AR
AI Radar
HomeDatabasePricing
Log inGet Access
← Back to Database

Katrix.AI

Paris · Founded Jan 2026

First seen Apr 2026

Founder RebootPrior Liquidation
Set Alert

Developing a hybrid real-time perception platform designed to provide reliable situational awareness for autonomous machines operating in complex environments.

Key Signals

10 Jan 2026 · Incorporation

Company registered

Katrix.AI SAS registered in Meudon. Minimal public information available.

Founding Team

Cristian Sandu

CEO & Founder

Seasoned technology executive, deep-tech founder, and multidisciplinary engineer with over 20 years of experience building and delivering cutting-edge systems in autonomous vehicles, robotics, IoT, renewable energy, and software-defined platforms.

Nicoleta Sandu

Co-Founder

Christian Jansen

Co-Founder

Programs & Affiliations

MITdesignX (Dubai)

Accelerator · 2026 · 2026 · Member

Product & Market

What they're building: Katrix appears to be commercializing this technology in two forms. The first is a Perception SDK, designed to integrate into existing robotics stacks through C++, Python, and ROS2 interfaces. The second is a hardware “Black Box” edge module, built on NVIDIA-class computing platforms and capable of ingesting multiple sensor streams for real-time processing.

Target market: Autonomous drones, smart infrastructure, industrial automation, maritime systems, energy monitoring, and defense-related applications, all sectors where reliable edge perception remains a major bottleneck.

Technical thesis: The system ingests inputs from multiple sensors, including LiDAR, radar, cameras, IMU, GPS, thermal sensors, audio, and ultrasound. It combines them through a fusion architecture that integrates machine learning models with deterministic processing pipelines. Rather than relying solely on deep learning perception models, the company emphasizes a traceable, explainable architecture for environments where safety and reliability are critical. The platform produces outputs such as: object tracking and environmental mapping, vehicle localization and pose estimation, contextual interpretation of surroundings, risk assessment, and safety signals for decision systems

Strategy

Current strategy: The company is positioning itself as a provider of mission-critical perception systems for autonomous machines, combining AI with deterministic safety frameworks. The company’s technology narrative, founder background, and corporate timing suggest that Katrix may represent a strategic reboot of earlier robotics work rather than a completely new startup.

Contact & Web Presence

Website

katrix.ai

LinkedIn

View profile

Email

contact@katrix.ai

Funding

Total Raised

—

Last Round

—

Est. Next Raise

—

French deep-tech startup Katrix.AI appears to be quietly relaunching a robotics and autonomy technology stack following the collapse of a previous venture founded by the same team. Sandu’s previous startup. QuadriBot operated in the robotics and mobility sector before entering judicial liquidation in September 2025, with a declared cessation of payments dating back to December 2024. Public records show that QuadriBot had developed a robotics platform known as RBOX, which integrated vehicle electronics, cloud connectivity, and autonomous driving systems. The company had a small engineering team and pursued projects in intelligent vehicles and robotics systems. Katrix appears to emerge directly from that ecosystem. Kartrix (spelled KarTrix in some materials) originally began in 2020 in Singapore as a software arm of QuadriBot, focused on software-defined vehicle platforms and fleet control systems. The new French entity appears to represent a relaunch or repositioning of technology originally developed within the QuadriBot ecosystem, potentially with a narrower focus on perception and autonomy infrastructure rather than full-stack robotics platforms.

Legal

Entity complexity: The company was incorporated on January 19, 2026, in Meudon as a SAS with €100 in capital, owned by Nicoleta Sandu (51%) and Cristian Sandu (49%), with Nicoleta serving as president.

Get the full picture on this startup

Sign up for AI Radar to access investor briefs, signal timelines, founder intelligence, funding data, and more across the French AI ecosystem.

View PlansCreate Account