Best Display Technology Companies in Germany
The 33 best Display Technology companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Plastic Logic.
Ranked: Best Display Technology companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Plastic Logic Flexible glass-free plastic display solutions 53Talent top 15%Moat top 25%Product top 26%Funding top 30% All 11 signals ▾Talenttop 15% Moattop 25% Producttop 26% Fundingtop 30% Markettop 46% Patentstop 48% Innovationbottom 48% Globalbottom 46% Growthbottom 42% Techbottom 39% Newsbottom 22% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 6/10 · IP moat: 26 patents rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $393M | 88 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2000 | — | 29 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 2 | Cynora Blue organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) emitters provider 53Product top 26%Patents top 28%Moat top 28%Talent top 28% All 11 signals ▾Producttop 26% Patentstop 28% Moattop 28% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 33% Fundingtop 35% Markettop 46% Globalbottom 46% Growthbottom 42% Techbottom 30% Newsbottom 22% Product: 4 distinct product lines · Company stage: Acquired Patents: 842 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 85 filings since 2022 vs 563 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $80M | 89 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2008 | — | 725 patents OLED organic semiconductor materials for blue and green light emission | — |
| 3 | Novaled OLED manufacturer and technology developer 64Patents top 14%Fin. health top 16%Innovation top 23%Product top 26% All 12 signals ▾Patentstop 14% Fin. healthtop 16% Innovationtop 23% Producttop 26% Moattop 28% Fundingtop 42% Markettop 43% Growthtop 49% Talentbottom 49% Globalbottom 46% Newsbottom 44% Techbottom 26% Patents: 2,306 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 802 filings since 2022 vs 637 in 2017-21 Fin. health: Revenue ~$147M (FY2021) · Net margin 48.8% rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $29M | 136 mo ago | Acquired | Gerd Gunther CEO | 2003 | TYPO3 CMSPHPVideoJS+6 | 1,958 patents Organic light‑emitting materials and devices for OLED displays and lighting | — |
| 4 | beeOLED Highly efficient blue emitter OLED technology 40Moat top 25%Talent top 28%Innovation top 33%Patents top 36% All 7 signals ▾Moattop 25% Talenttop 28% Innovationtop 33% Patentstop 36% Fundingtop 45% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 23% Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · IP moat: 36 patents Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $14M | 38 mo ago | Series A | Volodymyr Senkovskyy Co-Founder & Managing Director | 2020 | — | 30 patents Europium-based metal‑organic phosphors for spin‑controlled electroluminescent OLEDs | — |
| 5 | Inuru Developer of printed organic light-emitting diode technology for various applications 22Global top 44%Funding top 45%Patents top 50%Tech bottom 49% All 9 signals ▾Globaltop 44% Fundingtop 45% Patentstop 50% Techbottom 49% Productbottom 45% Innovationbottom 38% Growthbottom 35% Marketbottom 32% Newsbottom 22% Global: Legal entities in 2 countries: Germany, Poland · Investors from 2 countries beyond Germany Funding: Raised $12.9M across 4 rounds · 4 rounds over 10 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 22/100 | $13M | 36 mo ago | Series A | — | 2012 | WebflowCloudflare TurnstilereCAPTCHA+13 | 30 patents Advanced optoelectronic packaging, diffusion‑blocking barrier layers, and sol‑gel printed interconnects | — |
| 6 | Vioso Develops technologies for projected displays | $817K | 227 mo ago | Seed | Benjamin Fritsch CEO & Founder | 2007 | WordPressMySQLPHP+18 | — | — |
| 7 | 3D Global Manufacturer of autostereoscopic 3D displays | — | — | Unfunded | Matthew Hohenstein Managing Director | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | 4D-Vision Manufacturer of glasses-free 3D hardware technology and its supporting software. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1998 | — | 36 patents Ergonomic fitness machines and veterinary glaucoma drainage devices | — |
Top 6 Display Technology companies in Germany
#1
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2012 · 31 employees$12.9Mraised▾
Developer of printed organic light-emitting diode technology for various applications. The company focuses on simplifying OLED production through printing to reduce costs. This technology can be integrated into medical packaging, clothing, and marketing materials. The aim is to create affordable and recyclable lighting and display solutions.
- Oct 2023Series A$10M
- Jun 2020Series A$2.6M
- Jul 2019Seed—
- Oct 2018Grant (prize money)$230K
#2
Series A · Dresden, Saxony · founded 2020 · 13 employees$14.5Mraised▾
Diverse OLED display systems. It manufactures deep-blue emitters for OLED displays. Its applications are in smartphones, TVs, cars, and virtual reality displays.
- Aug 2023Series A$14.5M
#3
Acquired · Dresden, Saxony · founded 2000 · 105 employees$393.4Mraised▾
Plastic Logic is a spinoff from Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge University. It is an organic electronics company developing flexible plastic electronics displays. It uses organic thin film transistor (OTFT) technology which enables electronics to be manufactured on plastic. It claims to have developed the world's first flexible image sensor on plastic in collaboration with ISORG.
#4
Acquired · Bruchsal, Baden Wurttemberg · founded 2008 · 116 employees$80Mraised▾
Cynora develops blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emitters. The company's focus is on the TADF (thermally activated delayed fluorescence) technology, which it claims to help achieve efficient blue emission and allows the development of OLEDs displays with significantly reduced power consumption while simultaneously improving display resolution.
- May 2019Series C$25M
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$31.6K
- Sep 2017Series B$30M
- Jan 2015Grant (prize money)$544K
#5
Acquired · Dresden, Saxony · founded 2003 · 144 employees$29Mraised▾
Novaled, a subsidiary of samsung now, provides organic materials and complementary technologies for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) in display, lighting, and organic semiconductor markets worldwide. The company develops various materials, such as a dopant, transport, interlayer, and outcoupling materials for OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaic applications, and other organic electronic devices. It also markets its advanced Novaled PIN OLED® technology to display and lighting makers
- Jul 2015Grant (prize money)$620.9K
- Feb 2015Grant (prize money)$1.3M
- Sep 2011Series D—
- Jan 2009Series C$11.3M
#6
Seed · Dusseldorf, North Rhine Westphalia · founded 2007 · 10 employees$817Kraised▾
VIOSO started in 2005 as a startup from the university of Weimar with the “smartprojector” project and in 2007 VIOSO GmbH was founded. VIOSO provides both software and hardware technologies that are able to address different types of scalable projected displays. VIOSO GmbH develops multi-projector setups and mediaserver technology. The Company offers smart projecting expert software that enables projection displays on various surfaces in advertisements, stalactite caves, observatories, factory examples, rock faces, and natural stage applications.
- Nov 2007Seed$817K
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