Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
ThinkingNews Desk · how this was written
Morphotonics has secured more than €40 million in funding to scale its waveguide manufacturing. The capital will be used to expand the company’s optical component production for data-center applications. The investment also supports the development of waveguides for AI-enabled glasses.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechCrunch·Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
Morphotonics raised €40 million from investors including 3M Ventures, EIB, and the EIC Fund to scale its nanoimprint lithography (NIL) machines for producing waveguide displays used in smart glasses and to enter the data-center optics market. The new capital will double staff to 60, support a machine that can produce over 6 million waveguides annually, and expand deployments from 10-15 to 50 systems in the next 2-3 years.
- TechMeme·Dutch nanoimprint lithography startup Morphotonics raised €40M from 3M Ventures, EIC Fund, and others, and plans to expand into data center optical components (TechCrunch)
- The Next Web·Morphotonics raises more than €40M to scale waveguide manufacturing for AI glasses
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