PINC Technologies, a 2023 Caltech spin-out headquartered in Pasadena, CA, is building an integrated nonlinear photonics platform that makes high-performance light-based computing and communications practical at scale. Its chips and circuits target demanding use cases such as quantum information processing, next-generation data networks, biomedical sensing, and other industrial photonics systems. The company leverages research breakthroughs from the Caltech Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory to overcome long-standing scalability limits in nonlinear optics. Management plans to expand the engineering team, accelerate product development, and forge industrial collaborations to move the technology from lab prototypes to commercial deployment. PINC has raised a cumulative $6.8 million to fund these efforts, positioning the company to deliver critical enabling components for the emerging quantum and photonic ecosystems.

Total raised

$7M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Oct 2025