin film photovoltaics, and flexible sensors.
- Apr 2014Grant (prize money)$747.7K
- Jul 2012Grant (prize money)$176.2K
#8
Acquired · Orlando, Florida · founded 1992 · 310 employees$1.4Kraised▾
Manufacturer of spectrometers and optical sensors. The company's product portfolio includes modular spectrometers, Raman multispectral, sensing software, service plans, light sources, sampling accessories, fibres and probes, education systems, integrated systems, chemical sensors switches, filters & shutters. It has applications in fields such as research and education, life sciences, environmental monitoring, authentication & anti-counterfeiting, lighting items, and energy technologies.
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$1.4K
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How research on Mems Sensors in Florida is moving
A read on the academic research around Mems Sensors in Florida — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 93 papers.
- University of Florida25
- Florida International University17
- University of Central Florida14
- University of South Florida12
- University of West Florida6
- Pressure sensor18
- Optical fiber5
- Optoelectronics5
- Electrode5
- Capacitive sensing5
- Pressure sensor8→15
- Piezoresistive effect1→6
- Capacitive sensing3→7
- Sensitivity (control systems)2→3
- Wearable computer2
- Catheter1
- Anorectal manometry1
- Compensation (psychology)1
- Limits of agreement1
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