PHOTON IP raises €4.75 million for advanced low-power optical chips

PHOTON IP, a manufacturer of advanced low-power optical chips, announced today it has raised a €4.75 million seed round. With this financing, the company will accelerate the industrialisation and commercialisation of its breakthrough technology.

The round was led by Innovation Industries with participation from Faber and Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM) and with funding support from PhotonDelta. 

A single photonic chip

As optical communication networks, data centres for AI and cutting-edge sensing applications are critically dependent on optical chips; the core technologies available to efficiently integrate multiple materials on a single photonic chip are becoming a fundamental barrier. Existing schemes for photonic integration can’t keep pace with delivering the performance, energy efficiency, and small footprint required. PHOTON IP’s technology addresses this challenge by reinventing the way silicon and different III-V materials, such as indium phosphide (which are essential for lasers and high-performance modulators), are integrated onto a single photonic chip. This breakthrough radically simplifies the manufacturing process and opens a path towards mass deployment for advanced low-power optical engines for a wide range of applications.

“We’re not just advancing integrated photonics — we’re simplifying the manufacturing process for photonic circuits as well,” said PHOTON IP co-founder and CEO Rui Santos. “With our advanced optical engines, we’re setting a new performance benchmark and eliminating the barriers to efficiently combining III-V materials with silicon. This funding expands our ability to grow our team and bring our first products to market.”

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