Funding newsPublished October 15, 2026

EMode Raises $1.0M Pre-Seed Round

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EMode has raised $1.0M in pre-seed funding from Ground State Ventures. The company makes integrated quantum photonics simulation software aimed at photonics engineers, giving them tools to speed up the design process and cut down on time and resources spent on it.

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Announcing our latest investment: we’ve led a $1 million pre-seed round into EMode Photonix 🔥 Co-founded by Eric Stanton and Maiya A. S., and based in Boulder, Colorado, EMode is focused on one of the hottest areas of quantum computing, integrated photonics.

The company has developed a unique simulation stack, based on proprietary computational techniques that speeds up the simulation of non-linear photonic circuits by 1,000x, and we’re really excited about them here at Ground State Ventures. EMode Photonix’s advanced photonics simulation software is specifically designed to model and optimize complex light transformations. The software incorporates

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