Value proposition

Shedding light on the future by investing in photonics


VIGO Ventures is an investment group supporting cutting edge R&D photonic teams in technology development and commercialization. We make early stage photonics companies ready for round A investment.
We are a part of a larger ecosystem and offer long term business support for our portfolio companies which, includes possible next round financing.

We light speed your way to round A. With a photonics and hardware focus we offer investment up to €1,5 mln and a possible growth financing up to €15 mln.

Using our workflow framework we identify key strategic initiatives for our companies and structure an executable growth path. We work with the founders before and after the investment as we strongly believe that we can achieve more together.

One of our strategic partners is VIGO Photonics (https://vigophotonics.com/) is a European manufacturer of epitaxial wafers and instruments for photonics and microelectronics, specialized in MWIR and LWIR detectors and modules, produced with the use of internally-developed technology. Our second strategic partner is Warsaw Equity Group (https://warsawequity.com/) a privately held investment company with over 20 years track record of successfully supporting business ventures both by investing their own capital, as well as by providing ongoing operational and strategic support for active investment projects.

Hardware, Sensors, B2B, Photonics, Semiconductor, Deep Tech, Startup, pre-seed, and seed