Arbe Robotics’ New CFO Takes Office as Company Moves Toward Scaled Production

Assaf Pereg takes over as chief financial officer of Arbe Robotics on Aug. 30, replacing Karine Pinto-Flomenboim at a point when the radar technology company is trying to convert years of development work into larger commercial programs. Arbe announced Pereg’s appointment earlier this month and set Sunday as the effective date.

The finance role comes with a mixed operating picture. Arbe has started shipping complete radar systems from a dedicated production line and says additional deliveries are expected as output ramps. At the same time, second-quarter revenue was just $0.7 million, operating loss was $9.8 million, and cash, cash equivalents and short-term bank deposits stood at $41.9 million at June 30.

Arbe’s Aug. 6 appointment announcement said Pereg would succeed Pinto-Flomenboim and quoted CEO Ram Machness describing the company as moving “from development into scaled production” while expanding its radar technology into markets beyond automotive. That is management’s description of the transition Arbe is pursuing, not a statement that high-volume production has already been achieved.

Pereg inherits the finance role during a broader leadership shift

Pereg arrives with close to two decades of finance experience across public and private technology companies. Most recently, he was senior vice president of finance at Ibex Medical Analytics. Before that he served as global vice president of finance at Nano Dimension, where Arbe said he led the global finance organization.

His earlier roles included chief financial officer positions at Aquarius Engines, Become Technological Solutions and CyberInt Technologies, along with senior finance jobs at Top Image Systems and Radcom. Pereg began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a certified public accountant in Israel, and holds an MBA in financial management as well as a bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics from Tel Aviv University.

The SEC filing covering the appointment described the change as following Pinto-Flomenboim’s resignation. Arbe did not give a reason for her departure in the appointment release. The handoff also follows another senior-management change earlier this year: Machness became CEO on April 1, while co-founder Kobi Marenko moved from CEO to president, with responsibility for long-term strategy, partnerships and other growth initiatives.

Production-line shipments are starting, but scale is still developing

Arbe’s operating story changed during 2026 as it broadened from selling radar chipsets toward supplying complete radar systems. In its first-quarter update, the company said it had established a dedicated production line and had begun shipping initial systems to customers in perimeter security and physical AI. By the second quarter, the company said radar systems were being delivered directly from that line for defense and homeland-security programs, with more shipments expected as production ramps.

A July agreement with an unnamed global defense and homeland-security systems integrator added a more concrete commercial program. Arbe said the integrator selected its radar technology for three projects, placed initial orders, and had already received first deliveries. The company said additional orders were anticipated during 2026 and 2027. The customer was not identified, so the size and economics of those programs remain undisclosed.

Automotive programs are moving on a different timetable. Arbe said its radar systems have been installed in robotaxi vehicles that have begun on-road trials, and the company remains involved in bid processes with additional robotaxi operators. In China, Tier 1 supplier HiRain is progressing toward production for an L4 vehicle program using Arbe technology. Arbe’s second-quarter financial update filed with the SEC said that production is currently planned for the beginning of 2027.

That schedule is slightly later than the December 2026 start of production cited when the HiRain program was announced in December 2025. The updated timing matters because Arbe has said automotive OEM adoption cycles are taking longer than it previously expected. Management still expects additional automotive design wins over time, but it stopped giving timing guidance for those wins because customer decision cycles remain uncertain.

Cash use and cost control remain central to the new CFO’s brief

The commercial ramp is beginning from a small revenue base. Second-quarter revenue of $0.7 million was up from $0.3 million a year earlier and from $0.5 million in the first quarter, but it remained well below quarterly operating expenses of $9.8 million. Arbe reported a $9.1 million net loss for the quarter and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $8.7 million.

Liquidity has also moved lower as the company funds operations. Cash, cash equivalents and short-term bank deposits fell to $41.9 million at June 30 from $53.6 million at March 31. During the first quarter, Arbe also completed an $18.5 million underwritten registered direct offering, with proceeds designated for working capital and general corporate purposes.

Management has been pairing that capital with expense reductions. Arbe initiated measures in the first quarter that it expects to reduce expenses by about 15%, with the full effect expected to show in the third quarter. The company is targeting quarterly cash burn below $7 million and has said its current balance sheet, combined with revenue growth and lower spending, extends the runway available to pursue its plans.

For 2026, Arbe reaffirmed revenue guidance of $4 million to $6 million and projected an adjusted EBITDA loss of $28 million to $31 million. Those figures remain company forecasts and are subject to customer timing, market conditions and the pace at which programs move from testing or initial orders into production.

Pereg therefore takes over a finance function that must manage two developments at once: early evidence of commercial production and continued losses while the business waits for larger programs to mature. The next operating checkpoints are already defined in Arbe’s own disclosures. Management expects the expense-reduction program to be fully reflected in the third quarter, while HiRain’s L4 program is now planned to move into production at the beginning of 2027.