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Avegant Closes $12 Million Round of FundingBELMONT, Calif., Aug. 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Avegant Corp. ("Avegant") announced today that the company closed $12M in Series AA funding from new investors Walden SKT Venture Fund and China Walden Venture Investments III, L.P., as well as previous investors. Ed Tang, CEO of Avegant, said, "The consumer AR industry faces significant challenges developing displays that are high resolution, small form factor, large field-of-view, light field, and low power. The industry is excited about our unique solutions to these technical challenges, which will enable previously impossible AR experiences." Earlier this year, Avegant focused its operations on its next generation display technologies which are targeted for the consumer market. Avegant's current research builds on its industry-first light field technologies and the high resolution, low latency, and high brightness retinal displays first used in Avegant's Video Headset. According to Dr. Om Nalamasu, President of Applied Ventures and Chief Technology Officer of Applied Materials, "Applied is excited to use its materials engineering technologies to enable new inflections like AR/VR, which require advanced displays, high-performance computing and lots of memory. We are working with Avegant to accelerate the development of their light field technology to create compelling AR applications." "Many companies are trying to solve multiple, very difficult technical problems to bring AR experiences to consumers," said Andrew Kau, Manging Director of Walden International. "We chose to invest in Avegant because their solutions elegantly tackle these problems in creative ways that consider human factors without losing sight of manufacturability." About Walden International: About Applied Ventures: About Avegant Media Contact: Annie Rogaski View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/avegant-closes-12-million-round-of-funding-300703079.html SOURCE Avegant Corp. |