UbiQD - Series B
$20M Raised
Ever seen a tiny dot spark a revolution? Meet UbiQD, Inc., where quantum dots go from lab rats to industry disruptors. These aren’t your average particles. They’re the kind of tech that could make the sun jealous, bending light to feed plants, juice up solar panels, and lock down counterfeits tighter than a Fort Knox vault. Founded by Dr. Hunter McDaniel in 2014, this Los Alamos-based powerhouse isn’t just playing with nanotech, they’re scaling it to rewrite how industries see the light. Literally.
Today, they just closed a fat $20 million Series B, led by Phoenix Venture Partners, with heavy hitters like Builders VC, Azura Group, and Scout Ventures piling in. That’s more than cash, it’s a bet on a future where sunlight isn’t just free, it’s optimized. And you better believe McDaniel and his crew, including CPO Matthew Bergren and CCO Michael Burrows, are ready to stretch every photon.
Let’s talk UbiGro®. Not some sci-fi gimmick, but a film that lets greenhouses tune light like a DJ mixing for maximum yield. Think strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes, 9% to 28% more of ‘em, no extra land needed. And now they’ve dropped UbiGro Cover, taking it full-roof, full-spectrum, fully game-changing. It’s light manipulation without the dark side, no toxic cadmium here, just clean, efficient, copper-based brilliance.
Their tech doesn’t stop at the garden gate. They’re running deep with First Solar to supercharge solar panels and shaking hands with SICPA to lock down global supply chains with quantum-secured anti-counterfeit inks. Oh, and they just bagged BlueDot Photonics to dive into perovskite solar, because why settle for one quantum leap when you can take two?
This $20M isn’t just fuel, it’s a launchpad. Scaling up manufacturing, pushing R&D, and making sure Los Alamos isn’t just known for splitting atoms, but for harnessing light. It’s about building the world’s slickest QD supply chain and making sure every photon counts in agriculture, energy, and security. And with roots in Nobel Prize-winning science and partnerships that read like a who’s-who of tech, UbiQD isn’t just another nanotech startup, they’re setting the spectrum for how light can change the game.
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