Scotland’s Singular Photonics secures €1.85 million to scale SPAD image sensors with on-chip computing

University of Edinburgh spinout Singular Photonics secures £1.6m

University of Edinburgh spinout Singular Photonics has closed an oversubscribed $2.15m (£1.6m) funding round led by ACF Investors, with participation from Wren Capital, Cambridge Angels, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential and Old College Capital.  Singular Photonics is a fabless semiconductor company developing single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) image sensors with on-chip computation, enabling breakthrough capabilities in machine vision,…

Scotland’s Singular Photonics secures €1.85 million to scale SPAD image sensors with on-chip computing

Singular Photonics, an Edinburgh-based fabless semiconductor company developing SPAD (single photon avalanche diode) image sensors with on-chip computation, has closed an oversubscribed €1.85 million ($2.15 million) funding round. The round was led by ACF Investors, with participation from Wren Capital, Cambridge Angels, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential and Old College Capital. It also announced that Dipesh Patel, the former CTO of globa…

Edinburgh spinout Singular Photonics lands $2.15M to reinvent image sensors

Singular Photonics has attracted $2.15 million in an oversubscribed funding round led by ACF Investors. Dipesh Patel, who used to be the CTO of Arm, has now been appointed to the board as the company is progressing with on-chip processing. The company states that its projected sales for 2025 have almost doubled this year and are therefore nearing the break-even point. Traditional cameras measure and average the amount of light reaching each pixe…