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Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive
TechCrunch - July 22, 2025
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Lumotive Raises $45M For Chip Scale Light Management Chip
Forbes - March 5, 2025
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Lumotive Bucks AI Trend by Raising $45 Million for Optical Chips
The Wall Street Journal - February 19, 2025
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Lumotive Unveils MD41 Development Kit: Elevating 3D Sensing with Enhanced Flexibility and Efficiency
Yahoo! Finance - November 20, 2024
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2024 Innovators Awards: Meet the honorees
Laser Focus World - August 4, 2024
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May 6, 2026    Electronic Design
Why Optical Circuit Switching is Becoming Essential for AI Data Centers

May 5, 2026    Laser Focus World
Programmable optics turn sensors into perception platforms for LiDAR

Apr 22, 2026    Open Compute Project
Optical Circuit Switching for AI and Hyperscale Datacenters: Benefits, Technologies, Current and Future Deployments

Apr 22, 2026    AiThority
Rethinking Sensors for Physical AI: Why Machines Need to See the World Differently

Apr 13, 2026     embedded.com
Lumotive Enables 180° Solid-State LiDAR at 30 FPS

Mar 31, 2026     Forbes
Moving Laser Beams in Data Centers – At The Speed Of Light

Mar 26, 2026     PIC Magazine
Lumotive on its world-first 2D photonic beamforming chip

Mar 20, 2026     Electronic Product Design & Test
Programmable 2D Photonic Beamforming Device

Mar 20, 2026     Pulse 2.0
Semiconductor Company Unveils First 2D Photonic Beamforming Chip For AI And Optical Systems

Mar 19, 2026     IEEE Spectrum
Startups Bring Optical Metamaterials to AI Data Centers

Jan 29, 2026     Laser Focus World
The Programmable Optics Revolution

Jan 28, 2026     Vision System Design
Unlocking the Next Generation of LiDAR with Programmable Optics

Dec 9, 2025     The Robot Report
Programmable optics pioneer Lumotive opens new centers in Oman and Taiwan

Dec 9, 2025     GeekWire
Lumotive opens offices in Oman and Taiwan to boost commercialization of its optical 3D sensor chips

Nov 14, 2025     Electronic Product Design & Test
Top Start-up of 2025 – Lumotive

Oct 20, 2025     Invest Vancouver
Company Case Study: Lumotive

Sept 2, 2025     ElectroOptics
“We can’t avoid using light, so we have to master it,” says Lumotive CEO on chip-based light control system

Aug 22, 2025     Forbes
Lumotive Adds Amazon And ITHCA Group To Series B Raise

July 25, 2025     Puget Sound Business Journal
Gates-backed startup secures additional $14 million from Amazon, Oman fund

July 22, 2025     Financial Times
Amazon and ITHCA Invest in Lumotive

July 22, 2025     TechCrunch
Amazon backs programmable optics startup Lumotive

May 22, 2025     Engineering.com
NAMUGA debuts Stella-2 solid-state lidar powered by Lumotive

May 15, 2025     Morning Star
Lumotive Powers E-Photonics’ Launch of Software-Defined LiDAR Solutions for ITS Applications at ITS Spain

May 6, 2025     Mustcat Daily
ITHCA invests in US chip firm to boost Oman’s tech ambitions

Feb 20, 2025     Optics.org
Lumotive eyes new frontiers after $45M series B investment

Feb 20, 2025     Photonics Spectra
Lumotive raises $45 Million

Feb 20, 2025     Pulse 2.0
Lumotive: $45 Million (Series B) Raised For Programmable Optical Semiconductor Products

Feb 20, 2025     EE News Europe
Lumotive raises $45m for AI, international push

Feb 19, 2025     Puget Sound Business Journal
Redmond chip startup lands $45 million to expand growth in new markets

Feb 19, 2025     GeekWire
Bill Gates-backed semiconductor startup Lumotive raises $45M

Feb 19, 2025     The Wall Street Journal
Lumotive Bucks AI Trend by Raising $45 Million for Optical Chips

Nov 20, 2024     Yahoo! Finance
Lumotive Unveils MD41 Development Kit: Elevating 3D Sensing with Enhanced Flexibility and Efficiency

Nov 19, 2024     Global Semiconductor Alliance
The 2024 GSA Award Nominees Revealed

