Two people in 2019, at the time of launch. You already climb to eight, with two other positions open.
PhotonPath, a start-up incubated in Polihub, is breaking through the stages of growth and is preparing to land on the market in 2021 with its integrated photonic circuits, amplification systems capable of reducing the size and costs of fiber optic networks. «A couple of customers are already testing our applications – explains co-founder Douglas Aguiar – and we aim to finalize these first demos in the coming months. The target, in three years, is to build 3 thousand amplifiers a year to reach five million in revenues ».
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Expansion that has actually already begun, thanks to a double round of financing (pre-seed and seed) successfully concluded with the Poli360 fund, linked to the Politecnico di Milano, resources that allow the start-up to enlarge its offices and start building your own photonics laboratory in the Bovisa hi-tech center.
«The telecommunications applications market – he explains – is worth 700 million dollars a year worldwide but this is only a first step. We plan to enter other markets as well, taking advantage of the patents we already have and others that we are developing ».