# Effect Photonics

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/effect-photonics-b-v

- Industry: Electronics
- Headquarters: Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Website: www.effectphotonics.com
- Total disclosed funding: $85M
- Latest round: Series D (Mar 19, 2024)
- Investors on record: 9

## About

Based in North Brabant, Netherlands, and founded in 2010 by Boudewijn Docter and CTO Tim koene, Effect Photonics B.V. operates as a manufacturer of optical communication products based on its dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology for mobile networks. In March 2021, EFFECT Photonics B.V. raised USD 37 million in Series C funding co-led by Smile Invest and Innovation Industries, with participation from BOM Brabant Ventures. Photon Delta participated in the round. In June 2025, Effect Photonics B.V. raised USD 24 million in series D funding from unspecified investors. The company offers digital signal processing, forward error correction technology, and ultra-pure light sources for the network industry. The firm provides digital signal processing is an electronic part of coherent transmission systems, which helps in encoding, decoding, and digital conversion of data and monitors the performance of the coherent transmission systems. EFFECT Photonics offers ultra-pure light sources that allow datacom and telecom industries to expand their network capacity using the combination of tunable lasers and dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) without increasing their existing fiber infrastructure. The company develops and manufactures modules and forms factors that support system deployment. The firm also provides photonic integration technology for integrable tunable laser assemblies (iTLAs). EFFECT Photonics offers an electronic application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that performs much more than just signal processing. The company will use the funding to advance its product roadmap and scale deployment of optical interconnect solutions for edge and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

## Funding rounds

- Series D, Mar 19, 2024, $38M — Innovation Industries, Invest-NL
- Series C, Mar 11, 2021, $37M — b2venture, BOM Brabant Ventures, Innovation Industries, Smile Invest, PhotonDelta
- Series B, Aug 21, 2020, $9.5M — b2venture, BOM Brabant Ventures, Innovation Industries, PhotonDelta, Optiverder, Beek Capital
- Series B, Nov 16, 2018 — Innovation Industries
- Series A, Jun 1, 2016 — b2venture, BOM Brabant Ventures, Optidob
- Series A, Feb 23, 2015 — b2venture, BOM Brabant Ventures, Optidob

## Investors

- b2venture (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/b2venture) — Series A, Series B, Series C
- BOM Brabant Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/bom-brabant-ventures) — Series A, Series B, Series C
- Optidob — Series A
- Innovation Industries (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/innovation-industries) — Series B, Series C, Series D
- PhotonDelta (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/photondelta) — Series B, Series C
- Optiverder (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/optiverder) — Series B
- Beek Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/beek-capital) — Series B
- Smile Invest (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/smile-invest) — Series C
- Invest-NL — Series D