imec.xpand

Imec.xpand is an independently managed, game-changing way to enable early-stage nano electronics-based innovation powered by imec, the world-leading R&D hub for nanoelectronics and digital technology.

Frank Bulens

Partner

Lien Callens

Associate

Peter Vanbekbergen

Partner

Cyril Vancura

Partner

Tom Vanhoutte

Partner

Veronique Vermeeren

Principal

31 past transactions

Swave Photonics

Seed Round in 2022
Swave Photonics operates as a fabless semiconductor company.

Onera B.V.

Series B in 2021
Onera is a spin-off of imec, the world-leading research center for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Onera’s mission is to advance sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions and services, helping millions of people who struggle with sleep-related ailments, and ultimately improving the health and quality of life for patients around the world. Onera is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley and has R&D offices in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.onerahealth.com

LUMA Vision

Series A in 2021
OneProjects Design and Innovation Ltd. develops healthcare technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. It offers VERAFEYE, a connected platform technology to revolutionize the treatment of AFib and cardiac arrhythmias. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Indigo Diabetes

Series B in 2020
Indigo Diabetes nv (Indigo) is a young high-tech medical device company founded by Danaë Delbeke and her team ended in 2016. Indigo develops the world’s first invisible sensor for people living with diabetes to address their need for accurate glucose monitoring with improved user experience. Indigo exploits groundbreaking photonics technology that revolutionized the Internet during the last decades and now aims at transforming diabetes management.

Fabric8Labs

Series B in 2023
Fabric8Labs, Inc develops and manufactures non-thermal metal 3D printer. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Pharrowtech

Seed Round in 2019
Pharrowtech BV manufactures chip and antenna solutions for wireless applications. The company designs and manufactures wireless sub-systems for 60GHz millimeter wave wireless applications. Its products include chip and antenna systems. Pharrowtech BV caters to fixed-wireless access, wireless virtual reality and artificial reality, and high capacity wireless links customers. The company is based in Mortsel, Belgium.

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Seed Round in 2020
Micledi Microdisplays BV designs and manufactures micro light emitting diode (LED) display chips for augmented reality (AR) glasses. The company offers MicroLED display modules on wafers. It serves the semiconductor industry. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium.

MouSensor

Seed Round in 2018
MouSensor, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops a platform to digitize the sense of smell. It engineers super sniffer mice to build a live nose-on-a-chip to detect, discover, and digitize various smells on the planet ranging from the fragrances in a perfumer's palette to odors associated with diseases, such as Parkinson's disease. MouSensor, Inc. was founded in 2016 and is based in New York, New York.

Pulsify Medical

Seed Round in 2019
Developer of wearable ultrasound patches intended to produce images revealing critical information on a patient's health. The company's product is built by using flexible ultrasound transducer technology and design know-how for transducers, thin-film transistors, and system architecture and is based on cardiac ultrasound imaging, enabling medical practitioners to follow patients' basic health parameters all over the hospital and at home without requiring the intervention of specially trained individuals to obtain and interpret results.

LUMA Vision

Series A in 2023
OneProjects Design and Innovation Ltd. develops healthcare technologies for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. It offers VERAFEYE, a connected platform technology to revolutionize the treatment of AFib and cardiac arrhythmias. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Nubis Communications

Venture Round in 2023
Nubis Communications is a cloud startup company providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in New York City Metropolitan Area.

Onera B.V.

Series B in 2021
Onera is a spin-off of imec, the world-leading research center for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Onera’s mission is to advance sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions and services, helping millions of people who struggle with sleep-related ailments, and ultimately improving the health and quality of life for patients around the world. Onera is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley and has R&D offices in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.onerahealth.com

Celestial AI

Series B in 2023
Inorganic Intelligence is a Neuromorphic Photonic AI Computing solution that serves as deep learning and machine learning applications. The company was founded in 2020 by David Lazovsky, Michelle Tomasko, and Preet Virk and is based in San Jose, California, United States.

Solithor

Seed Round in 2022
Solithor is a company developing solid-state battery technology. It is spearheading the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of solid-state lithium (Li) battery cell technology to offer high-energy storage solutions.

