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Caliopa raises 1.3 million Euros

2012-04-09T07:40:02+00:00

Zwijnaarde (Belgium) – April 9, 2012 – Silicon Photonics company Caliopa announced today it has raised 1.3 million Euros from its current investors to finalize the development of its Silicon Photonics platform and the first product derived from it. The investors in this capital round are Baekeland, Fidimec, the Flemish investment company PMV and a private investor.

IWT supports innovation project Caliopa

2010-11-11T07:23:08+00:00

Zwijnaarde (Belgium) – November 11, 2010 – The “agentschap voor Innovatie door Wetenschap en Techniek (IWT)” has decided to support Caliopa’s innovation project “Silicon Photonics for Optical transceivers” (SPOT) for the amount of 1.4 million Euro. In cooperation with imec, Caliopa will develop a Silicon Photonics platform for advanced optical transceivers for data and telecommunications applications.

Caliopa in the news on Belgian Business Channel Kanaal-Z

2010-10-27T18:27:47+00:00

Our CEO Martin De Prycker was interviewed by Belgian Business Channel Kanaal-Z.

UGent and imec launch silicon photonics spin-off Caliopa

2010-09-24T23:26:08+00:00

Ghent (Belgium) - September 24, 2010 – Ghent University (UGent) and imec today announced the creation of Caliopa, a spin-off from their world leading Photonics Research Group. An initial 2 million Euro in funding was raised from Baekeland, Fidimec, PMV-Vinnof, a private investor and the founders. Caliopa will develop and market advanced silicon photonics based optical transceivers for the data and telecommunications markets.