# Ewit Roos

> Ewit Roos is a seed investor at PhotonDelta backing Manufacturing. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Oct 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [PhotonDelta](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/photondelta)
- Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Apr 2025
- Lead investor: 67%
- Last updated: Oct 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewit-roos-90b2516

Ewit Roos is a seed investor at PhotonDelta in Eindhoven focused on Manufacturing and Semiconductor. Ewit Roos (Managing Director) has been with PhotonDelta since January 1st 2016. PhotonDelta has quickly established itself as a pro-active business accelerator for a wide range of companies and researcher involved with integrated photonics. Ewit joined PhotonDelta after several senior management positions in Dutch high-tech companies and headingthe high-tech early stage fund Brightmove BV. His role in PhotonDelta is to link world-class research and innovation with relevant business, working to amplify existing initiatives and fast-track new ones.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 44% |
| Semiconductor | 3 | 33% |
| Hardware | 2 | 22% |
| Automotive | 1 | 11% |
| 3D Technology | 1 | 11% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 44% |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Grant | 1 | 11% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 11% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 67% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Astrape Networks | Astrape powers the future of datacenters: more bandwidth, less power. | $6.2M | Seed | Apr 29, 2025 | https://www.astrape.net/ |
| Lumai | Lumai delivers fully optical computing for a quicker, smarter and more sustainable world. Lumai power the revolution of fully optical computing by working at the nexus of photonics and machine learning. | $10M | Series A | Apr 02, 2025 | https://lumai.co.uk/ |
| MicroAlign | MicroAlign creates fiber array components for photonics, enabling precise micropositioning of multiple optical fibers. | $1.1M | Seed | Jun 05, 2024 | https://www.microalign.nl |
| New Origin | New Origin operates as a photonic chips foundry to produce silicon nitride chips. | $6.6M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| Scantinel Photonics | SCANTINEL PHOTONICS relies on coherent (FMCW) LiDAR to generate three-dimensional images of the environment, thus creating a reliable basis for autonomous navigation. The LiDAR technology from SCANTINEL PHOTONICS combines coherent ranging and spectral scanning on a solid-state platform. This allows an exact detection of the environment of thevehicle combined with high range, reliability, compactness, and low costs. | $10.4M | Series A | Nov 24, 2022 | https://scantinel.com/ |
| PHIX | PHIX is a packaging foundry that supplies the photonics industry with assembly and packaging services. | $20.4M | Grant | Jul 27, 2022 | http://www.phix.com |
| QuiX | QuiX Quantum develops photonic quantum computing hardware, utilizing integrated photonics to process quantum information through light particles. The company's product line includes universal quantum computers, special-purpose quantum systems, and quantum photonic processors. Its technology operates at room temperature and is designed forscalability, leveraging photonic components to manipulate quantum states. QuiX Quantum's 20-mode Quantum Photonic Processor has been recognized with the Prism Award in the Quantum Tech category. The company has supplied quantum systems to various organizations, including the German Aerospace Center (DLR) . QuiX Quantum also offers cloud-based access to its quantum computing resources.​ | $5.6M | Seed | Jul 07, 2022 | https://www.quix.nl/ |
| PhotonFirst | PhotonFirst is the provider of integrated photonics sensing solutions for sophisticated applications. PhotonFirst was founded in 1996 and is located in Alkmaar, Netherlands. | $12.4M | Series A | Dec 02, 2021 | https://www.photonfirst.com |

8 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Constructor Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/constructor-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [IP Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ip-group-plc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Journey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/journey-ventures-9e28) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LIFTT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liftt) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Qubits Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/qubits-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [State Farm Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/state-farm-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About PhotonDelta

VC Fund · Eindhoven, The Netherlands

PhotonDelta is an independent growth accelerator for the integrated photonics industry. PhotonDelta has established a truly collaborative ecosystem of organisations at the heart of Europe that is able to design, develop and manufacture the next generation chip technology.By combining our partners’ expertise in different domains with thedifferent technology platforms, PhotonDelta a unique position to stimulates the creation of new companies, products and applications. PhotonDelta’s team of entrepreneurial experts is actively supporting the ecosystem through funding, coaching and connecting them to the industry.Do you want to be part of the next big thing? Visit www.photondelta.com

5 contacts available at PhotonDelta.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eelko Brinkhoff | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eelko-brinkhoff-abb3 |
| Ewit Roos | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewit-roos |
| Laurens Weers | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurens-weers-9850 |
| Peter Krijnsen | Member Investment Committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-krijnsen |
| Pieter Klinkert | Fund manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pieter-klinkert |

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## FAQ

### What does Ewit Roos invest in?

Ewit Roos invests primarily in Manufacturing, Semiconductor and Hardware startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Ewit Roos last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Ewit Roos closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 9 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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