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 148 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $4.9b. The average funding per company in this subset is $71.2m.
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
Quandela is a Paris-based company developing optical quantum technology integrated into photonic chips.
3
Funding Rounds
$88.0m
Money raised
GenXComm is an Austin, Texas-based company developing cellular mesh for 4G and 5G networks.
5
Funding Rounds
$29.3m
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
Horizon Quantum Computing is a Singapore-based company developing quantum software development tools founded in 2018.
2
Funding Rounds
$3.2m
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
ID Quantique is a company developing quantum cybersecurity products, quantum scientific instrumentation, and quantum random number generation.
1
Funding Rounds
$5.6m
Money raised
PsiQuantum is a company that is building a general-purpose silicon photonic quantum computer.
8
Funding Rounds
$1.2b
Money raised
Salience Labs is a hybrid photonic-electronic chips maker for AI founded in 2021 by Wolfram Pernice, Vaysh Kewada, Johannes Feldmann and Harish Bhaskaran.
3
Funding Rounds
$23.5m
Money raised
Xanadu is a company developing quantum computing and artificial intelligence technologies.
6
Funding Rounds
$137.1m
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
Owl Autonomous Imaging is a developer of 3D thermal ranging solutions for the industrial and automotive mobility industries.
4
Funding Rounds
$15.0m
Money raised
Luminous Computing is a technology company using photonics to improve the data processing capabilities of artificial intelligence models by attempting to create a supercomputer on a chip.
4
Funding Rounds
$123.0m
Money raised
Atom Computing Inc. manufactures scalable quantum computers out of individual atoms.
3
Funding Rounds
$81.0m
Money raised
QuiX is a company that makes a room temperature photonic quantum processor based on silicon nitride waveguides.
1
Funding Rounds
Quantum Xchange is a quantum fiber network that is based in the United States. It uses photons of light to physically transfer a shared secret between two entities.
3
Funding Rounds
$37.0m
Money raised
Company developing optical communications hardware for strong digital encryption.
1
Funding Rounds
$4.4m
Money raised
A quantum computing company using ion trap technology to develop commercial quantum computers.
3
Funding Rounds
$34.8m
Money raised
A company developing a scalable and modular quantum computer powered by photonics.
3
Funding Rounds
$30.0m
Money raised
UbiQD is a New Mexico-based company developing and manufacturing semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots for research applications.
8
Funding Rounds
$20.6m
Money raised
LyteLoop is a Great Neck, New York-based photonic data storage company using fiber optics to store large quantities of data.
1
Funding Rounds
$40.0m
Money raised
QD Laser, Inc. is a company that produces and distributes laser semiconductor devices.
8
Funding Rounds
$59.8m
Money raised
Sense Photonics is a company building LiDAR and 3D sensor solutions for autonomous vehicles, industrial robotics, material handling, activity monitoring, and other applications.
5
Funding Rounds
$48.3m
Money raised
Photodigm Inc.is a company that produces laser diodes for precision applications.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.5m
Money raised
Rockley Photonoics develops silicon photonics for applications that include including data center connectivity, autonomous vehicles and medical sensing
6
Funding Rounds
$249.0m
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
Qubitekk is a company that is making quantum technologies for scientists, engineers, and developers.
4
Funding Rounds
$4.3m
Money raised
Hesai Technology develops smart sensing technology solutions and manufactures laser sensors for LiDARs.
9
Funding Rounds
$601.2m
Money raised
Bridger Photonics, Inc. is a Bozeman, Montana-based company founded in 2006.
1
Funding Rounds
Reflex Photonics is a developer of rugged high-speed optical transceiver modules and parallel embedded optics products for space, defense, commercial aerospace, and industrial applications.
2
Funding Rounds
$5.5m
Money raised
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
A research and development company in quantum technologies and nanotechnology. The four core areas NQCG focuses on are Quantum Information Technology, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence Technology and Ontology Learning and Evolution.
1
Funding Rounds
Spatial Photonics is a Sunnyvale, California-based company.
3
Funding Rounds
$49.3m
Money raised
Augmented reality head-up displays (AR-HUDs) and automotive sensor systems.
2
Funding Rounds
$100.0m
Money raised
Innolume is a technology company that develops microchips.
3
Funding Rounds
$26.7m
Money raised
Single Quantum is a company making optical imaging and telecommunication systems founded in 2012 by Sander Dorenbos.
1
Funding Rounds
$60.2k
Money raised
Diagnostic Photonics develops medical imaging technologies for the healthcare market.
8
Funding Rounds
$11.2m
Money raised
Eolite Systems, SAS is a subsidiary of ESI which specialises in Laser manufacturing processes
1
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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
Eblana Photonics Ltd. is a photonics company located in Dublin, Ireland.
2
Funding Rounds
$601.4k
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
EFFECT Photonics B.V. is a photonics company making communication products.
4
Funding Rounds
$2.9m
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
Lumetrics develops and produces precision thickness measurement and optical inspection systems for a variety of industries.
1
Funding Rounds
$1.3m
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