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SPIE reveals Startup Challenge 2021 semi-finalists
16 Apr 2021
Finals of the annual pitch competition to be held 2 June; virtual training sessions also announced.
SPIE stated, âToday, light-based technologies enable developments in a proliferating number of areas, from healthcare and high-speed communications to quantum computing, AR-VR-MR, and self-driving vehicles.â
The Startup Challenge, now in its 11th year, is an annual entrepreneurial pitch competition for new businesses that utilize optics and photonics to create innovative products, applications, or technologies, and the winning teams share from more than $85,000 in cash and other prizes.
Indicator of commercial success
Previous winners that have gone on to wider commercial success include Cellino Biotech, Double-Helix Optics, PhotoniCare, and C. Light Technologies.