Bridgelux in the News

Fan propels third company toward public arena
A company looking for explosive growth would do well to look to Gloria Fan for financial guidance. Barely in her 40s , Fan already has helped shepherd two Silicon Valley venture-backed companies into the public arena.
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Lighting the Way to Efficiency
Energy-efficient lighting startups are competing to deliver power savings through a variety of technologies, including microplasma lights, high-intensity discharge lighting ballast systems, organic light-emitting diodes and other.
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Greentech Innovations: LED Lights to Drop by 50% or More Next Year?
Penny per lumen. It’s a good slogan and one Mark Swoboda, CEO of LED maker Bridgelux, says his company will live up to early next year.
In early 2009, the company plans to release a series of white light LEDs that will allow manufacturers to make LED light fixtures that cost 50 percent less than current LED fixtures, he said in an interview. The discount might even be larger.
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Will the Computer Giants Invade Lighting Too?
This year, we saw Intel, IBM, LG and others jump into the solar market, following a path blazed by Applied Materials two years ago. Cisco, Freescale and several startups like GainSpan are busy porting wireless chips and equipment originally designed for consumer electronics and computers into smart meters and energy efficient appliances. WiMax, the wireless broadband protocol, is coming to connect homes and utilities. What will the computer world colonize next? Probably lighting.
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Green Tech Startup Weathers Downturn By Sticking To Its Business Plan And Seeking New Money
Bridgelux may be more fortunate than many Silicon Valley startups. The Sunnyvale maker of LED chips for the commercial lighting market has a substantial sum of money in the bank after raising $30 million in March. It also has products in the market, announcing in June volume shipments of its latest NLX-5 energy-saving diode.
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Clean Tech Funding May Be Squeezed, But VC Points To Four Hot Startupst
Clean-tech startups may be having a tough time getting money, but the financial turmoil gripping Wall Street hasn’t diminished their market opportunities.
Green technology companies may do to the lighting, auto and electric industries what computer-technology companies did to information technology over the past decades, said Stephan Dolezalek, managing director at VantagePoint Venture Partners.
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Bridgelux adds marketing and sales execs in US and Europe
Bridgelux Inc of Sunnyvale, CA, USA, which designs and makes ITO/InGaN-based LED chips for solid-state lighting (using high-volume production capacity in Asia), has appointed Keith Scott as VP of business development and David Barnby (based in Paris, France) as VP of sales and general manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
(Semiconductor Today, 23 April 2008)
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LED lighting company raises $30 million from VCs
LONDON — Bridgelux Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), a supplier of LED technology for solid-state lighting founded in 2002, has announced that is it has raised $30 million in private equity investment and approximately $10 million of lines of credit with banks.
(EE Times Europe, 04/08/2008)
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Bridgelux gets $40M new financing
Bridgelux Inc., a supplier of LED technology for high-volume, solid state lighting markets, said Tuesday it received about $40 million in its latest round of financing.
(Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal, Tuesday, April 8, 2008)
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Entrepreneur Magazine selects Bridgelux CTO Heng Liu as a “Next Gen Innovator”
As founder and CTO of Bridgelux, Dr. Heng Liu is selected as one of the technology innovators featured in Entrepreneur Magazine’s cover story
(Entrepreneur Magazine, Sep, 2006)
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Bridgelux is ideally typical of next push in solid state lighting
Bridgelux’s high level of talent and experience in R&D and management is highlighted
(LIGHTimes Online, Aug. 31, 2006): 
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KO series LED chip by Bridgelux pushes barrier for overall light extraction
The scalable KO LED chip series yields a 10-30% increase in light output efficiency and includes the only 60-mil chip available in production volumes today.
(Optics.org, Jul 14, 2006)
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