69 Best Laser Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Laser Startups

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There are 97 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $30.9m.

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$995.5m

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Luminar Technologies is an Orlando, Florida-based automotive industry company.

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$113.2m

Money raised

Glowforge offers 3D laser printers based on laser cutting and engraving technology that cut, engrave, and shape designs from various materials.

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$4.6m

Money raised

SA Photonics specializes in the design and development of advanced photonic systems for military and commercial customers.

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$24.9m

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.

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8

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$267.4m

Money raised

Formlabs is a 3D printing system company that provides digital fabrications for industries

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$1.5m

Money raised

Photodigm Inc.is a company that produces laser diodes for precision applications.

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$26.0m

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SpectraSensors is an Houston-based company founded in 1999.

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$15.0m

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Oewaves Inc. is a company founded in 2000 by Lute Maleki.

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$25.9m

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Cailabs is a developer of light shaping for manufacturing photonic products for telecommunications, free-space transmission, industrial lasers, and local area networks.

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6

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$87.5m

Money raised

Convergent Dental is a dental equipment and technology company.

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$2.7m

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LaserMotive develops optical power beaming-based systems to to deliver power wirelessly and minimize energy loss in transfer.

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Bridger Photonics, Inc. is a Bozeman, Montana-based company founded in 2006.

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$13.9m

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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 ...

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4

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$3.2m

Money raised

Pranalytica, Inc. is a company that designs and manufactures high powered midwave Infrared and longwave Infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers.

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$14.1m

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.

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$9.9m

Money raised

Andritz Powerlase Ltd. is a company developing high power, high energy lasers for industrial applications primarily related to materials processing.

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$1.2m

Money raised

Applied Spectra, Inc is a company founded in 2004 by Jong Hyun Yoo.

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$26.7m

Money raised

Innolume is a technology company that develops microchips.

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Eolite Systems, SAS is a subsidiary of ESI which specialises in Laser manufacturing processes

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$6.9m

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Pantec Biosolutions AG develops drug delivery solutions for a variety of medical applications.

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$36.0m

Money raised

Makeblock is a Shenzhen-based company offering a do-it-yourself robot kit for young learners founded by Jasen Wang.

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$38.1m

Money raised

SCINTIL Photonics develops and markets Heterogenous Silicon Photonics IC for high speed data communication and 3D sensing

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3

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$12.1m

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Laserax Inc. develops, produces and integrates laser marking, texturing and cleaning solutions for a variety of industries.

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$1.6m

Money raised

Hypermo developed a laser-based tool for glass processing.

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$9.5m

Money raised

Shenzhen Raybow Optoelectronics is a China-based technology company that manufactures high-power semiconductor laser products.

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6

Funding Rounds

$70.0m

Money raised

Ranovus is a company that delivers an innovative high-capacity interconnect solutions RANOVUS.

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$39.7m

Money raised

Laser Light Engines is a New Hampshire, US-based company that focuses on the development and manufacture of laser-based light engines.

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$2.3m

Money raised

German-based developers and marketers of laser and light systems used in dermatological applications

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Multiphoton Optics GmbH is a company founded by Markus Riester.

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$2.3m

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Sheaumann Laser, Inc. is a vertically integrated, US-based company that designs and manufactures semiconductor lasers.

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Industrial procurement platform for custom made metal parts

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$24.9m

Money raised

Manufacturer of innovative medicines and devices for comprehensive eye care.

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$85.9k

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Laser technology company providing proprietary solutions for high-end industrial applications.

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2

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$6.0m

Money raised

Poietis is a biotechnology company that specializes in the design and development of regenerative medicine therapies.

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2

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$9.9m

Money raised

Lumics GmbH designs and produces diode lasers for the medical, scientific and industrial fields.

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$1.3m

Money raised

Pilot Photonics is a company that provides photonic integrated circuit solutions .

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4

Funding Rounds

$16.7m

Money raised

Spectronix is a company founded in 2004 by George Okada.

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$2.6m

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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...

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$59.9m

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Lumitron Technologies develops and commercializes new high­‐fidelity imaging x-ray systems.

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3

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$17.2m

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Teradiode, Inc. is a Wilmington, Massachusetts-based company founded in 2009 by Bien Chann.

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$86.1k

Money raised

Tomowave Laboratories, Inc. is an Houston-based company founded in 2010 by Alexander Oraevsky.

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$14.6m

Money raised

Laser solutions for treating retinal and glaucoma diseases.

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$1.7m

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eagleyard Photonics GmbH is a photonics company that manufactures and sells laser diodes.

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$2.0m

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3D Metal Printing, part repair and laser cladding via Laser Metal Deposition

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$36.1m

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Amplitude Technologies is a company that designs and manufactures femtosecond lasers for scientific, medical, and industrial applications.

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CryLaS Crystal Laser Systems GmbH is a company that manufactures and sells pulsed and cw diode-pumped solid-state lasers

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$9.8m

Money raised

A company developing controllable and insertable drug delivery devices for retinal diseases

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$1.0m

Money raised

Azur light Systems is a company that develops, designs, produces, and commercializes innovative fiber laser technologies.

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$2.7m

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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.

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$2.5m

Money raised

Maxion Technologies, Inc. is a Jessup, Maryland-based company founded by John D. Bruno.

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$5.7m

Money raised

Uniklasers Ltd. is a tech firm specializing in creating high-precision lasers founded by Fedor Karpushko.

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GLOphotonics SAS develops photonics technology.

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$59.9k

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Is-Instruments Limited designs and develops remote sensing instrumentation.

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$275.0k

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Bandwidth10, Inc. is a company that brings revolutionary wavelength tunable Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser technology to the market

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$1.0m

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SurClean, Inc. is a company in Michigan.

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$30.1m

Money raised

Redfern Integrated Optics Inc. is a company that manufactures optical transmitters and subsystems.

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$15.4m

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$2.4m

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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.

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$75.0k

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3D-SensIR is a company founded in 2016 by Rengarajan Sudharsanan.

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$8.0m

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.

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$1.2m

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Spark Lasers SAS is an ultrafast fiber laser manufacturer.

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$142.2k

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Optotune AG is a company founded in 2008 by Manuel Aschwanden, Mark Ventura and David Niederer.

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Xarion Laser Acoustics Gmbh is a company in Vienna, Austria.

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Pulsar Photonics GmbH is an innovative high-tech company that operates in the field of laser technology.

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$2.4m

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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.

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$420.0k

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Stratium Limited is a manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers (QCLs).

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$1.2m

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Sydor Technologies is a company founded in 2004.

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$2.5m

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Klastech Karpushko Laser Technology develops and manufactures diode-pumped solid state lasers.

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$2.3m

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Axcel Photonics is a multidiscipline semiconductor laser manufacturing company.

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