Effect Photonics attracts $40M to go to the market
Eindhoven-based integrated-photonics company Effect Photonics has secured 40 million euros in additional funding.
Eindhoven-based integrated-photonics company Effect Photonics has secured 40 million euros in additional funding.
Boudewijn Docter has announced his resignation as president and director of Effect Photonics, the optical-transceiver company he co-founded in 2009.
Roberto Marcoccia has been appointed interim CEO of Effect Photonics.
Effect Photonics has acquired Viasat’s optical DSP and forward error correction (FEC) technology, including an engineering team.
Five Dutch deep-tech companies have been included in the EIC Scalingup Top 50: Effect Photonics (tunable optical transceivers), Lightyear (solar car), Photanol (bacteria-driven chemical synthesis), Physee (power-generating windows, link in Dutch) and Smart Photonics (integrated photonics contract manufacturing).
No single integrated-photonics technology can do it all: they need to be combined for maximum functionality. The set of techniques to do that – hybrid or heterogeneous integration – is a key growth driver for the Dutch integrated-photonics industry.
Vodafone will soon start testing Effect Photonics’ optical transceiver technology in its mobile network.
Eindhoven-based integrated photonics company Effect Photonics has completed a series-C funding round of undisclosed size.
Effect Photonics is one of the winners in the Tech Tour’s Deep Tech Program 2020.
It’s been quite the journey, but Effect Photonics is finally ready to take the telecom market by storm with its tunable optical transceivers. In doing so, it will give the Dutch Photondelta integrated photonics ecosystem a most welcome boost, too.