Iris Light Technologies has been awarded an NSF Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I award with partner Boise State University. The team is working to develop light-emitting photonic inks for silicon photonics.

Iris Light is proud to join Luminate, the world's leading accelerator for optics and photonics technologies based in Rochester, NY. Rochester has a long-standing influence in the industry, ranging from household names such as Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, to the recent addition of AIM Photonics (silicon photonics), and the academic power of the University of Rochester (featuring an entire college dedicated to optics) and Rochester Institute of Technology (home to one of the first microelectronics degrees). The region is host to hundreds of optics companies and thousands of optics professionals. Iris Light receives mentorship from industry leaders, industry connections, programming, and much more.

Iris Light Technologies has been awarded an AFWERX Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II contract with partner Boise State University. The team is working with the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to advance hybrid silicon-nanomaterial opto-electronic devices for silicon photonics.

One of the many New York connections that grew out of Luminate was an industry co-development project with Cornell to examine the atomic-scale properties of photonic ink. Thank you to NYSTAR for your support!

D3 is an initiative pioneered by the Rocky Mountain Institute (https://rmi.org/) and the New Energy Nexus (https://www.newenergynexus.com/) and major corporates including Microsoft and Shell among others. Iris Light was selected from a group of more than 620 applicants from 61 countries to join Third Derivative's inaugural class of early-stage climate tech startups called Cohort 417.

Iris Light was proud to be one of the presenters at this virtual gathering of climate tech supporters and innovators discovering the cutting edge of cleantech innovation in the Midwest.