Nexus Photonics

Nexus Photonics develops photonic integrated circuits using III-V semiconductor materials combined with silicon nitride waveguides on silicon wafers, delivering single-chip integrated circuits with unmatched performance, functionality, and size. The company's transformational manufacturing system applies proven semiconductor principles through wafer-scale fabrication, automated testing, singulation, and advanced packaging to overcome the greatest challenges in bringing quantum and other emerging technologies to market: manufacturing at scale and cost. Nexus's technology has applications in communications, positioning, navigation and timing, autonomous vehicles, robotics, measurement systems, human-machine interfaces, and metrology. The company has been selected by DARPA to develop next-generation optical detectors and funded by DIU to revolutionize quantum sensing with advanced photonic integration. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Goleta, California, Nexus Photonics has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Phoenix Venture Partners, BlueSky Capital, and IGlobe Partners. The company is also commercializing DARPA LUMOS technologies and has been featured at industry events alongside leaders like Google and Imec, presenting how its technology propels next-generation advancement for AR and VR applications.