Singaporean optical lenses manufacturer MetaOptics files for a $23 million US IPO
IPO Overview
MetaOptics, a Singapore-based designer and manufacturer of ultra-thin flat optical lenses, filed on Monday with the SEC to raise up to $23 million in an initial public offering.
MetaOptics is currently listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange under the ticker 9MT.
MetaOptics develops and manufactures metalenses: ultra-thin, flat optical lenses that are smaller, lighter, and more power-efficient than traditional curved lenses. It operates across the full value chain, including equipment, foundry production, and end products, and integrates artificial intelligence into its design and image processing to improve resolution, correct optical defects, and enable computational image adjustments. In addition to producing metalenses and prototypes, the company builds demonstration and commercial applications such as camera modules, infrared cameras, pico projectors, and other IoT-based imaging devices to showcase and deploy its technology.
The Singapore-based company was founded in 2021 and booked $1 million in revenue for the 12 months ended December 31, 2025. It plans to list on the Nasdaq under the symbol MOT. MetaOptics filed confidentially on January 21, 2026. Roth Capital and The Benchmark Company are the joint bookrunners on the deal.
About the Company
We are a vertically integrated metalens technology company, combining core competencies across metalens equipment, foundry, products, and metaoptics artificial intelligence. Metalenses are ultra-thin, flat-surface lenses which are smaller, lighter, consume less power, and offer a wider field of view, compared to conventional optical lenses. The unique flatness of metalenses enables the correction of optical defects, delivering reasonable quality color images. Leveraging our AI-based algorithm and processing software, which incorporates several advanced algorithms to enhance the optical design and image processing, our metalens technology can further sharpen the images to achieve higher resolution and enhanced image quality, and allow users to manipulate the individual red, green and blue channels to edit the color images through computational reconstruction. We believe that our innovations have transformative potential in shaping next-generation optical systems. Our operations are centered on the design and manufacture of metalenses and metalens prototypes, and to demonstrate the viability, efficacy, applications and use cases of our metalenses, we have expanded our operations to include the development of metalens camera modules and metalens Internet of Things products, such as infrared metalens cameras, pico projectors, and IoT metalens color cameras.