Investment in the spin-out comes via Fidimec and fund Sofi I.
Luceda Photonics, a spin-out of Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Imec has secured funding of €340,000 ($436,250) by Imec’s investment arm Fidimec and Flemish spin-out investment fund Sofi I.
The company plans on using the investment to fully commercialise its software and push ahead research and development for further product features.
Luceda, which was spun out in June 2014, markets Ipkiss, a design framework for photonic integrated circuits. The technology lets customers design components, simulate circuits and layouts, and offers a component library based on the data of more than 300 validated designs.
The Ipkiss framework was originally developed by Ghent University’s Photonics Research Group and imec’s associated lab at the university, while the Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s B-Phot team developed the B-Calm software, which has been integrated into Ipkiss.
Imec is a non-profit solar cell, microelectronics and nanoelectronics research centre in Leuven, Belgium. It was launched in 1982 by the Flemish government to strengthen the microelectronics industry, and has since grown to some 2,000 staff and offices in Taiwan, Japan, USA, China, Netherlands and India.
