LyteChip Inc.
Chip-scale spectrometer using silicon photonics and digital Fourier Transform architecture
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Newton, MA
- Total capital
- $1.6M
- Federal grants
- $800K
- 1 award · 2022
- Rank in peer group#7 of 49
- Private capital raised
- None on recordNo Form D filings on SEC EDGAR. Some raises are not filed.
- Federal contracts
- $823K
- 2 awards · NASA
- Rank in Semiconductors#128 of 707
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Federal grantNASA · Phase II · High-Performance On-chip Spectrometer for Space Applications$800K
- Federal contractNASA · E014042 STTR Phase II High-performance On-chip Spectrometer For Space Applications$775K
- Federal contractNASA · High-performance On-chip Spectrometer For Space Applications$48K
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Standing among 49 peers
Line = medianSemiconductors · Device
- Federal grants#7 · top 14%
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Founders and team
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Checked: USPTO inventors; federal award principal investigators; SEC Form D related persons · Oct 23, 2026
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No granted patents are on record.
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Checked: USPTO granted patents and published applications · Oct 23, 2026
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Sources
Federal grants from SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF and DoD records. Federal contracts from USAspending.gov. Private capital from SEC Form D. Patents from USPTO. Publications from OpenAlex. Regulatory activity from the Federal Register. Press matched on company name.
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Data freshness
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