The company is tapping the market of optical metasurface–– the most important revolution in photonics during the past decades
China's Metasurface photonics chip manufacturer Shan He Photonics (Chinese: 山河光电) has closed its pre-Series A funding round worth over CNY 10 million (USD 1.49 million).
Matrix Partners China (Chinese: 经纬创投) co-leads the investment, followed by exister backer CASSTAR (Chinese: 中科创星).
The proceeds will be used for product R&D, team expansion, and small-scale production.
Founded in 2020, Shan He Photonics is committed to developing metasurface photonics chip products for light metasensing, high-capacity transmission, microdisplay, and optical computing.
Metasurface, one of the cutting-edge photonic technologies, is to integrate multiple optical functions on one photonic chip based on semiconductor technology.
Shan He Photonics’ competitors include TuringQ (Chinese: 图灵量子), SunionTech (Chinese: 数字光芯), ZkoSemi (Chinese: 中科光芯科技), and Royma (Chinese: 俐玛光电).