Porotech secures $20m Series A investment

The funding aims to ensure the company keeps pace with growing demand from its customers and partners in the $140bn display market. A multinational electronics giant is among the Series A round’s participants, which has been led by Ameba Capital and includes previous investor Speedinvest.

Porotech has created PoroGaN, a new class of porous gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material. This is enabling the company’s micro-LED products to deliver monochrome and full-colour displays on a single indium gallium nitride (InGaN) material system, with the brightness, efficiency and resolution required for high-quality image projection against bright backgrounds including outdoors in daylight. The company said its red micro-LED product is ‘already achieving best-in-class performance’.

Micro-LED displays are expected to play a key role in next-generation TVs, wearables and smartphones. GaN-based material technology is widely seen as the only technology that can deliver displays bright and efficient enough to meet requirements of extended reality (XR) displays involving virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and/or mixed reality (MR).