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Photonium

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AI-Powered Optical Consulting & Software

Spring 2025Founded 20253 peopleNew York City, NY, USA

About

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 β€”Β from optimization, verification, sourcing, to prototyping β€” for AR/VR, quantum, biotech, metrology/chip fab, LiDAR, and more.

Founders Β· 2

Jennifer Song
Jennifer SongFounder
StanfordHarvard

Co-founder of Photonium. Quantum Computing at Harvard/Stanford/QuEra

Adam Mhatre
Adam MhatreFounder
Stanford

Co-founder of Photonium. Computational Physics at Stanford

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator Β· May 2025
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Design optical systems faster and cheaper.

Photonium automates optical system design using AI, replacing manual iteration with end-to-end optimization from specs to sourcing. It targets companies across quantum tech, biomedical imaging, LiDAR, metrology, and related fields, aiming to reduce design time and costs by integrating with existing CAD and optics tools.

Formerly β€œPhotonIQ”

B2BEngineering, Product and DesignHard TechHardwareMachine LearningB2BManufacturing

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