Dubai-based sensible contact lens startup XPANCEO has closed a $250m Collection A funding spherical at a $1.35 billion valuation, formally incomes unicorn standing because it accelerates efforts to launch the world’s first all-in-one AI-powered prolonged actuality (XR) sensible lens.
The funding spherical was led by Alternative Enterprise (Asia), which additionally spearheaded XPANCEO’s $40m seed spherical.
The brand new capital will assist remaining product growth, world workforce growth, and fast-track the corporate’s go-to-market technique — with a imaginative and prescient to exchange smartphones, smartwatches, and different units with a single seamless wearable: the eye-based sensible lens.
XPANCEO focuses on future after $250m funding increase in Dubai
Roman Axelrod, founder and Managing Companion at XPANCEO, stated: “There’s broad consensus throughout Large Tech that AI-powered wearable XR is the longer term. But, main gamers have solely just lately begun constructing glasses and headsets, so our sensible lens know-how places us at the very least 5 years forward.
“Changing into a unicorn is a strong sign that we’re on the appropriate path. In simply 24 months, we’ve developed 15 working prototypes, every unlocking a brand new layer of risk. Our imaginative and prescient stays the identical: to merge all of your units right into a single, invisible interface – your eyes.”
In contrast to tech giants targeted on cumbersome headsets or sensible glasses, XPANCEO is growing a next-gen wearable that integrates:
- AI-powered XR for immersive experiences
- Actual-time well being monitoring, together with intraocular stress and glucose ranges through tear fluid
- Zoom, evening imaginative and prescient, and color correction capabilities
- Wi-fi charging and information studying in actual time
- 3D imaging by nano-optic lenses
Since 2023, the brand new unicorn has developed 15 working prototypes and earned 24 worldwide awards in optics, deep tech, and wearable innovation. Its workforce has contributed to 110 scientific publications and collaborates with prime world establishments together with College of Manchester, Nationwide College of Singapore, Donostia Worldwide Physics Centre and the College of Dubai.
Dr. Valentyn S. Volkov, Founder and Scientific Companion at XPANCEO, stated: “To construct one thing this bold, we needed to push the boundaries of science itself. Our workforce possesses distinctive experience on the forefront of physics, together with on novel supplies, nanoparticles growth, nano-optics, and extra.
XPANCEO has scaled quickly, doubling its workforce from 50 to 100 and increasing its state-of-the-art laboratories to assist breakthrough analysis in nano-optics, novel supplies, and wearable computing.
With the non-public computing market projected to exceed $750 billion over the subsequent decade, buyers see the agency as uniquely positioned to guide the post-smartphone period.
Philip Ma, Managing Director of Alternative Enterprise (Asia), stated: “We see XPANCEO as a once-in-a-generation undertaking. They’re not simply constructing a product, they’re rewriting the foundations of non-public tech. We backed them early as a result of we noticed the boldness of their imaginative and prescient”.
Business launch timelines haven’t been disclosed, however with unicorn funding secured, the way forward for private computing might quickly be proper earlier than our eyes.
