North Ocean Photonics is a high-tech enterprise headquartered in Shanghai that focuses on wafer-level optics and optical integration. Its core products include wafer-level optical chips for 3D sensing, micro‑nano optical modules for vehicle-mounted LiDAR, and AR diffraction optical waveguides. The company reports its 3D sensing chips have shipped in the order of over 10 million units in flagship smartphone models such as Huawei P and Mate. It has put Phase I of its Shanghai Lingang Base into use and has entered substantive planning for Phase II following the financing. North Ocean is expanding R&D and mass-production capabilities for AR waveguides (the “Xiaoyao” series) and is iterating product performance and categories rapidly. Future R&D plans include vehicle HUD, super surface and super lens, optical computing and other new technology directions.

Total raised

$63M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Nov 2021