Best Photonics Companies in Israel
The 34 best Photonics companies in Israel in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Innoviz.
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Ranked: Best Photonics companies in Israel
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innoviz Developer of LiDAR sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles | $252M | 88 mo ago | 468 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 2 | ColorChip Provider of application-specific photonic ICs for applications in data centres | $97M | 114 mo ago | 65 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+12 | Top 50M | 2 patents Manufacturing monitoring of planar lightwave circuit surfaces and reflective optical coupler design | — |
| 3 | DustPhotonics Provider of silicon-based photonic ICs | $82M | 32 mo ago | 50 | Ronnen Lovinger Chief Executive Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | Top 5M | 28 patents Photonic integration: laser alignment fixtures, chip coupling, optical amplifiers, modulators, detectors | — |
| 4 | Quantum Source Developer of quantum computers with qubits 76AI top 15%Growth top 20%Funding top 27%Innovation top 28% All 11 signals ▾AItop 15% Growthtop 20% Fundingtop 27% Innovationtop 28% Moattop 32% Patentstop 36% Talenttop 38% Techbottom 48% Marketbottom 38% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 22% AI: Holds AI/ML patents (G06N-family CPC) Growth: Web rank 50,000,000 → 5,000,000 YoY · Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 76/100 | $77M | 25 mo ago | 30 | Oded Melamed Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowUploadcarejsDelivr+17 | Top 5M | 28 patents Integrated photonic quantum hardware: emitters, resonators, detectors, switches, and graph states | — |
| 5 | Oryx Vision Depth sensing technology for autonomous vehicles | $67M | 110 mo ago | 45 | — | — | — | 17 patents Integrated optical depth-sensing and laser control systems with RF power‑harvesting receivers | — |
| 6 | Opsys Developer of optical sensors for the autonomous applications & communication industry | $52M | 45 mo ago | 120 | Rafi Harel Co-Founder & CEO | WixSentrySalesforce+13 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 7 | Prisma Photonics Provider of optical fibre sensors for monitoring infrastructures | $50M | 12 mo ago | 63 | Eran Inbar Founder & CEO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+28 | Top 10M | 24 patents Fiber-optic distributed sensing and quasi-coherent detection with tailored amplification | — |
| 8 | OrSense Provider of non-invasive sensing technology for body vitals measurement | $33M | 185 mo ago | 24 | Yoav Reisman CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+14 | Top 50M | 60 patents Non‑invasive optical blood analysis for point‑of‑care diagnostic monitoring | — |
| 9 | PacketLight Networks WDM and OTN products and solutions provider | $29M | 266 mo ago | 51 | Koby Reshef CEO | JoomlaPHPBootstrap+19 | Top 5M | 5 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 10 | MultiPhy DSPs for high speed optical communicatiions | $24M | 129 mo ago | 36 | Dan Sadot Founder | — | — | 44 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 11 | Ophir Optronics Developer of optronics solutions | $24M | 219 mo ago | 650 | — | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+28 | Top 5M | 59 patents High‑power laser power metrology and thermopile sensor technologies for optical measurement | — |
| 12 | BroadLight Passive Optical Network Technology solutions | $22M | 229 mo ago | 33 | — | — | — | 45 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 13 | CogniFiber Manufacturer of AI-powered in-fibre optical computing hardware | $14M | 27 mo ago | 8 | — | — | — | 46 patents High‑speed photonic networking and multi‑core fiber optical processing for AI hardware. | — |
| 14 | Unispectral Hyper spectral digital imaging sensors | $14M | 105 mo ago | 15 | Xiaohang Ma CEO | — | — | 41 patents MEMS tunable filters and calibration for hyperspectral imaging optics | — |
| 15 | VocalZoom Enhancing voice communication and recognition with a optoelectronic microphone | $12M | 141 mo ago | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Teramount Provider of packaging solutions for photonic integrated circuits. | $8M | 15 mo ago | 30 | Avi Israel Co-Founder & CTO | WordPressMySQLPHP+21 | Top 10M | 67 patents Advanced optical coupling and alignment solutions for co-packaged photonic modules. | — |
| 17 | GalayOr Networks Developer of optical components | $8M | 297 mo ago | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Whole Optics Optical switch technology | $5M | 257 mo ago | — | Eli BenUliel Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | optiQGain Provider of quantum optics analyzers for molecular level diagnostics | $2M | 59 mo ago | 6 | Nitzan Eliyahu Founder & CTO | — | — | 15 patents Real-time high-resolution stimulated Raman spectroscopy for gas analysis in hollow-core fibers | — |
Top 12 Photonics companies in Israel
#1
Series D · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2017 · 63 employees$50Mraised▾
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.
- Oct 2025Series D$30M
- Sep 2023Series C$20M
- Aug 2022Series B—
- Feb 2022Series B$20M
#2
Acquired · Jerusalem, Jerusalem District · founded 2013 · 30 employees$8Mraised▾
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.
