PINC Technologies, a Caltech spinout developing integrated nonlinear photonic devices, emerged from stealth with $6.8 million in funding to accelerate commercialization of its platform.
The Seed+ round, led by Paris-based Quantonation, included participation from Wilson Hill Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, Hamamatsu Ventures, Qubits Ventures, Santec, and the Caltech Seed Fund. The company, founded on research from Caltech’s Nonlinear Photonics Laboratory, aims to bring scalable nonlinear photonics to applications spanning quantum information processing, communications, biomedical sensing, and industrial systems.
Photonics has long been seen as a key to faster and more efficient computing and data transfer, but progress has been constrained by the challenge of scaling nonlinear solutions. With growing demand in quantum technologies, next-generation networks, and medical diagnostics, investors are betting on breakthroughs that can translate laboratory advances into commercial impact.
“Our vision at PINC is to bring nonlinear photonics out of the lab and into industry,” said Farzaneh Afshinmanesh, co-founder and chief executive officer of PINC Technologies. “This funding allows us to scale our engineering team, accelerate product development, and build collaborations to enable new capabilities in industrial photonics, quantum computing, and biomedical sensing.”
Christophe Jurczack, managing partner at Quantonation, said the firm views PINC’s platform as “a critical enabling technology for the quantum era,” with the potential to become “a cornerstone in the photonics and quantum ecosystem.”
