en.Wedoany.com Reported - French company Kyber has completed a $5 million funding round led by Lightspeed. The Paris-based startup is developing an infrastructure layer for real-time control of remote devices. Its core SDK synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs, enabling data transmission with minimal latency.
Kyber's lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf is renowned for creating the open-source video player VLC Media Player, which has been downloaded over 6 billion times. Kempf believes that hundreds of millions of robots and drones will be deployed in the coming years, necessitating the construction of an underlying system that addresses latency issues in remote operation scenarios. The Kyber platform is designed to handle use cases where "the operator is not co-located with the compute, and the compute is not co-located with the action."
Latency control is a critical component of this technology. The company name Kyber is derived from the lightsaber crystal in Star Wars, emphasizing the importance of every millisecond when controlling devices in the real world. Kempf states that Kyber's approach to eliminating latency is rooted in video streaming technology, and the project initially began as a side project while he served as CTO at cloud gaming startup Shadow. Performance tuning in the Internet of Things domain is also a core technical focus.
Kempf notes that the largest robot fleets today may only consist of 2,000 to 3,000 vehicles, while Kyber aims to support device management at a scale of millions. When AI agents, rather than humans, are responsible for operating entire fleets, observability becomes even more critical. Even at smaller scales, the ability to remotely push software updates can reduce operational costs.
Kyber adopts a business model combining an open-source core with enterprise services, offering customized deployment services for enterprise clients through forward-deployed engineers. The company currently has 25 full-time employees, most of whom are forward-deployed engineers. Its headquarters are in Paris, with offices in San Francisco and Singapore. The company has achieved commercial deployments with clients in the defense, telecommunications, robotics, and AI sectors.
Kyber is currently prioritizing three areas: robotics, drones, and remote IT access. Kempf states that in the remote IT access field, Kyber aims to challenge Citrix. The company's recruitment page explains that many companies spend years and tens of millions of dollars building their own custom solutions, while Kyber is committed to providing "a version that everyone can use."
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