The future runs on light.

We’re building the tool that makes it.

The optical age

Tomorrow’s devices are built for light, but today’s tools were made for electrons.

Compute

Light between chips

AI moves ever more data between GPUs. Optical links carry it faster and with far less power, once they can be made at scale.

Wearables

Light to the eye

Everyday glasses that place information in view need optics that are thin, precise and manufacturable in volume.

Displays

Light you can see

True brightness and colour depend on optical structures that conventional tools were never designed to make.

Emerging technologies need a fabrication method optimised for light.

heatscatter

Every flaw costs light

Light travels in three dimensions. Any tiny bump turns into heat and loss.

one point at a time

Serial is slow

Writing point by point is precise, but cannot reach volume.

flat layers leave steps

Planar is rough

Stacking flat layers is fast, but cannot make smooth 3D shapes.

Our virtual masks are reconfigurable, scalable and truly 3D.

Every era is shaped by the tools behind it.

The optical age will run on virtual masks.

Backed by
Blank Space Ventures Tensor Ventures SANDS Silicon Roundabout Ventures Innovate UK Scottish Enterprise Henry Royce Institute