Incari Raises $15M for HMI Development

The Incari platform is being developed in association with the Fraunhofer Society's Institute for Open Communication Systems and Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization and the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations in a cooperative research and development project.

FREMONT, CA: Incari, a Berlin-based start-up, is expanding its customer focus outside the automobile industry to provide a platform for new generations of human-machine interactions in other industries. Lukasz Gadowski is the principal investor in a 15 million dollars Series A funding round.

"Incari can be used wherever an interface between a human and a machine is needed," says Osman Dumbuya, CEO and Founder, Incari. "We offer an uncomplicated platform which allows developers and designers to work together starting right at the prototyping phase. Our system currently sees particular use in the automotive industry. There is, however, great demand in a variety of other industries such as health, construction, and aerospace."

The European entrepreneur and investor Lukasz Gadowski (Team Europe), who is currently leading the Series A round of financing, said: "Incari's approach is fascinating. I'm amazed by what the team has already achieved in the automotive sector. These experiences can be carried over to a wealth of other applications. Together, we're now looking to create a large, independent company which is active at the global level."

The creators will take the company to the next level of growth with investors' help, led by Lukasz Gadowski, after being supported in the early stages by angel investors such as Armin Pohls Wunderkind Invest. Pius Equity and business angel Gunnar Graef are supporting the starting team.

The Way Humans and Machines Interact Is Altering Fundamentally

The digitalization of society in both private and commercial life is altering our understanding of technology. Product specialization and the application of new concepts for interaction are causing a paradigm shift. In particular augmented reality, remote touch, and computer-brain interfaces, innovations in human-machine interaction are pushing the transformation process; after all, moving inside an AR environment or vehicle cannot be mapped with a mouse.

Simultaneously, the complexity of individual systems is expanding. Future HMI concepts will not be limited to screens but will also need a three-dimensional reference, such as when visually showing three-dimensional construction drawings on a construction site or remotely commanding a surgical robot arm. The Incari HMI development platform is addressing these issues straight on. It enables a development process that is optimized to meet the requirements of new HMI concepts and products. Incari's 3D-first approach eliminates the limitations of earlier tools that were designed for basic two-dimensional representation. Real-time rendering of dynamic processes and 3D models on a range of output devices is possible. This is what enables spatially referenced applications, such as augmented reality to be realized in the first place.

Strong Cooperation Partners

The Incari platform is being developed in association with the Fraunhofer Society's Institute for Open Communication Systems and Institute for Industrial Engineering and Organization and the Daimler Center for Automotive IT Innovations in a cooperative research and development project. Incari is also involved in the fields of neurotechnology and digital medicine, working on the future integration of neural interfaces, bio-trackers, sensors, and exoskeletons, to name a few. This is just one example of how Incari can be used in HMI systems of all types in both consumer and industrial goods. Using the Vred visualization software, the experienced founding team has already secured a standard solution in the industry. Incari was formed in May 2021 by the merger of its predecessor business ‘CGI-Studio, which had previously mostly been active in the HMI sector for the automotive industry.