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PhotonVentures
Venture capital · Netherlands · Europe
PhotonVentures is an independent European venture capital firm focused exclusively on photonics. It invests in photonics companies and provides portfolio companies with capital, industry connectivity and hands-on support.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingCybersecurity
In its own wordsphotonicsdeep techsemiconductorsquantumaihealthcare
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Or find every investor that fitsPhotonVentures lists 21 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 1 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (29%), Industrial & Manufacturing (24%) and Cybersecurity (18%). 57% of its companies are based in Netherlands. It invests most often alongside Innovation Industries, 3LB Seed Capital and Brabant Development Agency (BOM).
Counts come from funding rounds that name PhotonVentures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not PhotonVentures' whole history. Rounds on record name 5 companies; its own site lists 21. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 0% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 3 | 1 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 82th | 4 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 95th | 25% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 50th | 29% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 88th | 7 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 29% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 24% | 7% |
| Cybersecurity | 18% | 4% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 12% | 15% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
| Robotics & Hardware | 6% | 1% |
| Human Resources | 3% | 1% |
| Space & Defense | 3% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Innovation Industries | 4 |
| 3LB Seed Capital | 2 |
| Brabant Development Agency (BOM) | 2 |
| Constructor Capital | 2 |
| FORWARD.one | 2 |
| Join Capital | 2 |
| LIFTT | 2 |
| APEX Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers21100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with Innovation Industries
Compare PhotonVentures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with PhotonVentures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 31 Mar 2026 | Round | |
| 7 Jan 2026 | Series A | |
| 20 Nov 2025 | Seed | |
| 2 Apr 2025 | Series A |
Round details for PhotonVentures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in PhotonVentures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
21 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arycs Technologies enables high capacity links while staying within strict power limits required by modern data center and AI infrastructure. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Astrape Networks makes the physical layer of networks self-adaptable | AI & Machine LearningHuman Resources | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops and manufactures miniature integrated RGB laser chips for laser displays and other applications. | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Mar 2026Round | Page + round | |
| CUbIQ Technologies is developing a compact, low-power electronic-photonic integrated transceiver for quantum key distribution | CybersecurityAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Delta Life Science provides label-free biosensing products and services for biomolecular research and development | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| EFFECT Photonics develops and manufactures integrated tunable lasers and laser assemblies for telecommunications and other applications | Industrial & ManufacturingConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| EFI is a medical technology and device company that develops haptic-feedback platforms for laparoscopic minimal invasive surgery | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Golbriak Space provides optical communication solutions for aerospace | AI & Machine LearningSpace & Defense | Oct 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| LioniX International designs and manufactures custom MEMS and photonic integrated circuits | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Lumai develops optical compute technology for artificial intelligence applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Apr 2025Series A | Page + round | |
| MantiSpectra develops and manufactures a compact spectral sensor for accurate, real-time, non-destructive material analysis | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops photonic memory technology to improve computing performance for AI and high-performance applications. | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| MicroAlign produces fiber arrays with actively aligned fiber cores for optical networks and photonic chips | Industrial & ManufacturingRobotics & Hardware | Portfolio page | ||
| Ncodin develops optical interconnect technology for high performance computing and other applications | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Nov 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| PHIX provides an assembly and packaging service for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| PhotonFirst develops and provides fiber optic sensing solutions to measure various physical properties such as temperature, pressure, and strain. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Quix Quantum develops and manufactures photonic quantum computing hardware | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Scantinel Photonics makes LiDAR sensors for autonomous driving | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| SMART Photonics builds chips that use light instead of electrons, so information can move faster and with far less power. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
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About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- photonventures.vc
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 5 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 2 Apr 2025
- Companies checked
- 21
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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