PHOTON IP is a Netherlands-based startup manufacturing advanced low-power optical chips aimed at reducing energy consumption and footprint for high-bandwidth communications and sensing. The company reinvents photonic integration by combining silicon with multiple optimized III‑V materials (for lasers, high-speed modulators and photodetectors) on a single photonic chip. Its approach simplifies the manufacturing process for photonic circuits and targets mass deployment of advanced low-power optical engines. PHOTON IP positions its technology as a response to limitations in existing photonic integration schemes that cannot meet performance, energy-efficiency and size requirements. The company plans to industrialise and commercialise its platform to serve data centres, optical communication networks and sensing markets. The recent financing will be used to accelerate that industrialisation and commercialisation.

Total raised

$6M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jan 2025