We track 71,000+ companies and rank them dynamically using our Seedtable Score – a score that uses quantitative and qualitative data points to signal the momentum behind a company. We then monitor the list manually leveraging our expertise as founders and investors.
There are 99 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.2b. The average funding per company in this subset is $31.8m.
Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.
Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.
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Funding Rounds
$995.5m
Money raised
Glowforge offers 3D laser printers based on laser cutting and engraving technology that cut, engrave, and shape designs from various materials.
8
Funding Rounds
$113.2m
Money raised
SA Photonics specializes in the design and development of advanced photonic systems for military and commercial customers.
10
Funding Rounds
$4.6m
Money raised
Transcelestial Technologies is a communications company that is creating a space laser network for communication purposes. It is located in Singapore and was founded in 2016.
6
Funding Rounds
$24.9m
Money raised
Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries
8
Funding Rounds
$267.4m
Money raised
QD Laser, Inc. is a company that produces and distributes laser semiconductor devices.
8
Funding Rounds
$59.8m
Money raised
Photodigm Inc.is a company that produces laser diodes for precision applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.5m
Money raised
SpectraSensors is an Houston-based company founded in 1999.
3
Funding Rounds
$26.0m
Money raised
Oewaves Inc. is a company founded in 2000 by Lute Maleki.
1
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Cailabs is a developer of light shaping for manufacturing photonic products for telecommunications, free-space transmission, industrial lasers, and local area networks.
7
Funding Rounds
$25.9m
Money raised
Convergent Dental is a dental equipment and technology company.
6
Funding Rounds
$87.5m
Money raised
LaserMotive develops optical power beaming-based systems to to deliver power wirelessly and minimize energy loss in transfer.
5
Funding Rounds
$2.7m
Money raised
Bridger Photonics, Inc. is a Bozeman, Montana-based company founded in 2006.
1
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M Squared Lasers explores, develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments that bring new capabilities, higher reliability and greater ease of use to a diverse range of industrial and scientific applications. The core team ...
4
Funding Rounds
$13.9m
Money raised
Pranalytica, Inc. is a company that designs and manufactures high powered midwave Infrared and longwave Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers.
4
Funding Rounds
$3.2m
Money raised
Oxxius develops and manufactures the DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers) and Laser Diode Modules in the visible, ultraviolet and infrared wavelength ranges. Oxxius's products have applications in the life-sciences, analytics, research and manufacturing markets. Its products have diagnostic applications in Fluorescence imaging DNA analysis, sequencing Confocal and 3D Microscopy, STED Flow imaging cytometry, Optogenetics and Ophthalmology. The industrial applications of its products include Material curing, hardening, Laser marking, Reprographics, Food quality control, Laser display, and entertainment.
4
Funding Rounds
$14.1m
Money raised
Andritz Powerlase Ltd. is a company developing high power, high energy lasers for industrial applications primarily related to materials processing.
2
Funding Rounds
$9.9m
Money raised
Applied Spectra, Inc is a company founded in 2004 by Jong Hyun Yoo.
2
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Innolume is a technology company that develops microchips.
3
Funding Rounds
$26.7m
Money raised
Eolite Systems, SAS is a subsidiary of ESI which specialises in Laser manufacturing processes
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SLD Laser is a Goleta, California-based electronics manufacturing company founded in 2013.
2
Funding Rounds
$4.5m
Money raised
Pantec Biosolutions AG develops drug delivery solutions for a variety of medical applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$6.9m
Money raised
Makeblock is a Shenzhen-based company offering a do-it-yourself robot kit for young learners founded by Jasen Wang.
3
Funding Rounds
$36.0m
Money raised
SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogenous Silicon Photonics IC for high speed data communication and 3D sensing
4
Funding Rounds
$38.1m
Money raised
Laserax Inc. develops, produces and integrates laser marking, texturing and cleaning solutions for a variety of industries.
3
Funding Rounds
$12.1m
Money raised
Hypermo developed a laser-based tool for glass processing.
6
Funding Rounds
$1.6m
Money raised
Shenzhen Raybow Optoelectronics is a China-based technology company that manufactures high-power semiconductor laser products.
1
Funding Rounds
$9.5m
Money raised
Ranovus is a company that delivers an innovative high-capacity interconnect solutions RANOVUS.
6
Funding Rounds
$70.0m
Money raised
Laser Light Engines is a New Hampshire, US-based company that focuses on the development and manufacture of laser-based light engines.
13
Funding Rounds
$39.7m
Money raised
German-based developers and marketers of laser and light systems used in dermatological applications
2
Funding Rounds
$2.3m
Money raised
Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a company founded by Markus Riester.
