Opdo Raises $2.3 Million to Automate Optical Engineering With AI

Opdo, a startup based in Berlin and Los Angeles, has raised a $2.3 million pre-seed round led by Angular Ventures, with Inflection and Tiny.vc taking part, Tech.eu reports.

Opdo combines AI agents with its own engineers to design optical systems inside established tools such as Zemax and CODE V. Data from manufactured and tested parts feeds back into its models, so each design improves the next, and the company says this has cut development and manufacturing cycles from months to weeks. Its customer projects include laser and imaging systems.

Optics is a bottleneck for quantum computing, aerospace, AR and VR, defence and sensing because specialist engineers are scarce. Opdo will use the money to add engineers, build out its AI tools and take on more customer projects.