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Semiconductor industry veteran takes the helm to scale the multimodal imaging sensor company serving growing physical AI machine vision needs from robotics and auto to defense.

Neurophos just rocketed out of stealth with an oversubscribed $110 million Series A to commercialize its breakthrough photonic AI chips that are up to 100× faster and more energy-efficient than today’s GPUs for datacenter AI workloads.

OCT-guided LIA device is "the missing link in bronchoscopy workflow."

NJ-based startup Sensetics has invented programmable matter that can digitize, transmit, and replicate the sense of touch.

Princeton University Spinout Led By World-Class Innovators in Computational Imaging

Amazon is turning to the startup world to find a potential fix for one of its thorniest logistics problems.

Retailers of all sizes have in recent years struggled with an uptick in fraudulent returns. The scam involves shoppers requesting a refund, but instead of returning the merchandise, they keep the item and send back an empty package or a box of unrelated junk.

The Seattle-based startup will attempt to demonstrate metasurface antenna technology for space-based radar

Total funding now tops $100M as a raft of new investors back the developer of light-controlling metasurfaces.

Neurophos, a spinout from Duke University and Metacept, has raised a $7.2 million seed round to pursue metamaterials and optical AI inference chips.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- LEADOPTIK Inc., a Silicon Valley-based medical imaging company today announced that it has raised $5 million in an oversubscribed series seed funding, led by MetaVC Partners with participation from SOSV, Sony Innovation Fund, TSVC, ENEA, Arash Ferdowsi (co-founder of Dropbox), Ray Muzyka (co-founder of BioWare), and others. This injection of capital will allow LEADOPTIK to move to the next stage of product development -including FDA approval - on the path to commercialization.

Silicon Valley firm to aim flat, silicon-based optics at augmented reality applications as Gates Frontier provides seed funding.

Imagia, a startup company working on metamaterials technology, says it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding, with which it plans to accelerate development and initial commercial deployment of its novel lenses.

Good day. MetaVC, a venture fund that launched in 2021 to back startups commercializing metamaterials, a budding area of materials science, has closed its debut fund with $62 million to invest in hard-tech startups.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- MetaVC Partners today announced the close of MetaVC Partners, LLC., a $62 million fund that will invest in early-stage, hard-tech metamaterials startup companies. Investors in the fund include Corning Inc., Gates Frontier, JSR Corporation along with other family wealth offices and institutional pension funds.

Lumotive, the Seattle-based startup company developing beam-steering semiconductor chips based around optical metasurfaces, says it has raised $13 million in a new round of venture finance.

Mangata Networks has raised $100 million (€95.4m) from (mostly) Scottish investors to fund the development of a satellite manufacturing plant at Prestwick, Scotland.

With more than $56 million in total financing to date, optical semiconductor company gears up for mass deployment of LCM™ chips

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 today the completion of their $33 million Series A funding round, led by Playground Global.

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

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.