Metalenz, founded in 2016 is the first company to commercialize meta-optics. The company is backed by leading investors including 3M, Applied Ventures LLC, Intel Capital, M Ventures and TDK Ventures. The company has the exclusive worldwide license to the portfolio of foundational intellectual property relating to metasurfaces developed in the Capasso Lab at Harvard University and has more than 20 patents on innovations that simplify and improve optical devices across multiple markets
Location: United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $40M
Founded date: 2016
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| 08.11.2022 | M Ventures | m-ventures... |
| - | Bantam Gro... | bantamgrou... |
| - | Tsingyuan ... | tsingyuan.... |
| 27.05.2021 | Intel Capi... | intel.com |
| - | Foothill V... | foothill.v... |
| 09.03.2023 | Neotribe V... | neotribe.v... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 15.10.2022 | Series B | $30M | - |
| 07.02.2021 | Series A | $10M | - |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 16.11.2025 | Android phones could soon get a face unlock solution that rivals Apple FaceID | What Happened: You know how Face Unlock on some phones can be… “eh,” and easily fooled? Well, a company called Metalenz is about to change that, and it’s just partnered with a microchip giant (UMC) to start mass-producing its new tech. It’s... |
| 14.11.2025 | Metalenz and UMC Bring Breakthrough Face Authentication Solution Polar ID to Mass Production | , the leader in metasurface innovation and commercialization, and United Microelectronics Corporation, a leading global semiconductor foundry, announced Metalenz’s its breakthrough face authentication solution, Polar ID, is now ready for ma... |
| 05.07.2023 | Metalenz Pioneers High Volume Semiconductor Foundry-Based Lens Manufacturing | Illustration Showing a Comparison Between Conventional Multi-Surface and Metalenz Flat LensMetalenz |
| 13.10.2022 | Metalenz Raises $30M in Series B Funding | A 12-inch wafer made using standard semiconductor processes contains thousands of metasurface optics. Metalenz, a Boston, MA-based provider of metasurface optics for high-performance 3D sensing solutions, raised $30M in Series B funding. Th... |
| 12.10.2022 | Metalenz ships millions of its tiny cameras and powers up with $30M B round | The cameras in our phones, laptops and, increasingly, home robots and the like are about as small as they can get unless we start doing something different, and that’s just what Metalenz is getting up to — with great success, and now a $30 ... |
| 20.01.2022 | Metalenz unveils PolarEyes sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event. Metalenz unveiled a n... |
| 20.01.2022 | Metalenz PolarEyes upgrades digital sensing with polarized light | Tech sees differently, and can fuse multiple types of data we can’t even perceive: lidar, IR, ultrasonic, and so on. Metalenz, maker of highly compact “2D” cameras for advanced sensing, hopes to bring polarized light into the mix for securi... |
| 20.01.2022 | Metalenz unveils PolarEyes sensors that are 1,000 times smaller than a human hair | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Metalenz unveiled a new kind of sensor dubbed PolarEyes, which uses polarization technology to bring a new kind of sensing to camera-eq... |
| 27.05.2021 | Metalenz Launches Orion™, the World's Simplest, Most Compact Dot Pattern Projector | Metalenz Inc., the pioneer in metasurface design and commercialization, today unveiled the Orion™ product family, the world’s simplest, high performance dot projectors. Current dot projectors, used in mobile devices for features like facial... |
| 16.04.2021 | Bright Future for Phone Photography: More Compact, Better Smartphone Cameras Underway | Gabbie Natividad, Tech Times 16 April 2021, 03:04 pm (Photo : Getty Images (John Moore)) Smartphone Photography Just when you think Phone Photography can't get any better. Oh how far we've come! In the late 1990s, cell phones were equipped ... |
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