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Optoelectronix draws funding to move
LEDs out of
the labs
Chris Morrison | March 25th, 2008 | Add Comment
Although many have heard of LEDs, and are ready to buy the more efficient, environmentally friendly lights,
commercializing the technology has proved a tougher road.
Optoelectronix, a Silicon Valley company, is one of the first small startups I’ve seen show up that’s ready to start
manufacturing and selling LEDs, rather than just researching them. Investments into LED by venture capital
firms so far have
been toward developing specific LED technologies, rather than bringing LEDs to stores.
The San Jose, Calif., company has just raised $6 million in a first full round of capital from private unnamed
investors.
Commercializing LEDs is challenging. Rather than a simple bulb with a hot wire, LEDs are actually made up of
several parts, including a thermal management system used to vent the heat, a lens to diffract the light, electronics
and the semiconductor that actually produces the light. The CEO of Optoelectronix, Chuck Berghoff, told me these
complexities often mean a “complete disconnect” between what lighting fixture makers know how to do —
traditional light bulbs — and “what the hell to do with a pile of semiconductor chips.”
The Optoelectronix team, made up of former employees of Siemens, got its start custom-building LEDs for
specialized applications. However, with costs going down and quality going up for various components, as well as
a growing market demand, the company is ready to start mass-producing lights.
Clean technologies propel venture capital funding
By Ángel González
Seattle Times business reporter
Shrugging off credit-related economic woes,
venture capitalists bet heavily on new companies
in the third quarter, driven by opportunities in
clean technologies, software and biotechnology.
But Washington companies didn't attract as much
cash as in the recent past, as new funding for
local biotech plummeted. An Ernst & Young/
VentureOne report ranked the state in eighth
place by dollar amount received, down from third
in the second quarter.
The VentureOne report said the venture-capital
amount invested this quarter, at $8.07 billion, is
the highest since the first quarter of 2001, during
the tech bubble.
The competing PricewaterhouseCoopers/National
Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report,
based on Thomson Financial data, came up with
a different number: $7.1 billion, slightly down from the second quarter, but still robust.
The "steady pace" of investment may result in "the highest level since the fourth quarter of 2001," said
Matthew Toole, private-equity-research director for Thomson Financial, during a conference call with
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintSt...d=2002119995&slug=venturecapital20&date=20071020
Space Sunshade for Global Warming Emergency
ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2006) — The possibility
that global warming will trigger abrupt
climate change is something people might
not want to think about.
But University of Arizona astronomer Roger
Angel thinks about it.
Angel, a University of Arizona Regents'
Professor and one of the world's foremost
minds in modern optics, directs the Steward
Observatory Mirror Laboratory and the
Center for Astronomical Adaptive Optics.
He has won top honors for his many
extraordinary conceptual ideas that have
become practical engineering solutions for
astronomy.
For the past year, Angel has been looking at
ways to cool the Earth in an emergency.
He's been studying the practicality of deploying a
space sunshade in a global warming crisis,
a crisis where it becomes clear that Earth is
unmistakably headed for disastrous climate
change within a decade or two. . . .
ScienceDaily 5 November 2006. 16 March 2008
<http://www.sciencedaily.com
/releases/2006/11/061104090409.htm>.
PSiViSiON Surveillance
Systems
State-of-the-Art Broad Area
Persistent Surveillance
Eiji Yafuso, President & CEO, PSI Origins (Organized, 2006)
B.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Ph.D., Optical Sciences, University of Arizona [Dissertation: Digital
Acquisition System for High-Speed 3-D Imaging, 1997]
MBA, Finance, Wharton School, U of Penn
“People really matter. If you can’t be satisfied
working with me, then I won’t succeed.”
Key Business Lessons:
“Be astute to the difference between good mentors
and the mostly self-righteous. The former represent
perpetual opportunity and the latter, a timeintensive sink-hole.”
Eiji Yafuso
“In many ways the technical solution is easy. Optical
technologists bring expertise to bear that most won't
begin to comprehend. ”
Advice to New Optics Entrepreneurs:
“For the cerebral types it's easy to be insensitive to the fact that it's the people you
engage who count. Focus on your team and your customer. Although
counterintuitive you will find yourself needing to "sell" your idea, and that requires
deliberately refined people skills. You will not create your golden chalice in a void
without people. You need good communication and or good communicators
around you.”
Yash Sabharwal
B.S., Optics, University of Rochester
Ph.D., Optical Science, University of Arizona
[Dissertation: Remote-access slit-scanning confocal
microscope for in-vivo tumor diagnosis, 1998]
Optical Insights -- Scientific and industrial users of
multispectral and polarization imaging
Founded – 1997 [2 partners (see pic., L.)]
Exit – 2005, Sold to Photometrics, a division of
Roper Scientific
“Entrepreneurship is not taught – there is a
huge commitment. And if you don’t want
success to happen bad enough, its' probably
not, unless you're very, very lucky.”
Yash Sabharwal
Approach to business:
“Getting into business has always been one of my
dreams. In our first enterprise, we ( he and his 2
partners) took on dissertation topics that we
believed would have market potential. We also
went into business together, buying a house we
lived in and a guest house we rented out.”
A Key Business Lesson:
“Our friends all thought it was just a spectral imaging system, just a beam splitter but the
biology people saw it as a way to simultaneously view images on two different wave
length bands, saving them a lot of time. One of the key things we learned was nott to get
too bogged down in how cool the technology is, but to focus on the market. We let our
customers tell us what they wanted.”
Advice to new optics entrepreneurs.
“You have to do whatever it takes. We maxed out a lot of credit cards in the beginning,
balance transferring from one card to another. And then we found a web-site for an
unsecured loan. In the end, we self-financed and that made a huge difference in our
success and commitment.”
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A SCIENCE EDITOR OR TECH REPORTER TO
LUNCH.
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PROPERTY
Joseph E. Gortych,
Esq.
jgortych@magiqtech
.com
OPTICUS IP LAW PLLC
http://www.opticusip.com
#2
Joseph E. Gortych, Opticus IP
president ([email protected]), has
worked as an optical engineer and
possesses over a dozen years of
experience in the intellectual
property field. After receiving a B.S.
in physics from Rutgers University
and an M.S. in optics from the
University of Rochester's Institute of
Optics, Gortych received his J.D.
from Vermont Law School. A
member of the Vermont Bar and a
registered Patent Attorney, Gortych
is also a member of the Optical
Society of America (OSA), the
International Society for Optical
Engineering (SPIE), the American
Bar Association (ABA), the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE), and the Licensing
Executives Society (LES). In addition,
he serves as OSA's representative to
the National Inventor's Hall of
Fame.
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 Science Foundation
of Ireland
[http://www.sfi.ie]
 Science Foundation
of Arizona
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