Aircision is a startup based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, developing next generation Free Space Optics (FSO) systems for use in backhaul within new telecom and enterprise networks. Our partners include the Dutch National Research Institute TNO and Eindhoven Startup Alliance (which includes ASML and Philips), multinational telecom system integrators, universities, and innovative manufacturers.

Foundry service of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) in the Al2O3 platform to enable applications in the UV.

Since 2021, AMAZEC Photonics focuses on developments in ultrasensitive temperature sensing using photonics in the medical domain. It is envisioned this integrated photonics technology unleashes new modalities with regard to monitoring, diagnosis, and treatments with a major impact on healthcare. It is our ambition to become a global leader for medical applications using integrated photonics.

At Astrape, we enable the transition to fully optical data networks for a faster and more sustainable internet. Our products are based on disruptive photonics switching technology, which supports the exponential growth in data bandwidth our partners need with only a marginal increase in energy consumption. Astrape is part of the HTXL Cohort 8.

Bright Photonics BV is a design house for Photonic Integrated Circuits. Discover what a Photonics IC can do for your product or research. Contact us for + Photonic IC feasibility, + design layouts and support, + building block development, + design libraries, + circuit simulations, + prototyping, + manufacturing. Photonic ICs deliver you the next generation of performance for applications such as: + interferometry, + datacom & telecom, + structural and medical sensing (FBG, Raman, Brillouin, FOS, OCT). Technologies: + InP, + SOI, + SiN, + polymer, + glass.

Smallest and most efficient RGB laser. We deliver the ultimate light engines for projection applications such as Augmented Reality. Our light engines enable our customers to overcome the challenges of miniaturization, integration, energy efficiency, and overall comfort for all AR projection applications.

Bruco Integrated Circuits is the largest Dutch independent fabless IC design center focusing on RF IC, analog/mixed-signal IC design, and RF power application design. We provide design services and turn-key solutions from early system specification to qualified silicon and take care of the supply chain during product lifetime. Our designs can be found in many products close to home like mobile phones, lighting, industry, cars, and personal entertainment. Solutions to build upon. As a fabless IC design partner together, we engineer efficient and reliable custom ICs that bring innovative solutions for your application, add value, and help you advance to grow. Our team of highly skilled people consists of over thirty-five IC design and application engineers with bachelor, master, and PhD degrees with various backgrounds and about eight different nationalities. Bruco IC has a design office and RF measurement laboratory in Borne (HQ), the Netherlands, a design office in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and a design office in Berlin, Germany.

Chilas provides worldwide customers with narrow-linewidth tunable lasers based on hybrid integration technology. Combining high performance with low cost and low SWAP, Chilas’ lasers are ideal for many applications, including coherent optical communication, fiber sensing, LIDAR, microwave photonics, and biomedical applications.

CITC is a non-profit, joint innovation center specializing in heterogeneous integration and advanced chip packaging technology. We bring leading innovations in chip integration and packaging technology to market in a selected and growing number of application areas. As such, we provide solutions to societal challenges: integration for tomorrow. Evolving chip technology is not a one-man business. Collaboration is vitally important in innovation. CITC has created an effective ecosystem in which companies, research, and educational institutes work on bridging the gap between academics and industry. Together, we work on a new generation of packages providing smart, safe, and rugged housing for chips. CITC's contribution to the ecosystem is to provide access to innovation, infrastructure, and education.

Who we are COOLSEM was founded in 2025 with the mission to remove one of the biggest bottlenecks in high-performance semiconductors: self-heating. By enabling far more effective cooling, we increase device output power, improve efficiency, and reduce system-level overhead. The company is built on a patented technology platform, called WALTIS, and an experienced founder team covering all aspects of the business. The WALTIS innovation At the core of our approach is WALTIS — the wafer-level thermal interface stack. WALTIS is applied directly to the bare device after full substrate removal by epitaxial lift-off. This creates a unique thermal pathway that improves heat transfer from the device to the heatsink by a factor of 15 compared with conventional packaging. WALTIS is distinctive because it addresses all the critical physical requirements in a single stack: mechanical support, high thermal conductivity (≈250 W/m·K), RF isolation, and management of the thermal expansion mismatch between chip and heatsink. The result is that devices can be mounted directly on standard copper heatsinks, eliminating the need for low-conductivity composites such as CuMo or CuW. Compatibility with established joining techniques such as Au/Sn soldering or Ag sintering ensures straightforward adoption. Benefits for device makers This architecture delivers higher performance, longer device lifetimes, and lower cost per chip, thanks to wafer-level processing. By doubling the thermal conductivity of the heatsink and multiplying the chip-to-heatsink conductivity with a factor of 15, WALTIS opens a new performance window that other solutions cannot match. Competing approaches are either prohibitively expensive (e.g., diamond) or significantly less effective (e.g., phase-change materials).

Cubiq Technologies’ system enables significant reductions in power and cost for next generation high-performance optical and quantum communications systems.

Enabling more. For less. It's our mission to make label-free, multiplexed biosensing accessible to all. Assay developers need to validate next-gen biomarker panels for more accurate diagnostics. Academic researchers need to extract more data from precious samples to guide their studies. Pharma scientists need to speed up drug development by collecting extensive data from a wide range of samples. The merits of label-free biosensing? Label-free biosensing enables real-time, direct detection without the need for tagging target molecules. This revolutionary approach benefits a wide range of applications, from studying molecular interactions and accelerating drug kinetics-screening to selecting high-quality antibodies based on kinetics and developing real-time quantitative biomarker assays. Most platforms focus on one aspect—sensitivity, multiplexing, or cost. Researchers need all three. And the high costs mean it's only accessible for big-budget labs. Powered by photonic integrated circuits, Delta Life Science accelerates research by a factor of 4. By cutting ownership costs by a factor of 5, we make top-notch label-free biosensing accessible to every researcher. As a spinoff of TNO, we develop integrated photonics to create highly sensitive and selective biosensors. These are an order of magnitude more affordable, measure multiple biomarkers, and are extremely sensitive, reaching SPR sensitivity. Our chips and readout device can be used anywhere from medical research, agriculture to point-of-care diagnostic applications.