Sept 30, 2024     Communicated Components Magazine
Newest Breakthrough in AGV/AMR 3D Sensing: Lumotive LCM Sets New Standard (Chinese)

Sept 19, 2024    Maeil Business Newspaper
Namuga Forms Alliance with Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sensor Company

Sept 18, 2024    Robotics Tomorrow
Lumotive Unveils Groundbreaking Open Development Platform (ODP): Moves to Democratize the Future of 3D Sensing

Sept 17, 2024    Electronics Specifier
Cron AI and Lumotive unveil AI-powered solid-state LiDAR

Sept 13, 2024     EE News Europe
Open Development Platform for 3D Metasurface Sensor

Aug 4, 2024     Laser Focus World
2024 Innovators Awards: Meet the honorees

May 29, 2024     Electronics360
3D lidar sensor with true solid-state beam steering

May 28, 2024     All About Circuits
Solid-State Beam Steering Comes to 3D LiDAR

May 2, 2024     Electronics 360
Production begins on first optical beamforming chip

May 1, 2024     Metro Vancouver
Invest Vancouver Welcomes US High-Tech 3D Sensor Company

Apr 24, 2024     Robotics 24/7
Lumotive, EDOM partner to market optical computer chips in Taiwan

Apr 17, 2024     EE Times Asia
Lumotive Taps EDOM to Accelerate Solid-State Lidar Adoption in Taiwan

Jan 15, 2024     EE Times
Can Metamaterials Revolutionize Optical Computing?

Jan 12, 2024     Photonics Spectra
Photonics Tech Shines at CES 2024

Jan 11, 2024     GoPhotonics
Lumotive’s Digital Beam Steering Takes Center Stage at CES 2024

Jan 5, 2024     GeekWire
CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

Nov 28, 2023     Fast Company
Lumotive named as one of Fast Company’s Next Big Things In Tech 2023

Nov 16, 2023     Consumer Technology Association
Lumotive LM10 Chip is a CES Innovation Awards 2024 Honoree

June 1, 2023     Robotics 24/7
Lumotive and Hokuyo Partner to Build 3D Lidar Sensing Into Industrial Automation

Apr 12, 2023     Wall Street Journal
Lighter, Cheaper, Faster—MetaVC Looks for Metamaterials Startups

Apr 13, 2023     EE News, Europe
$62m fund for metamaterial startups

Jan 07, 2023     Imaging and Machine Vision Europe
New lidar solutions presented at CES 2023

Jan 04, 2023    Puget Sound Business Journal
Lidar company Lumotive raises $13M in round led by Samsung

Jan 03, 2023    Geekwire
CES 2023: A list of Washington state companies showing off
their latest tech gadgets and services

Aug 30, 2022    ADAS & Autonomous Vehicle International
Lumotive Secures Funding for LCM Beam Steering Chips

Jun 18, 2022    EE Times Weekend Edition
Sam Heidari: ‘Focus on the Journey, Not Just the Destination’

Jun 01, 2022    Unscrewed Systems Technology Magazine
 
Feb 15, 2022    Driving Vision News
 
Jan 31, 2022    Forbes
 

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Lumotive Introduces Open Lidar API to Accelerate Market Adoption of Software-Defined, Solid-State Lidar 2.0 Solutions

Lumotive Introduces Open Lidar API to Accelerate Market Adoption of Software-Defined, Solid-State Lidar 2.0 Solutions

LAS VEGAS (CES) – January 5, 2022 –, Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems and the award-winning Meta-Lidar™ Platform, today introduced the Open Lidar API (application programming interface) to lead the industry towards scalable, ubiquitous, and lower cost 3D sensing based on Lidar 2.0 technology. Considered by industry experts and observers to be the […]
Consumer Technology Association Recognizes Lumotive with Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards

Consumer Technology Association Recognizes Lumotive with Two CES 2022 Innovation Awards

SEATTLE, WA – November 15, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, today announced that it has been named a CES® 2022 Innovation Awards Honoree in both the “Robotics” and “Vehicle Intelligence & Transportation” award categories for its innovative Meta-Lidar™ Platform. This year’s CES Innovation Awards program received a […]
Lumotive Names Dr. Sam Heidari as CEO to Lead Lidar Innovator’s Next Stage of Growth

