The latest from InPHRED — company milestones, product launches, and where we've been featured in the press.
InPHRED has completed a $4 million seed funding round to accelerate commercialisation of its patented nanoporous InP DBR technology — enabling SWIR vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) for the first time at commercial scale. Funds are being deployed toward SWIR VCSEL product development, digital health prototype validation, and expansion of the company's foundry and ODM partner network across the US and Taiwan.
The company is actively developing custom solutions for Tier 1 OEM partners in sensing and digital health, and is seeking $20M in follow-on capital to pursue three market segments in parallel.
Company milestones, product launches, and technology updates across our SWIR VCSEL and visible RC-LED platforms.
InPHRED is applying its nanoporous semiconductor platform to two complementary product paths: GaN micro-RC-LEDs for ultra-short-reach optical I/O near advanced compute packages, and 1310 nm InP VCSELs for single-mode intra-data-center links in architectures such as MBO and NPO.
Read more →Profile of InPHRED's innovative nanoporous semiconductor platform and how it unlocks manufacturable InP SWIR VCSELs and GaN RC-LEDs for secure sensing, digital health, LiDAR, and lower-power optical interconnects.
Read more →InPHRED's SWIR VCSEL has met standard accelerated aging requirements, including high-temperature storage and high-humidity operating life tests, validating the long-term stability of the nanoporous DBR mirror structure.
Read more →Yale Ventures named Professor Jung Han a 2025 Blavatnik Fund awardee for an optical-based non-invasive continuous blood glucose monitor, developed using InPHRED's proprietary SWIR VCSEL solutions.
Read more →InPHRED has launched a cost-effective, mass-market SWIR VCSEL platform, starting with a 1,380 nm SA-series device delivering over 27% peak conversion efficiency for applications spanning AR/VR sensing, biomolecule monitoring, LiDAR, industrial sensing, and optical interconnects.
Read more →Yale Ventures recognized Jung Han in its 2024 Faculty Innovation Awards for helping bring InPHRED to market, honoring faculty whose inventions were licensed to new startup companies during fiscal year 2024.
Read more →The Yale Roberts Innovation Fund names Professor Jung Han as a 2024 awardee for his work advancing SWIR VCSELs toward commercial applications in 3D sensing, AR/VR, autonomous vehicles, biophotonics, and high-speed optical links.
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Profile of InPHRED's nanoporous mirror technology, and how it is reshaping photonics for SWIR sensing, LiDAR, wearables, and optical interconnects.
Technical discussion of nanoporous compound semiconductors for next-generation sensing, digital health devices, and more energy-efficient optical interconnects for data centers.