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Deep tech photonics venture raises €15 million in seed funding

Seed round to give cameras perfect eyesight

19 April 2025

Eyeo aims to redefine imaging with the world’s most advanced nanophotonic color-splitting technology.

At the heart of Eyeo’s innovation is a radically new way of capturing light. For over 50 years, image sensors have filtered light through red, green, and blue masks, blocking and wasting 70% of it. Eyeo replaces these filters with a layer of nanophotonic structures that split light by color, guiding each photon and color to the right pixel.

This change is more than incremental. By preserving every photon and separating colors naturally — through manipulating light instead of blocking it— Eyeo achieves maximum light sensitivity, true-to-life color fidelity, and ultra-high resolution through photon compression. In other words: images that are clearer, more detailed, and more beautiful than ever, even in challenging lighting conditions.

Eyeo' operates in a $25 billion image sensor market, with applications ranging from XR, industrial, security and mobile applications – where image quality is the top purchasing driver.