Swave’s Holography Vision Raises Additional Funding

eeNews reports that holographic projection startup Swave Photonics NV (Leuven, Belgium) has raised an additional €3 million in seed funding, taking the amount raised by the company to €10 million.

Swave, founded in 2022, is a spin-off from the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) research institute that is working to commercialise holographic chips based on diffractive photonics technology. The company’s business model is to be a component and subsystem provider.

The company has attracted US-based investors Acequia Capital (Seattle, Washington) and Luminate NY (Rochester, NY), an optics, photonics, and imaging accelerator. These investors have joined established Belgian investors imec.xpand, a venture capital fund centred around nanotechnology innovation, Flanders Future Techfund (FFTF) and QBIC, a Belgian inter-university venture capital fund.

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