QDIR, INC.
Mercury telluride colloidal quantum dot infrared detector arrays integrated directly on CMOS readout circuits
- Sector
- Semiconductors
- Headquarters
- Chicago, IL
- Latest Form D
- $385K, Oct 2026
- Total capital
- $4.5M
- Federal grants
- $4.1M
- 6 awards · 2021–2025
- Rank in peer group#7 of 17
- Private capital raised
- $385K
- 1 Form D · last Oct 2026
- 0 months since last filing
- Federal contracts
- None on recordNo federal contract awards found.
- Granted patents
- None on recordNo USPTO grants. Applications publish after 18 months.
Capital timeline
Latest events
- Private capital raisedForm D · SEC · 1st filing$385K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · Research And Development$2M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Room Temperature, Low Swap-c Infrared For Collaborative Combat Aircraft$75K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · Reduced Size, Weight, Power, And Cost Infrared Thermal Imaging Solutions For Drone Operations$110K
- Federal grantDefense · Phase II · HgTe Colloidal Quantum Dot Imagers for Longwave Infrared Wavelengths$1.5M
- Federal grantDefense · Phase I · A systematic approach to advance quantum dots for high-performance infrared photodetection$171K
- Federal grantNSF · Phase I · SBIR Phase I: Colloidal Quantum Dot Image Sensors for Low-Cost Short-Wave Infrared Imaging$256K
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Federal first
64months
from QDIR, INC.’s first federal award to its first private round.
- First federal award · Jun 2021
- NSF · $256K
- First Form D · Oct 2026
- $385K · 1st Form D
- Awards before first raise
- 6 awards
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Standing among 17 peers
Line = medianSemiconductors · Material
- Federal grants#7 · top 41%
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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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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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