Lumotive Names Dr. Sam Heidari as CEO to Lead Lidar Innovator’s Next Stage of Growth

SEATTLE, WA – October 20, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, today announced the appointment of Dr. Sam Heidari to the position of CEO. Heidari brings extensive executive operational and director-level experience in the semiconductor industry to the highly regarded start-up. Lumotive has pioneered a next-generation […]
Lumotive Wins “Best of Sensors 2021 – Startup of the Year” Award

Lumotive Wins “Best of Sensors 2021 – Startup of the Year” Award

SEATTLE, WA – September 29, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, has been recognized by media and information services providers Questex and Fierce Electronics with the “Best of Sensors 2021 - Startup of the Year” award presented at the recent Sensors Converge event held in San Jose, California. For more than two decades, the Best […]

Lumotive Reveals Meta-Lidar™ Platform at Sensors Converge Event

SAN JOSE, CA (SENSORS CONVERGE) – September 22, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems for automotive, industrial and consumer applications, is demonstrating its recently unveiled Meta-Lidar™ Platform at Booth 536 at the Sensors Converge conference and expo at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center from September 21-23, 2021. Lumotive is a finalist for […]

Lumotive Unveils Meta-Lidar™ Platform — Industry’s Smallest, Solid-State, All Silicon, Scalable 3D Sensing Solution

MUNICH (IAA MOBILITY) – September 6, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of solid-state lidar systems, today introduced the Meta-Lidar™ Platform — the industry’s smallest and most cost-effective 3D sensing solution comprising a Lumotive tiny lidar device with patented beam steering technology, software-defined scan modes, and a reference system design. Powered by Lumotive’s highly scalable Light Control Metasurface™ silicon […]

Lumotive Named One of JMP Securities’ “Efficient Fifty” Companies For Second Consecutive Year

Seattle, WA – February 23, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems for smartphones, industrial automation, robotics and automotive applications, today announced its inclusion for the second consecutive year in JMP Securities’ Efficient Fifty list of “the most interesting private companies in industrial and energy technology.” “Our team analyzed several hundred companies in the process of […]

Lumotive’s “Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program” Accelerates Adoption of Tiny LiDAR in Smartphones and Other Devices

Seattle, WA – February 8, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems, today began accepting applications for its “Mini-LiDAR Early Access Program” (EAP) from qualified partners deploying extremely small form-factor LiDAR in smartphones, augmented reality (AR) products, industrial automation systems and near-range automotive solutions, such as for blind-spot detection and in-cabin driver monitoring systems. […]

Lumotive Earns Spot on Built In’s “Best Small Companies to Work For in Seattle” List for 2021

Seattle, WA // January 13, 2021 — Built In today announced that the company honored Lumotive with inclusion in the 2021 Best Places To Work Awards. Specifically, Lumotive earned a place on the “Best Small Companies to Work For in Seattle” list. The annual awards include companies of all sizes, from startups to the enterprise, nationally and in the […]

Lumotive, Yole Développement and LiDAR News to Host “LiDAR: One Size Does Not Fit All” Webinar, January 21, 2021

Seattle, WA – January 7, 2021 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable, solid-state LiDAR systems, and market research company Yole Développement today announced the “LiDAR: One Size Does Not Fit All” webinar to be hosted and moderated by leading industry publication LiDAR News on January 21, 2021 at 11:00 AM, Eastern time. Ideal for developers of smartphones and industrial or automotive products […]

Lumotive Introduces Exclusive Early Access Program to Support Select Partners and Accelerate Adoption of Innovative LiDAR Technology

Seattle, WA – August 4, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable solid-state LiDAR systems, today announced its “Early Access Program” (EAP) designed to assist select customers build unique, market-specific features into their LiDAR-enabled products and bring them to market faster. Open to a small number of qualified partners, the EAP program provides engineering support and early access to […]

Lumotive Unveils Industry-First LiDAR Products Leveraging Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ and CMOS Manufacturing to Address Performance, Cost and Form-Factor Needs Across Multiple Markets

Seattle, WA – May 19, 2020 – Lumotive, a leading developer of scalable solid-state LiDAR systems, today announced the first two in a series of 3D-sensing products that utilize its innovative Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ (LCMs) manufactured in CMOS semiconductor processes to meet performance, cost and size requirements across a range of industries. With samples available in the […]
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