As a spin-off and strategic partner of PhotonDelta, the European hub for the integrated photonics industry, we have in-house expertise that gives us a thorough understanding of the industry's success drivers and value inflection points. This allows us to identify and invest capital, time, and network into Europe’s best integrated photonics companies.
Why integrated Photonics?
Our world markets are in a digital transformation, which results in the progressive growth of data and energy consumption. Integrated Photonics harnesses the unique properties of light to overcome the limitations of traditional electronics-based applications. Integrated photonics technology enables a sustainable digital future by facilitating more compact, high-speed, and energy-efficient transport of data and systems. The diverse sectors harnessing these technologies include Data & Telecom, Medical & Healthcare, Engineering & Transport, and Quantum Computing, with many more cutting-edge applications on the horizon.
What we do
We invest in companies through their development, scaling, and exit phases. We connect entrepreneurs, investors, executives, engineers, academics, and industry experts across Europe’s Integrated Photonics industry to help our portfolio companies catalyze their success, enabling them to outpace their competitors. We support sustainable, innovative technologies that have the potential to serve a global market, solve complex challenges, and transform industries.
Our Vision
As global markets undergo transformation due to intensive digitization, and as the pace of Moore's Law slows down, the relevance of integrated photonics technology becomes evident in sectors like data management, communication, sensing, medical diagnosis, and quantum computing. In these fields, high-end solutions rely on the advancements of integrated photonics.
At PhotonVentures, our ambition is to develop integrated photonics technology to promote sustainability, inclusivity, and global connectivity. We achieve this by investing in innovative, differentiated companies that use integrated photonics in ways that create economic value and meaningfully impact our world.
We provide our portfolio companies with the capital, industry connectivity, and hands-on support they need to succeed, driving the development and dissemination of integrated photonics technologies and applications across Europe and beyond.
Our Mission
Those who create breakthrough ideas the fastest will generate new markets, exponential financial returns, and a better future for us all. At PhotonVentures, we create economic value with investments in innovative, differentiating deep-tech companies that can rapidly address a large global market, impact society, and maintain a strong, unique, and defensible technology position in integrated photonics.
Deep tech, and more specifically integrated photonics, has the potential to significantly improve our world. We support technologies that we believe will have a long-term impact through their innovation and sustainable technology.
Our Story
PhotonVentures is a deep-tech venture capital firm, purely focused on the key enabling technology of Integrated Photonics. PhotonVentures historically emerged from PhotonDelta, a pioneering force behind the European Integrated Photonics ecosystem. PhotonVentures is fortuned to be an independent strategic partner of PhotonDelta.
Founded in 2014, PhotonDelta has driven the growth of the Dutch Integrated Photonics industry, making significant investments in companies and R&D over the past five years. In April 2022, PhotonDelta received €1,1B in public funds from the Dutch National Growth Fund to help propel Integrated Photonics into volume markets.
The strategic partnership between PhotonVentures and PhotonDelta lays an even stronger foundation for success.