Mojo Vision, a California-based computing company, raised more than $51m in Series B-1 funding round. The round, which brought total funding to date to more than $159m, was led by New Enterprise Associates. In conjunction with the funding, Greg Papadopoulos, PhD, venture partner at NEA, will join Mojo’s board of directors. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate the development of its smart contact lens, called Mojo Lens.
247MP CMOS by Sony
Sony recently released a 247MP rolling shutter CMOS image sensor available in monochrome (IMX811-AAMR) and color (IMX811-AAQR) variants which have a 64.84mm diagonal, a square pixel array, as well as 5.3fps.