LightCode MILESTONES
FEBRUARY 2023
Intel Ignite Europe patch #4 had a graduation ceremony!
LightCode Photonics team won the honourable award for Most Progress!
JANUARY 2023
TOP 3 in the DeepTech category at the Estonian Startup Awards!
"DeepTech emerged strongly in 2022, with plenty of exceptionally strong nominees (and a tight race for the 1st place). This is a sector of visionaries and academics. We’re proud to see Estonian scientist rolling up their sleeves and actively working on saving the world!"
Read more here.
January 2023
We are thrilled to announce that we have been selected as one of the TOP 6 finalists in the ‘Industry 4.0 & Autonomous Machines’ track within Hello Tomorrow’s Global Challenge!
NOVEMBER 2022
TOP 10 of the Intel Ignite accelerator program.
Intel Ignite helps to turn cutting-edge ideas into industry-disrupting technologies by giving ambitious entrepreneurs the hands-on mentorship, technical support, and business acumen they need to build world-changing companies.
Read more here.
OCTOBER 2022
We were invited to the panel discussion at the ESA Business Incubation Centre Estonia Investor Forum.
See the recap from the panel here.
October 2022
National Winner Diploma of Baltic Innovation Prize 2022 by Baltic Assembly
The Baltic Innovation Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in innovation and new technologies, as well as for the strengthening of cooperation on the Baltic States in innovation and technological development.
OCTOBER 2022
LightCode Photonics was chosen to participate in the CDL-Estonia accelerator.
Creative Destruction Lab is a high-level seed-stage accelerator originating in Canada
October 2022
We were honored to be awarded by the City of Tartu!
Tartu Science Park Company of The Year
Most Outstanding Startup by sTARTUp Day
Read more here.
August 2022
June 2022
LightCode Photonics won the MIT Enterprise Forum Greece finals!
The MITEF Greece Startup Competition is one of the leading acceleration programs in South-Eastern Europe and is a chapter of a global entrepreneurial network inspired by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), one of the world’s top technology universities.
Read the press release here
Apr 2022
LightCode was pitching in MIT Enterprise Forum Greece competition semi-finals.
"Breakthrough in 3D vision for affordable autonomous mobility",
presented by our CEO and Founder Heli Valtna.
The MITEF Greece Startup Competition is one of the leading acceleration programs in South-Eastern Europe and is a chapter of a global entrepreneurial network inspired by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), one of the world’s top technology universities.
FEB 2022
LightCode had a wonderful teamwork day, strengthening, even more, our core values: respect, growth, focus, authenticity & inventiveness.
Values were put to tasty apple pies and you can see a quick video of our event here.
Dec 2021
LightCode technology demo took place on 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 9th.
Plans to launch the MVP and customer pilots were introduced.
Dec 2021
We’ve been named one of Hello Tomorrow’s Deep Tech Pioneers!
Come and meet us at the “𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗧𝗼𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟭” along with 3,500 disruptive startups, investors, corporations and more. Europe’s biggest deep tech event took place on 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝗻𝗱-𝟯𝗿𝗱.
Aug 2021
The LightCode tech team is presenting our
new and smaller Software-Defined 3D Camera prototype at sTARTUp Day and participating in the Finding Your Way in Deep-Tech Entrepreneurship talk.
June 2021
LightCode team participated in Latitude59 Special Edition with
a pitch and a prototype.
Spring 2021
Here's a snapshot of the LightCode in spring 2021.
Be quick and take a look, we’re on the fast track!
May 2021
LightCode Photonics joined EAS Business Incubator and ESA BIC (Business Incubator Centre Estonia).
Feb 2021
The LightCode team made it into finals (top 6) on the ActInSpace hackathon amid 543 teams participating globally.
Jan 2021
A portable LightCode prototype demo in the lab.
The 3D camera provides 128 times resolution enhancement compared to the detector’s native resolution.
DEC 2020
LightCode Photonics raised the pre-seed round of €425K,
led by reputable early-stage funds: United Angels and Superangels
and 10 technology-oriented angel investors.
Oct 2020
LightCode team made into finals in Base Camp Hackathon.
Aug 2020
LightCode Photonics was founded by Heli Valtna (CEO), Sergey Omelkov (CTO),
Andreas Valdmann and Jan Bogdanov.
Aug 2020
LightCode team LightCode team participated
Jan 2020
Sept 2017
The LightCode Software-Defined 3D Camera concept took its inception when the founder team tackled a challenge to develop an innovative imaging technology at the University of Tartu, Institute of Physics.
June 2022
LightCode Photonics won the MIT Enterprise Forum Greece finals!
The MITEF Greece Startup Competition is one of the leading acceleration programs in South-Eastern Europe and is a chapter of a global entrepreneurial network inspired by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), one of the world’s top technology universities.
Read the press release here