👯 Founder(s): Nikolajus Gavrilinas (co-founder and CEO) and Kęstutis Regelskis (co-founder and CSO)

📅 Founding year: 2015

🏭 Industry: Deep tech / photonics

💥 Problem: Femtosecond lasers can deliver extremely precise material processing, but traditional systems have often been complex, expensive, difficult to automate and dependent on highly skilled specialists. This has limited their adoption in mass-production environments.

📣 Solution: Litilit develops and manufactures femtosecond lasers based on a patented architecture designed to make them more reliable, affordable and suitable for automated serial production. Its modular design and higher level of automation are intended to simplify assembly, testing and quality control.

👥 Customers: Industrial manufacturers and companies operating in semiconductors, electronics, displays and battery technologies, as well as medical applications such as ophthalmology. The company's lasers are also used for precision material processing, medical-device manufacturing and other high-tech applications.

🎳 Team size: 11–50 employees

🌱 Stage: Series A / growth stage

💰 Investment amount: €8M

🚀 Funded by: ILTE

👁️‍🗨️ Investor’s perspective: “Investments in scientific research and experimental development are necessary for Lithuanian companies to be able to create high value-added products and remain competitive in global markets,” said Giedrė Gečiauskienė, a member of the ILTE board.

💡 It will be spent on… Research and development activities related to Litilit's femtosecond laser technology.

💬 In their own words: “Until now, femtosecond lasers have been complex, expensive, and difficult to integrate. We aim to change this – to make them a reliable and affordable tool suitable for mass production,” said Nikolajus Gavrilinas, CEO of Litilit.

💪 Their specialty… Litilit's technology is based on an internationally patented method for generating ultrashort pulses, discovered by co-founder Kęstutis Regelskis with researchers at FTMC. Unlike many traditional femtosecond laser architectures, the company uses less complex components, a modular design and a higher degree of automation, making the systems more suitable for serial manufacturing.

🔑 Business model: B2B

💸 Funding so far: €13.3M and €2.5M EU R&D subsidy

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