- Jul 2025Series A$50M
- Mar 2021Series A$8M
- Jan 2020Grant (prize money)$440.6K
#3
Series A · Rehovot, Central District · founded 2021 · 30 employees$77Mraised▾
Developer of quantum computers with qubits. It provides users with quantum computers with large-scale error-corrected systems using qubits. Its features include photonic quantum computers and practical values.
- Sep 2024Series A$50M
- Apr 2023Seed$12M
- Jul 2022Seed$15M
#4
Acquired · Modi in Maccabim Re ut, Center District · founded 2017 · 50 employees$82Mraised▾
Provider of silicon-based photonic ICs. It manufactures the optical transceivers and optical cables for multiple applications including cloud, data centres, HPC, and enterprise networks. The product line of the company includes multiple kinds of optical transceivers that operate at a certain power supply and are used for data transmission over multimode fibre optic cable up to a certain distance.
- Feb 2024Series B$24M
- Oct 2021Series B$33M
- Sep 2019Series B$25M
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)$526.5K
#5
Series A · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2016 · 8 employees$14Mraised▾
Manufacturer of AI-powered in-fibre optical computing hardware. The company designs and develops in-fibre systems using multicore and multimode fibres with specific structures and encapsulating systems. These fibre systems emulate optical deep learning networks. Its device runs at 10xTbps with substantially low power consumption.
- Jul 2024Series A$5M
- Feb 2022Series A$6M
#6
Series C · Holon, Tel Aviv District · founded 2016 · 120 employees$51.5Mraised▾
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.
- Jan 2023Series C$51.5M
- Dec 2017Grant (prize money)$660.2K
- Jan 2017Grant (prize money)$589.1K
#7
Public · Rosh Haayin, Center District · founded 2016 · 468 employees$252Mraised▾
Developer of LiDAR sensors and perception software for autonomous vehicles. The company provides long-range and short- to mid-range LiDAR products. It offers perception software and smart applications for security, mobility, aerial robotics, and traffic intelligence. The company's products are designed for integration into autonomous driving systems.
- Jun 2019Series C$38M
- Mar 2019Series C$132M
- Oct 2017Series B$8M
- Sep 2017Series B$65M
#8
Acquired · Yokneam Illit, Northern District · founded 2001 · 65 employees$97.4Mraised▾
Provider of application-specific photonic ICs for applications in data centres. It designs and manufactures optical sub-systems and components for the datacom and telecom markets. These sub-systems and components are based on application-specific photonic integrated circuits (ASPICs) that leverage the company's unique and robust PLC technology.
#9
Deadpooled · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 2010 · 45 employees$67.3Mraised▾
Oryx Vision is a company developing 360° vision systems for autonomous vehicles based on depth-sensing technology. It uses nano-sized electro-optic antennas that can receive light’s tiny and ultra-fast waves to sense objects at distances of up to 150m. It claims that its sensors can detect & identify objects that are 3-4 times and use 50x less energy than other LiDARs in operation on the road.
- Aug 2017Series B$50M
- Oct 2016Series A$17M
- Angel$300K
#10
Series B · Petah Tikva, Central District · founded 1996 · 24 employees$33.2Mraised▾
Provider of non-invasive sensing technology for body vitals measurement. The company develops and commercializes patient monitoring solutions for non-invasive continuous measurements of haemoglobin, oxygen saturation, glucose, and other blood parameters. Utilizing its proprietary Occlusion Spectroscopy technology, it also enables the monitoring of the oxygen saturation of Hb (SpO2), low signal oximetry, SpO2, pulse rate, plethysmogram, and haemoglobin. The system is designed for use in hospitals in operating and recovery rooms and intensive care units as well as in outpatient sites and emergency services.
#11
Series B · Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv · founded 2000 · 51 employees$29Mraised▾
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.
- Aug 2004Series B—
- Nov 2000Series A$18M
- Jul 2000Seed$11M
#12
Deadpooled · Ness Ziona, Center District · founded 2007 · 36 employees$24.2Mraised▾
Manufacturer of digital-signal-processing-based integrated circuits designed to serve high-speed networks. The company's semiconductor (CMOS) chips are used for direct detection and coherent transmission solutions and it also specializes in communications theory, optical communications and algorithms development, as well as analog, digital and mixed-signal CMOS VLSI design, enabling companies to pass large amounts of data through optical networks fast and efficiently setting new benchmarks for cost and performance.
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How research on Photonics & Optoelectronics is moving in Israel
A read on the academic research around Photonics & Optoelectronics — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 215 Israel-affiliated papers.
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology45
- Tel Aviv University36
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem31
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev26
- Bar-Ilan University18
- Perovskite (structure)1→6
- Quantum1→6
- Heterojunction2→5
- Quantum dot2→5
- Coupling (piping)1→4
- Laser1→4
- Perovskite (structure)4
- Quantum dot2
- Nanotechnology2
- Absorption (acoustics)2
- Emphasis (telecommunications)1
Where photonics is researched across Israel
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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