In 2010, InfiniLED was spun out of Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork, one of Europe’s leading research centers, to commercialize Micro LEDs, which deliver more usable light using less energy. The Micro LED technology was invented by a team of researchers led by Brian Corbett at Tyndall, supported and funded by Enterprise Ireland. InfiniLED closed roughly €1.6m in first round funding in 2012 led by IL Investment Group from Canada and including Enterprise Ireland.

InfiniLED is now focused on developing ILED Displays (Inorganic LED Display) for wearable and portable devices. Built using arrays of micro LED chips, ILED Displays offers 20 – 40X reduction in power consumption.

ILED Displays are fabricated using millions of micro LEDs, which are designed to control the direction and extraction of light, resulting in minimal wastage of light, high efficiency, and high brightness. The MicroLED manufacturing process etches a parabolic reflector at the semiconductor level, delivering a collimated beam in light, resulting in optimal light control, high efficiency and high brightness. Arrays of Micro LEDs are assembled onto active backplanes (TFT LTPS) using InfiniLED’s proprietary assembly technology.

LEDs are significantly more efficient at producing light than OLEDs. Compared to LCD displays, the self-emissive ILED display architecture is superior because only pixels that are illuminated draw power and there are no polarization losses

InfiniLED was acquired by Oculus in August 2016 to focus on VR/AR uLED development.

Joe O Keeffe, Founder & Interim CEO (Founder & CEO of ScienceWorks Ventures)

Dr. Bill Henry, co-founder & Chief Commercial Officer (previously worked on the development of the technology and the commercial opportunities at Tyndall)