Key facts
- Folio Photonics’s last known valuation is $16.1M (May 2019).
- It has raised $22.1M across 7 recorded rounds; the latest was Early Stage VC ($6.0M) in Mar 2026.
- Notable investors include US National Science Foundation, United States Department of War, JobsOhio Ventures, Material Impact (Boston), Ohio Department of Development — 12 tracked in total.
- Folio Photonics has filed 9 Form Ds with the SEC since 2017, most recently Apr 2026 ($6.0M sold to 14 investors).
- Status: Privately Held (backing).
- ·Post-money valuations for all 7 rounds
- ·The complete investor list — 12 names
- ·Watchlist + deal alerts for Folio Photonics
Funding rounds
7 roundsAbout Folio Photonics
Developer of optical data storage technologies designed for enterprise archiving. The company's technologies are produced by polymer co-extrusion using magnetic storage technologies such as hard drive disks to read and write hardware data, enabling users to save energy and money by moving sleeping data off hard disk drives to optical discs.
- Sector
- Information Technology
- HQ
- Solon, OH, United States
- Founded
- 2012
- Employees
- 17
- Website
- foliophotonics.com/
- Ownership
- Privately Held (backing)
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Recorded secondary trades
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Institutional fund marks
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