3
Funding Rounds
Sheaumann Laser, Inc. is a vertically integrated, US-based company that designs and manufactures semiconductor lasers.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.3m
Money raised
Manufacturer of innovative medicines and devices for comprehensive eye care.
3
Funding Rounds
$24.9m
Money raised
Industrial procurement platform for custom made metal parts
2
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Laser technology company providing proprietary solutions for high-end industrial applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$85.9k
Money raised
Poietis is a biotechnology company that specializes in the design and development of regenerative medicine therapies.
2
Funding Rounds
$6.0m
Money raised
Lumics GmbH designs and produces diode lasers for the medical, scientific and industrial fields.
2
Funding Rounds
$9.9m
Money raised
Pilot Photonics is a company that provides photonic integrated circuit solutions .
2
Funding Rounds
$1.3m
Money raised
Spectronix is a company founded in 2004 by George Okada.
4
Funding Rounds
$16.7m
Money raised
Opsydia is set to disrupt a number of industries by its ability to create practically invisible structures inside transparent materials. Permanent and inimitable serial numbers, images or cryptographic data can be laser-written without compromising...
1
Funding Rounds
$2.6m
Money raised
Lumitron Technologies develops and commercializes new high‐fidelity imaging x-ray systems.
2
Funding Rounds
$59.9m
Money raised
Teradiode, Inc. is a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2009 by Bien Chann.
3
Funding Rounds
$17.2m
Money raised
Tomowave Laboratories, Inc. is an Houston-based company founded in 2010 by Alexander Oraevsky.
2
Funding Rounds
$86.1k
Money raised
Laser solutions for treating retinal and glaucoma diseases.
6
Funding Rounds
$14.6m
Money raised
eagleyard Photonics GmbH is a photonics company that manufactures and sells laser diodes.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.7m
Money raised
3D Metal Printing, part repair and laser cladding via Laser Metal Deposition
1
Funding Rounds
$2.0m
Money raised
Amplitude Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures femtosecond lasers for scientific, medical, and industrial applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$36.1m
Money raised
CryLaS Crystal Laser Systems GmbH is a company that manufactures and sells pulsed and cw diode-pumped solid-state lasers
1
Funding Rounds
A company developing controllable and insertable drug delivery devices for retinal diseases
5
Funding Rounds
$9.8m
Money raised
Azur light Systems is a company that develops, designs, produces, and commercializes innovative fiber laser technologies.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.0m
Money raised
Brighterwave Inc. is a Finland-based company that provides laser and projection solutions for virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality, biomedical, and automotive imaging applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.7m
Money raised
Maxion Technologies, Inc. is a Jessup, Maryland-based company founded by John D. Bruno.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.5m
Money raised
Uniklasers Ltd. is a tech firm specializing in creating high-precision lasers founded by Fedor Karpushko.
8
Funding Rounds
$5.7m
Money raised
GLOphotonics SAS develops photonics technology.
1
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Is-Instruments Limited designs and develops remote sensing instrumentation.
1
Funding Rounds
$59.9k
Money raised
Bandwidth10, Inc. is a company that brings revolutionary wavelength tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser technology to the market
1
Funding Rounds
$275.0k
Money raised
SurClean, Inc. is a company in Michigan.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.0m
Money raised
Redfern Integrated Optics Inc. is a company that manufactures optical transmitters and subsystems.
5
Funding Rounds
$30.1m
Money raised
3
Funding Rounds
$15.4m
Money raised
Building on 15 years of R&D in III-V Lab, a common laboratory between Alcatel, Thales, and CEA-Leti, mirSense develops and produces quantum cascade laser (QCL) diodes and advanced photonic devices.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.4m
Money raised
3D-SensIR is a company founded in 2016 by Rengarajan Sudharsanan.
1
Funding Rounds
$75.0k
Money raised
Inprentus has developed a new method for manufacturing mechanically ruled blazed diffraction gratings for synchrotron, FEL and laser applications, offering high resolving power with blaze angles lower than 1 degree.
6
Funding Rounds
$8.0m
Money raised
Spark Lasers SAS is an ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised
Optotune AG is a company founded in 2008 by Manuel Aschwanden, Mark Ventura and David Niederer.
3
Funding Rounds
$142.2k
Money raised
Xarion Laser Acoustics Gmbh is a company in Vienna, Austria.
1
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Pulsar Photonics GmbH is an innovative high-tech company that operates in the field of laser technology.
1
Funding Rounds
Civan Advanced Technologies ltd. is a Jerusalem based technology company that specializes in the field of Fiber lasers, High-Brightness, High-Power Diode and and Optical Amplifiers.
1
Funding Rounds
$2.4m
Money raised
Stratium Limited is a manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs).
1
Funding Rounds
$420.0k
Money raised
Sydor Technologies is a company founded in 2004.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.2m
Money raised