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$750K – $2.5M
4+ companies
8 partners
Investment Thesis
Invests in early-stage companies harnessing photonic innovations for industrial and automotive applications.
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LaserDrive
Astrape Networks
"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"
Dutch deep‑tech startup developing energy‑efficient photonic networking switches to optimize short‑distance data‑center traffic, especially for AI workloads.
Lumai
"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"
UK spin‑out from the University of Oxford developing optical‑computing accelerators to slash the compute and energy required for large AI models.
MantiSpectra
"Discovered via perplexity (medium confidence)"
Eindhoven University of Technology spin‑out commercializing chip‑scale near‑infrared spectral sensors to analyze material composition in real time.
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