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Digi-Capital: AR/VR Start-ups Raised Over $3.6 Billion in Past 12 Months

by Andrew Fenn

Click for higher resolution AR and VR start-ups raised over $3.6 billion in the 12 months preceeding the end of the first quarter of 2018—a new record, according to Digi-Capital. Magic Leap, Niantic, Imporabable …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 25 - Issue 14

JDI Puts OLED Plans on Hold

by Bob Raikes

JDI has had to re-align its capital raising and investment plans in the light of market developments over the last nine months. Having first planned to raise funds to invest in OLED production, the …

LG Clarifies Ambitious OLED Plans

by Bob Raikes

LG Display has told the Nikkei that it plans to boost its OLED TV panel output to 10 million by 2020 and Lee Sang-hoon, a Senior VP with the company, said that the number …

Samsung Launches Design Innovation Center

by Bob Raikes

Samsung has launched a new Design Innovation Center, based in San Francisco, California. Dr. Federico Casalegno, an associate professor of the practice at the MIT, as well as founder and executive director of the …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 25 - Issue 13

Black Cattle OLED Fab Receives Additional Funding

by Bob Raikes

Black Cattle Foods (BCF) is a Chinese soyabeen producer which is getting into OLED panel manufacture, with help from Visionox. (Visionox Developing a 814 PPI AMOLED for VR). The OLED-A reported that the company …

New York Start-up Lumiode Raises $6 Million

by Andrew Fenn

We missed this at the time, but last month, Lumiode—a New York-based semiconductor technology start-up specialising in high-brightness micro-displays for augmented reality and other display applications—filed paperwork revealing it had raised $5.97 million in …

Tags:Investment| Microdisplays| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 12

Denso Confirms ¥30 Billion Investment in JOLED

by Andrew Fenn

Following months of rumours, Japanese autoparts manufacturer Denso will invest ¥30 billion ($282 million) in automotive display business, JOLED. The company will receive a 15% share in the business in return. Other companies who …

Magic Leap Announces Additional Investments from Saudi Arabia

by Andrew Fenn

Magic Leap has raised an additional $461 million in Series D funding. $400 million of this new investment came from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, with “new investors” contributing the remaining …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Investment| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 10

VueReal Raises $10.5 Million for Micro LED Display Technologies

by Andrew Fenn

VueReal, a developer of technologies for micro-LED displays, has announced the initial closing of its $10.5 million Series A funding round led by the venture arm of a large Asian company and a leading …

Tags:Investment| Large Display Monitor| MicroLED| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 09

M Ventures Invests in ClearInk Displays

by Andrew Fenn

M Ventures (the venture capital arm of Merck KGaA) has announced that it has made an investment in ClearInk’s C Round of financing, which began in mid-2017, with co-investments from strategic investors in China, …

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Investment| Merck| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 25 - Issue 09

M Ventures Invests in ClearInk Displays

by Andrew Fenn

Tags:EPD (Electrophoretic)| Investment| Large Display Monitor| Merck| Vol 25 - Issue 10

Acer Injects More Cash into StarVR HMD Project

by Andrew Fenn

Acer has invested an additional $5 million in StarVR, a head-mounted display joint venture partnership with Starbreeze, raising its stake in the venture from 50% to 66.7%. At the end of 2017, StarVR and …