# Singular Photonics

Startup profile on Capital Atlas: https://capitalatlas.ai/startups/singular-photonics

- Industry: Semiconductors
- Headquarters: Edinburgh, UK
- Website: www.singularphotonics.com
- Total disclosed funding: $2.1M
- Latest round: Seed (Aug 19, 2026)
- Investors on record: 6

## About

Based in the United Kingdom, Singular Photonics Limited was founded in 2024 by Professor Robert Henderson, Dr Aravind Venugopalan Nair Jalajakumari, Dr Neil Finlayson and Shahida Imani as a spin-out from the University of Edinburgh CMOS Sensors and Systems group, and designs SPAD-based image sensors that integrate computation directly beneath the sensor array. As of August 2026, the company is led by its CEO, Shahida Imani. On 19 August 2026, the company secured USD 2.15 million in an oversubscribed Seed funding round led by ACF Investors, with participation from Wren Capital, Cambridge Angels, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential and Old College Capital, to expand engineering capacity and accelerate development of its next generation of SPAD-based image sensors. The company sells two commercially available SPAD image sensor families. Andarta is a 5 mm by 5 mm computational SPAD sensor that carries out extensive on-sensor preprocessing, is reprogrammable for different imaging tasks and supports in-pixel autocorrelation, gated operation and ultra-high-speed imaging; it is applied to correlation spectroscopy, biomedical research and blood-flow monitoring. Sirona is a 512-pixel SPAD line sensor containing two SPAD types per pixel with on-chip time binning and histogramming, aimed at time-resolved multispectral beam-scanned imaging, Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging, time-of-flight measurement and quantum applications. Sirona has been integrated into Renishaw's inVia confocal Raman microscope. Customers are instrumentation companies, scientific and medical research users and industrial machine-vision developers. The company earns revenue from commercial sales of its Andarta and Sirona SPAD image sensors and from sensor supply agreements with instrumentation companies. It confirmed it had commercially available products and was generating revenue in its first year of incorporation. The company plans to use its August 2026 funding to expand engineering capacity, accelerate development of its next generation of SPAD-based image sensors, broaden its product roadmap and shorten time-to-market for new sensors across machine vision, industrial automation, physical AI, scientific discovery and medical imaging.

## Funding rounds

- Seed, Aug 19, 2026, $2.1M — Cambridge Enterprise Ventures, Old College Capital, ACF Investors, Wren Capital, Scottish Enterprise, Quantum Exponential

## Investors

- Cambridge Enterprise Ventures (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/cambridge-enterprise-ventures) — Seed
- Old College Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/old-college-capital) — Seed
- ACF Investors (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/acf-investors) — Seed
- Wren Capital (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/wren-capital) — Seed
- Scottish Enterprise (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/scottish-enterprise) — Seed
- Quantum Exponential (https://capitalatlas.ai/funds/quantum-exponential) — Seed