Luminate accelerates the boldest optics, photonics, and imaging enabled startups. We are now accepting applications for our first cohort!
Location: United States, New York, Rochester
Employees: 1-10
Phone:+1 585-214-2400
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital; Accelerator
Portfolio 3
| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 25.04.2023 | PreAct Tec... | preact-tech.com | $49.6M | United Sta... |
| 25.01.2022 | OWL AUTONO... | owlai.us | - | - |
| 01.01.2020 | Haqean Inc | haqean.com | $100K | United Sta... |
Persons 2
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| - | Donald | Golini | Chairman A... | linkedin.c... | - | i**o@lumin... | - |
Mentions in press and media 10
| Date | Title | Description |
| 04.01.2025 | Swave Photonics: A New Dawn for Holographic Displays | In the heart of Belgium, a revolution is brewing. Swave Photonics, a fledgling company born from the innovative womb of imec, has secured €27 million in Series A funding. This is not just a financial boost; it’s a launchpad for a new era in... |
| 03.01.2025 | Seeing is believing: Swave Photonics raises €27 million for Augmented Reality smart glasses | Swave Photonics, a Leuven-based augmented reality (AR) startup, today announced the close of its €27 million Series A funding round that will help develop their Holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) platform. The funding will also enable a rea... |
| 22.06.2023 | Swave Photonics adds another €3 million to its Seed pot to bring the metaverse to life | Belgium-based holographic eXtended Reality (HXR) technology company Swave Photonics has announced it has secured an additional €3 million Seed extension which brings its total funds raised to €10 million. The firm raised its €7 million Seed... |
| 15.05.2023 | Uplifting Female And Minority Entrepreneurship | Sujatha Ramanujan is the managing director of Luminate a startup accelerator for early-stage optics, photonics and imaging companies. |
| 23.11.2022 | Daily AI Roundup: Biggest Machine Learning, Robotic And Automation Updates 23rd November 2022 | This is our AI Daily Roundup today. We are covering the top updates from around the world. The updates will feature state-of-the-art capabilities in artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Robotic Process Automation, Fintech, and hu... |
| 22.11.2022 | Luminate and Silicon Catalyst Form Partnership to Speed Development of Emerging Technologies | Collaboration will Improve Chip Design and Development to De-risk Early-Stage Investments Luminate NY—the world’s largest accelerator for startups developing optics, photonics, and imaging (OPI) enabled technologies—announced that it has fo... |
| 19.03.2021 | Nordetect’s system to monitor soil and water for indoor agriculture raises seed funding | As indoor farming expands, a number of new companies are cropping up to provide better data and monitoring tools for the businesses aimed at improving efficiencies and quality of indoor crops. One of these companies, the Copenhagen-based No... |
| 15.03.2021 | ‘Lab-on-a-chip’ startup Nordetect raises $1.5m, targets indoor farming | Just like their open field colleagues, indoor farmers are constantly working to optimize nutrient use. Denmark’s Nordetect wants to offer a helping hand by providing an on-farm test. “We have a tiny test cartridge, similar to what people us... |
| 17.10.2020 | Blackstone enters the electric bus and van race, plus the return of seed-stage solar investing | European counterpart to Tesla solar roofs SunRoof, a Swedish-Polish startup developing solar roofs and facades, raised $2.3 million in a seed round led by SMOK Ventures that included investors LT Capital, EIT InnoEnergy, FD Growth Capital a... |
| 14.10.2020 | SunDensity Secures $2.5 Million in Initial Financing for Their Smart Photonic Coating Technology | SunDensity is Clean Energy Ventures’ fourth investment since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March of 2020. We’re dedicated to continuing to make investments in promising climate tech startups and believe pushing this industry forward is cri... |