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Applications are actually open for the 2023 SPIE Startup Challenge. The annual entrepreneurial pitch competitors is held by SPIE, the worldwide society for optics and photonics, as a part of SPIE Photonics West. In 2023, Photonics West will probably be held 28 January to 2 Februaryin San Francisco’s Moscone Center, with the SPIE Startup Challenge finals held 31 January.
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VitreaLab’s Jonas Zeuner pitching his solution to the highest prize on the SPIE Startup Challenge in 2022. (Photo: Business Wire)
The SPIE Startup Challenge is a aggressive platform for new companies that make the most of optics and photonics for progressive merchandise or purposes. Participating groups compete for sponsored prizes, along with gaining elevated visibility with potential buyers.
Light-based applied sciences allow developments in a proliferating variety of areas, from healthcare and high-speed communications to quantum computing, AR/VR/MR, and self-driving automobiles. The annual SPIE Startup Challenge – now celebrating its 13th yr – gives a particular and vibrant platform for optics and photonics startups which might be creating progressive merchandise, purposes, and applied sciences. Startup Challenge winners which have gone on to wider business success embrace Cellino Biotech, Double Helix Optics, PhotoniCare, C. Light Technologies, Circle Optics, and In A Blink.
The industry-judged competitors will hear from groups pitching new merchandise in photonics-enabled healthcare and deep tech, culling the unique candidates all the way down to 10 finalists. Competition judges embrace enterprise capitalists and business-development specialists from the photonics {industry} who will vet candidates for their business case, monetary case, and aggressive benefits. Teams making use of for the Startup Challenge will get suggestions on their business and pitch from business-development specialists and buyers.
The SPIE Startup Challenge software deadline is 20 October. Learn extra concerning the competitors, and apply right here.
About SPIE
SPIE, the worldwide society for optics and photonics, brings engineers, scientists, college students, and business professionals collectively to advance light-based science and expertise. The Society, based in 1955, connects and engages with our world constituency by means of industry-leading conferences and exhibitions; publications of convention proceedings, books, and journals within the SPIE Digital Library; and career-building alternatives. Over the previous 5 years, SPIE has contributed greater than $22 million to the worldwide optics group by means of our advocacy and assist, together with scholarships, academic sources, journey grants, endowed presents, and public-policy improvement. www.spie.org.
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