Grenoble-based industrial deeptech company TiHive has raised €8 million to commercialise its vision solutions, expand globally across key industries, and advance next-generation terahertz chips with enhanced AI. The round includes the EIC Fund, Karista, and Wind, a €130 million Article 9 fund focused on climate adaptation.
TiHive’s platform uses proprietary CMOS terahertz chips for high-speed generation and detection, paired with advanced optics and an AI-driven software stack. Terahertz waves are non-ionising and enable see-through imaging, supporting applications from industrial quality control to sensing and secure communications. Integrating terahertz on CMOS enables miniaturisation, scalable manufacturing, low energy consumption, and high-throughput performance.
Deployed directly on production lines, TiHive’s systems provide continuous, inline, non-destructive inspection, detecting internal defects, material distribution issues, residual moisture, and thickness deviations in real time. Adopted by leading hygiene manufacturers, the multi-camera, multi-source setup has demonstrated industrial ROI and supports a large diaper-quality dataset, analysing millions of products each week.
The company is expanding beyond absorbent hygiene into regulated sectors that require non-destructive inspection, textiles and leather, recycling, agriculture, aerospace and space, for quality verification and impurity detection across the production lifecycle.
TiHive is scaling operations and expanding across Europe, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific while continuing production, assembly, and validation in Europe.
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