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Jenny Johansson and Stefanie Najafi met at SÄPO, the Swedish Security Service, where together they brought over 20 years of experience from law enforcement. At the roadside, alcohol impairment could be measured objectively with a breathalyser. Drug impairment was a different matter, assessments were manual, subjective, and too many impaired individuals went undetected.
Rather than wait for someone else to solve it, they left their careers mid-stride and founded Sightic Analytics in 2021. Neither had a technical background. In the early days, they were told to focus on something they already knew. They pushed back, they knew the problem better than almost anyone building solutions for it, and that became their foundation.
Today, Sightic’s technology is built on the world’s largest naturalistic dataset of alcohol and drug impairment, collected from thousands of individuals across varying environments and impairment levels. Not a lab model. A system trained on how impairment actually looks in the real world.
In 2023, Dagens Industri named Stefanie Najafi Sweden’s most important female entrepreneur. Sightic has received €5 million in support from the European Innovation Council and has been recognised for its innovation with multiple awards.
In 2026, Sightic became part of Smart Eye, a global leader in human behavior AI. Together, we combine deep domain expertise with world-class technology to advance impairment detection across industries.
Sightic received €5 million in funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC) for our groundbreaking work. This funding underscores the global life-saving potential of our solutions and acknowledges our critical role in addressing a significant challenge that is harming humans.
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