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Lumotive Closes Strategic Funding Round Led by Samsung Ventures
Aug 24, 2022
Source: Lumotive
New Investment Will Speed Delivery of LCM™ Optical Semiconductors to Enable Lidar 2.0 for High-Volume Consumer, Mobility, and Industrial Markets
Mangata Networks Announces $33 Million Series A Raise Launching Innovative Satellite/Edge Computing Network
January 11, 2022
Source: Mangata
Mangata Networks announces today the completion of their $33 million Series A funding round, led by Playground Global.
Lumotive Names Dr. Sam Heidari as CEO to Lead Lidar Innovator’s Next Stage of Growth
October 20, 2021
Source: Lumotive
Semiconductor Industry Veteran Takes the Helm as Company’s Disruptive and Scalable Meta-Lidar Platform Gains Traction in Automotive and Industrial Markets and Recognition as Provider of Next-Generation Solutions
Bill Gates Backs New Venture Fund Focused on Metamaterials
June 2, 2021
Source: The Wall Street Journal
MetaVC raising $100 million to invest in startups developing applications for metamaterials, a buddingcorner of materials science
These Materials Could Make Science Fiction a Reality
April 27, 2021
Source: The New York Times
Imagine operating a computer by moving your hands in the air as Tony Stark does in “Iron Man.” Or using a smartphone to magnify an object as does the device that Harrison Ford’s character uses in “Blade Runner.” Or a next-generation video meeting where augmented reality glasses make it possible to view 3-D avatars. Or a generation of autonomous vehicles capable of driving safely in city traffic.
American space telecoms company picks Scotland for £10.5 million European research centre
March 17, 2021
Source: Insider.co.uk
American telecoms company Mangata Networks is to set up a £10.5m research and development centre in Edinburgh, in a move that will create 38 jobs.
The business, which specialises in satellite enable telecoms services, announced the move after it received £3.6m in funding from national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise.
Megaconstellation startup Mangata Networks joins T-Mobile-backed 5G incubator
September 17, 2020
Source: SPACENEWS
WASHINGTON — Mangata Networks, a broadband megaconstellation venture created by former OneWeb Satellites CEO Brian Holz, is one of 16 startups newly added the 5G Open Innovation Lab, an ideas-and-partnership incubator founded earlier this year by T-Mobile, Intel and NASA to help unleash the potential of 5G mobile networks.