EqualOcean has been informed that Polarisic (Chinese: 北极芯微), a depth sensing and micro-optical imaging chip design company, has completed a CNY 10 million pre-A+ round of financing.
Founded in 2021, Polarisic is an emerging single-photon sensing and imaging chip design company with full-stack R&D capability in SPAD technology. The core technology team has more than ten years of experience in SPAD device R&D and mass production and is one of the first teams to study single photons in China. Founder Lin Wang graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology and has been deeply involved in SPAD device R&D ever since. He and his team have spent many years developing a fully independent SPAD IP.
SPAD is an optoelectronic device with single-photon detection capability that can realize distance measurement at the speed of light, achieving microsecond measurement time and sub-millimeter measurement accuracy, while it can perform image acquisition by photon counting, realizing night vision or high-speed imaging, and is the core device of the new generation single-photon sensor chip.
Relying on SPAD's full-stack R&D capability, Polarisic is building an intelligent perception product ecosystem for consumer electronics, automotive electronics, night vision security, intelligent industry, precision medicine, smart home, and other fields. At present, the company has two product directions: dToF depth perception and PCI micro-optical imaging and has formed a product matrix covering single-point, scattered, line array to surface array.
Mr. Wang Lin, CEO of Polarisic, said, "Polarisic is the only chip design company in China that has both dToF depth sensors and SPAD micro-optical image sensor products. At present, Polarisic has launched a series of mass-production products, including the DTS6007M dToF miniature module, the DTS5018 dToF chip, the PCL7150 PCI line array chip, LD series of high-performance laser displacement sensor movement, and has already completed the product introduction and started volume delivery in the field of sweeping robots, industrial sensing, drones, smart IoT devices and other areas of the customer's head. Polarisic's long-range dToF mini-module and multi-zone dToF micro-module products will also be released in the near future.
This round of financing was raised from GuoHua Energy Investment (Chinese: 国华投资), Rivercity Investment (Chinese: 瑞江投资), Boyu Private Fund (Chinese: 铂宇基金) and Hongtai Fund (Chinese: 鸿泰基金). Chinese: Hongtai Fund). The funds will mainly be used for mass production supply and new product development.