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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.

American telecoms company Mangata Networks is to set up a £10.5m research and development centre in Edinburgh, in a move that will create 38 jobs.

The business, which specialises in satellite enable telecoms services, announced the move after it received £3.6m in funding from national economic development agency Scottish Enterprise.

WASHINGTON — Mangata Networks, a broadband megaconstellation venture created by former OneWeb Satellites CEO Brian Holz, is one of 16 startups newly added the 5G Open Innovation Lab, an ideas-and-partnership incubator founded earlier this year by T-Mobile, Intel and NASA to help unleash the potential of 5G mobile networks.