Si-Light receives investment from the Cascade Fund
Si-Light Technologies Ltd, a spin-out company from the University of Surrey (UniS) has announced that it has received seed funding from the Cascade Fund.
Si-Light will use this new investment to complete designs for demonstration prototypes of its patented silicon light emitter technology, and to deliver various milestones to bring the company to investor readiness. Si-Light's patented technology enables the manufacturing of efficient silicon LED's that emit light in the 1.2 microns to 1.5 microns spectrum, and which are compatible with standard semiconductor manufacturing processes.
Si-Light CEO Kevin Arthur comments: "We have world leading technology here, and this new award from Cascade puts us on track to demonstrate silicon LED's that will revolutionise the production of inexpensive optoelectronic transceivers, for applications such as rack-to-rack parallel communications, optical backplanes and fibre to the home systems. We are very excited about the prospects for this potentially game-changing technology."
Anthony Woolhouse, Assistant Director of UniSdirect, which works to maximise the performance of UniS in research, enterprise and knowledge transfer, says, "The combination of an experienced professional management team together with a talented technical team gives Si Light an excellent opportunity to develop the exciting inventions made here at Surrey into commercially valuable products."
Si-Light is based in the SETsquared facility on the Surrey Research Parkin Guildford.
