Pyroistech

pyroistech.com ↗ ·Pamplona ·Pre-seed

Pyroistech is a Spanish optoelectronics company that designs and manufactures fiber-coupled light sources (LED, SLED, multi-LED, halogen) and optical interrogators for universities, labs and research centres, plus custom optical/spectroscopy-based analysis systems for industry. Its second business line applies optical spectroscopy and AI to quality control in the agri-food sector (e.g. sugar content, composition, defect detection), with additional applications in gas detection and medical sensing. Founded in 2018 out of the Optical Fiber Sensors research group at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) and recognised as a UPNA spin-off in 2019, it is a small deep-tech team (~6-7 people) based in Pamplona; it went through the BerriUp accelerator in 2023 and counts Viscofan and several European and Mexican universities among its customers.

Founded

2018

Founders

Total funds raised

€50K+

SectorsOptoelectronics, Photonics, Deeptech & Hardware, Foodtech & Agtech, Scientific instrumentation, Industrial IoT Start-up MapDeeptech & Hardware › Advanced materials, photonics & sensors

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Founders

Carlos Ruiz Zamarreño

Co-founder

Francisco Javier Arregui San Martín

Co-founder

Ignacio Vitoria Pascual

Co-founder & CEO

José Javier Imas González

Co-founder

Global models 4

Spectricity

Belgium · spectricity.com ↗

Designs and sells miniaturised spectral sensors plus analysis software that manufacturers build into devices, the same model of selling optical spectroscopy hardware for material and quality analysis.

$22MComparable

Aryballe

France · aryballe.com ↗

Sells photonics-based sensing hardware with AI software to food, cosmetics and automotive companies for quality control and odour or gas detection, matching Pyroistech's optical-sensor-plus-AI model for industry.

$21MComparable

HyperSpectral

United States · www.hyperspectral.ai ↗

Combines spectroscopy with AI models trained on its own spectral data to detect contaminants for food-safety and health customers, close to Pyroistech's spectroscopy-and-AI agri-food quality control line.

$16MComparable

Unispectral

Israel · www.unispectral.com ↗

Makes compact spectral cameras and modules with analysis software for industrial and agri-food inspection, selling optical sensing hardware much as Pyroistech does.

$13.7MComparable