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OpenLight Photonics, Inc.

GOLETA, CA · Founded 2010 · Semiconductors · Private

Custom photonic integrated circuits (PICs) using silicon photonics technology

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Sector
Semiconductors
Headquarters
GOLETA, CA
Founded
2010
Latest Form D
$3.5M, Jan 2025
Total capital
$41.4M
Federal grants
None on recordNo awards found in SBIR/STTR, NIH, NSF or DoD records.
Private capital raised
$26M
5 Form D · last Jan 2025
21 months since last filing
Federal contracts
$15.5M
15 awards · Defense, Interior
Rank in Semiconductors#24 of 707
Granted patents
23
17 pending · first 2023
Rank in peer group#25 of 224

Capital timeline

20092013201720212025FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $41.4M$8.6M$1.4M$1.9M1st Form D$900K4th Form D$11.5M5th Form D$3.5M
20092013201720212025FEDERAL ↑EQUITY ↓Cumulative $41.4M$8.6M$1.9M4th Form D$11.5M5th Form D$3.5M

Latest events

  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 5th filing$3.5M
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 4th filing$11.5M
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 3rd filing$7M
  • Federal contractDefense · Igf::ot::igf Advanced Components For Electronic Warfare (ace) Phase 0$249K
  • Federal contractDefense · SBIR II - Integrated Optical Thresholder Function$750K
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 2nd filing$3.1M
  • Federal contractDefense · STTR Phase I Topic N12A-T005$80K
  • Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$900K
Show 12 earlier federal awards
  • Federal contractDefense · Darpa High-efficiency Silicon Photonics Wdm Source$1.9M
  • Federal contractInterior · "high Power High Linearity High Speed Photo Detection Modules" SBIR 10.1 Phase II$1.4M
  • Federal contractDefense · The Goal Of Electronic-photonic Heterogeneous Integrated Systems (e-phi) Is To Develop The Necessary Technologies, Architectures, And Design Innovations To Enable Novel Chip-scale Electronic-photonic/mixed-signal Integrated Circuits On A Common Silicon Substrate. This Technology Is Expected To Enable A Wide Range Of Novel Chip-scale Optoelectronic Microsystems, Including Transceivers For Telecommunications, Coherent Optical Systems For Sensing (ladar) And Communications, Optical Arbitrary Wavefo$8.6M
  • Federal contractDefense · Integrated Optical Thresholder Function For Use In Optical Analog To Digital Converters (oadcs)$150K
  • Federal contractDefense · Baa - Fast Optical Switching$959K
  • Federal contractDefense · Ph I Research&development$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · Ph I Research&development$100K
  • Federal contractDefense · Performance Of Work In Accordance With$746K
  • Federal contractInterior · Sibr 101-008: High-power High-linearity High-speed Photodetection Modules$149K
  • Federal contractDefense · Darpa SBIR Phase I$99K
  • Federal contractDefense · Phase I SBIR Topic N091-034$79K
  • Federal contractDefense · First Status Report$70K

Node area is scaled to amount. Form D reports securities sold, which can differ from an announced round; filings are numbered in the order they were made.

Federal first

29months

from OpenLight Photonics, Inc.’s first federal award to its first private round.

First federal award · Jan 2009
Defense · $70K
First Form D · Jun 2011
$900K · 1st Form D
Awards before first raise
6 awards

An association in public records, not a cause or a prediction.

Standing among 224 peers

Line = median

Semiconductors · Device

  • Granted patents#25 · top 11%

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Founders and team

From SEC Form D filings
  • Adam CarterExecutive Officer, DirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings
  • Mario PanniciaDirectorNamed in SEC Form D filings

What it has protected

USPTO · 23 granted of 40
Show all 40 patent records

Related companies, and why

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.

How to read this page

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Data freshness

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