Morphotonics raises €40 million to take imprint tooling into data centres
The Dutch nanoimprint lithography company said the money will fund a move from augmented-reality waveguides into co-packaged optics for data centre servers.
Morphotonics, a Dutch maker of nanoimprint lithography equipment, has raised €40 million from investors including 3M Ventures, the European Innovation Council Fund and the European Investment Bank, TechCrunch reported on Monday. The report named no lead investor.
Innovation Industries, BOM, Invest-NL and the Dutch family office Ernij Next also took part, according to TechCrunch. The round extends a raise the company began in 2024 and has been paid in installments, the report said, so the €40 million is not new money arriving at once.
Nanoimprint lithography presses a stamp into photosensitive material. Morphotonics has used it to make waveguides, the thin sheets that bend light across the lens of a pair of smart glasses. The company now wants to make co-packaged optics, which move data between servers inside a data centre.
Customers have validated the data centre technology, according to TechCrunch, but no machines have shipped. The company said its next machine will produce more than 6 million waveguides a year and ships in early 2027. That output figure is a company claim.
Morphotonics has about 60 staff, up from roughly 30 in September 2024, and is aiming for 70 to 75. Chief executive Hugo Da Silva said a strong local presence matters to customers, with most display manufacturing concentrated in China, Taiwan, South Korea and the United States.