Overview of funding, partnerships, and tech roadmap
Myrias Optics just closed a seed round of $2.1 million, which puts their total funding at $6.9 million. MassVentures led the round, joined by Hoss Investment, Maroon Venture Partners, Tenon Venture Partners, and new investors like Mill Town Capital, TiE Boston Angels, and Doug Crane.
They’re planning to use this capital to ramp up pilot-line capacity and push commercialization of their wafer-level metaoptics and related diffractive tech.
A big part of what sets Myrias apart is their all-inorganic additive nanoimprint platform. This approach, according to the company, gives them thermally stable, tough optical components that they can make over and over—without the high costs of traditional semiconductor methods.
Myrias also has a key manufacturing partnership with Pixelligent. They use Pixelligent’s high-index materials (the PixClear line) to make metalenses with refractive indices up to 2.3 and transparency over 95%.
Technology strengths: wafer-level metaoptics, AR waveguides, and materials
At SPIE Photonics West, Myrias announced plans to release AR waveguides and metaoptics with refractive indices between 2.3 and 2.6 in Q2 2026. These high-index, imprinted components are supposed to enable ultra-wide field-of-view AR headsets, but still be manufacturable at scale—a hurdle that’s tripped up a lot of AR designs.
By combining wafer-scale metalenses with strong, inorganic materials, Myrias wants to boost coupling efficiency, alignment tolerance, and thermal robustness across different devices.
They say their additive, wafer-level method can offer more scalable production than the old-school photolithography used for high-precision optics.
Working with Pixelligent’s materials helps them push both performance and reliability, especially in tough settings like AI data centers, consumer electronics, industrial gear, and medical devices.
Roadmap and market opportunities
Myrias is targeting a pretty wide mix of markets where compact, high-performance optics really matter:
- AR/AI interfaces that need big view angles and small form factors.
- Data centers and AI infrastructure chasing high-throughput, energy-efficient optical parts.
- Consumer electronics and industrial devices where precise imaging and easy alignment are a must.
- Medical imaging devices that get a boost from smaller, lighter optics that can handle heat swings.
Market context and long-term impact
Industry projections from Pixelligent say the metalens market might jump from about $40 million in 2024 to nearly $2 billion by 2031. This growth seems driven by the hunger for smaller, higher-performing optics in all sorts of industries.
Myrias is staking its claim here with a wafer-level nanoimprinting platform and some tough inorganic materials. They’re betting this combo can help speed up the rollout of advanced optical parts in AR headsets, data centers, and even medical or industrial gear.
Why does this matter? For the optics supply chain, it comes down to practicality—higher refractive indices and better transparency, paired with wafer-scale manufacturing, can chop assembly time, boost yields, and cut overall system costs. In AR, being able to widen view angles without making manufacturing a nightmare could finally deliver truly immersive, ready-for-everyone devices.
For scientists and engineers, Myrias is showing off a mix of mature inorganic materials and scalable nanoimprinting. It’s a strategy that could shake up how high-index metasurfaces get made at scale.
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