Fabric8Labs

Series A in 2021
Fabric8Labs, Inc develops and manufactures non-thermal metal 3D printer. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Pharrowtech

Series A in 2022
Pharrowtech BV manufactures chip and antenna solutions for wireless applications. The company designs and manufactures wireless sub-systems for 60GHz millimeter wave wireless applications. Its products include chip and antenna systems. Pharrowtech BV caters to fixed-wireless access, wireless virtual reality and artificial reality, and high capacity wireless links customers. The company is based in Mortsel, Belgium.

Fabric8Labs

Seed Round in 2018
Fabric8Labs, Inc develops and manufactures non-thermal metal 3D printer. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in La Jolla, California.

Celestial AI

Series A in 2022
Inorganic Intelligence is a Neuromorphic Photonic AI Computing solution that serves as deep learning and machine learning applications. The company was founded in 2020 by David Lazovsky, Michelle Tomasko, and Preet Virk and is based in San Jose, California, United States.

Axelera AI

Seed Round in 2021
Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI. Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.

Spectricity

Series B in 2021
Spectricity is a fabless semiconductor company creating spectral sensing solutions for high-volume mobile and consumer devices, using low-cost CMOS technologies. Spectricity’s patented, spectral sensing technology enhances existing camera sensors by fusing data with other image and 3D sensors in the devices to provide augmented real-time data, advanced user-environment interfacing, and big data analysis.

Onera B.V.

Series A in 2019
Onera is a spin-off of imec, the world-leading research center for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Onera’s mission is to advance sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions and services, helping millions of people who struggle with sleep-related ailments, and ultimately improving the health and quality of life for patients around the world. Onera is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley and has R&D offices in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.onerahealth.com

Onera B.V.

Venture Round in 2018
Onera is a spin-off of imec, the world-leading research center for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Onera’s mission is to advance sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions and services, helping millions of people who struggle with sleep-related ailments, and ultimately improving the health and quality of life for patients around the world. Onera is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley and has R&D offices in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.onerahealth.com

Onera B.V.

Series C in 2024
Onera is a spin-off of imec, the world-leading research center for nanoelectronics and digital technology. Onera’s mission is to advance sleep medicine by creating breakthrough diagnostic solutions and services, helping millions of people who struggle with sleep-related ailments, and ultimately improving the health and quality of life for patients around the world. Onera is headquartered in California’s Silicon Valley and has R&D offices in the Netherlands. For more information, please visit www.onerahealth.com

MICLEDI Microdisplays

Series A in 2024
Micledi Microdisplays BV designs and manufactures micro light emitting diode (LED) display chips for augmented reality (AR) glasses. The company offers MicroLED display modules on wafers. It serves the semiconductor industry. The company is based in Leuven, Belgium.

Wise Integration

Series B in 2024
Wise Integration is a developer of GaN-integrated solutions to miniaturize power supplies and improve energy efficiency.

Nagi Bioscience

Series A in 2023
Nagi Bioscience SA develops and manufactures an automated testing device that raises, feeds, and analyzes worms independently for the testing of molecules in pharmaceutical, chemical, and cosmetic companies. It offers Caenorhabditis elegans-on-chip, a tool that combines the use of organism for in vivo testing with a technological platform for its automated in vitro handling, culture, and analysis. The company’s product is used in toxicity testing, drug discovery, and anthelmintic testing applications. Nagi Bioscience SA is based in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Optalysys

Series A in 2023
Optalysys Inc., a technology company, develops and commercializes light-speed optical coprocessors for AI systems/deep learning. Its optical co-processors use photons of low power laser light to perform processor intensive convolution functions to classify and recognize images in applications, including autonomous vehicles to recognize and make intelligent judgements on signs or obstacles on the road; in medical image analysis to identify potential causes of a patient’s symptoms; and in weather forecasting to predict the next natural disaster. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Reno, Nevada.

Swave Photonics

Seed Round in 2023
Swave Photonics operates as a fabless semiconductor company.

Axelera AI

Series A in 2022
Axelera AI is developing a game-changing hardware and software platform for AI. Incubated in 2019 by the emerging technologies leader Bitfury and joined by the leading nano-technology group imec in early 2020, Axelera AI launched as a new company in 2021. Headquartered in the AI Innovation Center of the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Axelera AI has R&D offices in Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy. Its team of experts in AI software and hardware hail from top AI firms and Fortune 500 companies.