Photonics startups in Israel
There are 29 Photonics startups in Israel which include Innoviz, Prisma Photonics, Teramount, Opsys, PacketLight Networks. Out of these, 22 startups are funded, with 15 having secured Series A+ funding.
Notably, several of these startups have been founded by alumni of Technion Israel Institute Technology, Tel Aviv University and Booth School of Business.
Here is the list of top Photonics startups in Israel
1. Innoviz
Developer of lidar based perception technology. The platform focuses on developing and applying lidar sensing systems that help machines perceive their surroundings. It supports processing three dimensional environmental data to enable accurate detection and interpretation for intelligent systems through an integrated online framework.
Key facts about Innoviz
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Rosh Haayin (Israel)
- Stage: Public
- Total Funding till date: $252M
- Investors: Magna, China Merchants Capital and 31 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jun 10, 2019, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 74/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 316 Competitors
Provider of optical fibre sensors for monitoring infrastructures. It offers hyper-scanning optical fibre networks that enable monitoring sensitivity for detection and target classifications with lower false alarm rates. It provides ultra-sensitive detection and intelligent learning detection using the pre-existing optical communication fibres as sensors. It has applications in multiple sectors, including smart roads, railways, powerlines, optical networks, and pipelines.
Key facts about Prisma Photonics
- Founded Year: 2017
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Series D
- Total Funding till date: $80M
- Investors: Insight Partners, The Israel Natural Gas Lines and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series D, Oct 16, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 61/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 192 Competitors
3. Teramount
Provider of packaging solutions for photonic integrated circuits. It invented the Photonic-Plug, an optical interconnect that packages optical fibres with a photonic chip. Its photonic-plug offers high assembly tolerances that allow for passive alignment processes, compatible with standard flip-chip packaging and wafer-level production. Its packaging solution enables the deployment of connectivity in data centres and other datacom and telecom applications.
Key facts about Teramount
- Founded Year: 2013
- Location: Jerusalem (Israel)
- Stage: Series A
- Total Funding till date: $58M
- Investors: Grove Ventures, Koch Disruptive Technologies and 8 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series A, Jul 29, 2025, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 56/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 1 of 6 Competitors
4. Opsys
Opsys-Tech is a developer of optical sensors for the autonomous applications & communication industry. It offers its products under four categories, RF Over Fiber, Sensing, Optical Switching, and Automotive. Products include RF links, media converters, pluggable OTDR, temperature sensors, strain sensors, OPX-M, and LiDAR. Additionally, it provides RF Over Fiber solutions for the defense industry, remote antennas, cellular base stations, aircraft, and maritime industry.
Key facts about Opsys
- Founded Year: 2016
- Location: Holon (Israel)
- Stage: Series C
- Total Funding till date: $51.5M
- Investors: Osage University Partners, 83NORTH and 5 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series C, Jan 05, 2023, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 55/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 22 of 316 Competitors
PacketLight provides WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) and OTN (optical transport network) products and solutions to transport data, storage, voice and video applications, over dark fiber and WDM networks. Its product portfolio include transponders, amplifiers, muxponders, ROADM and encryptors. It also provides customized solutions for specific needs of various markets including data centers, multi-tenant buildings & campuses, interconnection of SAN (storage area network) and LAN (local area network) over remote metro sites, etc. It raised a funding round in August 2004, participated by Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel, RAD Ventures along with existing investors Pitango Venture Capital. It became part of the RAD-Bynetgroupter subsequent to this round.
Key facts about PacketLight Networks
- Founded Year: 2000
- Location: Tel Aviv (Israel)
- Stage: Series B
- Total Funding till date: $29M
- Investors: The Carlyle Group, Pitango and 2 Others
- Latest Funding Round: Series B, Aug 04, 2004, $*****
- Tracxn Score: 54/100 What is this?
- Competitors Rank: 62 of 1,017 Competitors
