MetaOptics Files for IPO on SGX Catalist as World’s First Pure-Play Metalens Company

MetaOptics Ltd (the "Company", together with its subsidiary, the "Group") is a cutting-edge semiconductor optics company pioneering glass-based metalenses with AI-enhanced imaging. The Group is a vertically integrated frontrunner in metalens technology headquartered in Singapore, and has lodged its preliminary offer document for its upcoming initial public offering (the "IPO") on the Catalist Board ("Catalist") of the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited ("SGX-ST"). With full-stack capabilities spanning metalens design, nanoscale fabrication, and product integration, the Group is among the earliest globally to bring cutting-edge metalens technology to customers. 

Established in 2021, the Group is the first pure-play metalens company to seek a public listing globally, underscoring its readiness to redefine the next-generation optical supply chain for the leading technology companies across a wide range of industries. Positioned at the intersection of emerging trends in photonics and nanofabrication, the Group designs and manufactures metalenses and related products, including metalens camera modules, metalens manufacturing equipment, and Internet of Things ("IoT") devices such as infrared cameras, pico projectors and colour cameras. These metalenses are designed for integration into smartphones, laptops, contactless three-dimensional ("3D") biometrics modules, projectors, augmented reality / virtual reality ("AR/VR") devices, and industrial systems such as IoT devices, Light detection and ranging ("LiDAR") systems, and heads-up display for aircraft and autonomous vehicles.

Metalenses enable next generation of high-speed optical interconnects. They are a key enabler of co-packaged optics, improving coupling efficiency, reducing system footprint, and enhancing thermal performance, which are all critical for scaling telecommunications infrastructure. By leveraging on its cutting-edge metalens technology, the Company is capable of mass producing colour metalens through semiconductor processes and by integrating several million circular pillars in the Group's metalens, making the Group's technology difficult to replicate.