Dutch-Belgian imaging startup Eyeo has raised 40 million euros in Series A funding to commercialize its nanophotonic image sensor technology. The Eindhoven-based company develops waveguides that ‘sort’ incoming photons by color and direct them to individual pixels. This way, no light is lost. By contrast, traditional image sensors discard around 70 percent of incoming light through filtering. Eyeo’s technology, which originates at Imec, therefore improves light sensitivity, color fidelity and effective resolution.
Eyeo says its architecture enables sub-0.5-micron pixels, allowing smaller smartphone cameras and more compact imaging systems for XR, industrial and security applications. The new funding, which follows a 15-million-euro seed round announced last year, will support scaling toward production, customer evaluation kits and further sensor development.
