Photonium
Photonium is a YC Spring 2025 (P25) company. Team of 2.
About Photonium
Summary
Photonium builds software and provides engineering consulting that automates optical system design for hardware teams in quantum computing, automotive, aerospace, life sciences, AR/VR, and semiconductor manufacturing. Its Insight product takes a written spec or existing design file and runs optimization, analysis, and tolerancing inside Zemax, CODE V, or its own ray tracer, replacing the manual iteration that occupies optical engineers. A consulting arm pairs clients with senior optical engineers supported by the same AI tooling.
Business model
A software product plus fee-based consulting engagements
Go-to-market
Hardware and deep-tech teams in B2B industries are the buyers; they enter through a technical demo booking for the software or a direct consulting call, both offered on the website.
From the Y Combinator listing
AI-Powered Optical Consulting & Software
Photonium is building software to automate optical system design. We supercharge optics experts with intelligent tooling to reduce costs and deliver faster. We handle the full design stack — from optimization, verification, sourcing, to prototyping — for AR/VR, quantum, biotech, metrology/chip fab, LiDAR, and more.
Facts
- B2B / B2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
- Adam Mhatre
- Jennifer Song
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