CTO / Chief Photonics Officer (Stealth Photonic Bio-sensing Venture)

What we do

We are an early-stage deep-tech photonic bio-sensing company combining silicon photonics, micro-fluidics, and applied AI to bring high-end optical instrumentation out of the central lab and onto a low-cost disposable chip plus a compact reader. The first product is a point-of-care diagnostic targeting a multi-billion-dollar market currently served by hand-aligned, six-figure bench-top instruments.

The mission

£500K of benchtop optical instrument has to become a £5 disposable chip. The optics, the photonics, the detection, the entire signal path that today sits inside hand-aligned six-figure machines, has to live on a wafer that ships to a clinic and gets thrown away. Silicon photonics has finally reached the cost-volume curve where this is feasible, and AI design tools are finally good enough to do the multi-physics co-optimisation without an army of PhDs. The window is open. That collapse is the central technical bet of the company,...