# PhotonDelta

> PhotonDelta is a VC fund in Eindhoven backing Semiconductor and Manufacturing. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 47%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/photondelta/
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/photondelta
- Website: http://www.photondelta.com/

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

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 5 | 33% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 20% |
| Optical Communication | 3 | 20% |
| Laser | 1 | 7% |
| Mobile | 1 | 7% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 40% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 2 | 13% |
| Grant | 1 | 7% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 7% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| The Netherlands | 10 | 67% |
| India | 1 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 7% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Eelko Brinkhoff | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eelko-brinkhoff-abb3 |
| Ewit Roos | Managing Director | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ewit-roos |
| Laurens Weers | CFO | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/laurens-weers-9850 |
| Peter Krijnsen | Member Investment Committee | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-krijnsen |
| Pieter Klinkert | Fund manager | 6 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pieter-klinkert |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aluvia Photonics | Aluvia specializes in AlOx-based PICs, offering unique features such as a broad operating spectrum window, extremely low propagation losses, and on-chip amplification via rare-earth ion doping. |  | Seed | Oct 16, 2025 |  |
| PHOTON IP | PHOTON IP is a deeptech startup based in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The company develops cutting edge technologies for advanced photonics applications. | $4.9M | Seed | Jan 13, 2025 |  |
| Amazec Photonics | Amazec Photonics focuses on breakthroughs in ultrasensitive temperature sensing utilizing photonics in the medical area. Amazec Photonics envisions this integrated photonics technology unleashing new modes for monitoring, diagnosis, and treatment, which will have a significant impact on healthcare. | $1.6M | Seed | Feb 13, 2024 |  |
| Astrape Networks | Astrape powers the future of datacenters: more bandwidth, less power. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 12, 2023 |  |
| SMART-Photonics | SMART Photonics offers a versatile production and development portfolio. First of all, easy access via Multi-Project Wafer runs enables low-cost and fast prototyping for photonic integrated circuits. Secondly we offer engineering of the process to create the customer product with customer specifications. Production development services are offeredfor volume production of customer products. | $62M | Grant | Jul 12, 2023 |  |
| Delta Diagnostics | Delta Diagnostics is a quality oriented diagnostic center established in 1996. It is promoted and operated by a group of doctors all of whom are specialized in different branches of diagnostics.It was promoted with the intention of providing quality diagnostic support at reasonable cost – as we all know, quality cannot be cheap, however, we haveproved that it can be provided at a reasonable cost to patients. We have continued to provide the same high level of quality for 19 years. | $5.8M | Series A | May 09, 2023 |  |
| New Origin | New Origin operates as a photonic chips foundry to produce silicon nitride chips. | $6.6M | Seed | Apr 12, 2023 |  |
| LioniX International | They provide customized solutions for OEM’s and System Integrators, from design to fully assembled modules, by vertical integration and in scalable production volumes. They maintain their technology leadership secured by a strong IP position. LioniX International core competences are in Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC), customized MEMS, andopto-fluidics. | $3.8M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 09, 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 |  |
| Delta Diagnostics | Delta Diagnostics is a quality oriented diagnostic center established in 1996. It is promoted and operated by a group of doctors all of whom are specialized in different branches of diagnostics.It was promoted with the intention of providing quality diagnostic support at reasonable cost – as we all know, quality cannot be cheap, however, we haveproved that it can be provided at a reasonable cost to patients. We have continued to provide the same high level of quality for 19 years. |  | Seed | Jul 14, 2022 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Innovation Industries](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/innovation-industries) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Invest-NL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/invest-nl) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [OostNL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oostnl) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [BOM](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brabantse-ontwikkelings-maatschappij-bom) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [FORWARD.one](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-one) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Active Capital Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/active-capital-company) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does PhotonDelta invest in?

PhotonDelta invests primarily in Semiconductor, Manufacturing and Optical Communication startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in The Netherlands. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact PhotonDelta?

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### Who are the partners at PhotonDelta?

The team at PhotonDelta includes Eelko Brinkhoff (CEO), Ewit Roos (Managing Director) and Laurens Weers (CFO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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