News
2026 02 Posts
2025 04 Posts
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Advanced Optronics Closes $1.25M Pre-Seed Round
Our $1.25M pre-seed round, led by the Richard King Mellon Foundation.
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“Scaling Olympus” in CMU’s The Link Magazine
CMU’s The Link magazine features Advanced Optronics in its story on Project Olympus.
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Australian Patent Granted on Core Strain Sensor Technology
Our first patent on the core technology behind FlexDetect is granted.
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$1.3M NIH SBIR Phase 2 Award: Year 1
NIH funds our Sixth Sense Surgical guidance system for cochlear implant surgery.
2024 03 Posts
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CMU Engineering Features Advanced Optronics in Spinout Roundup
Advanced Optronics is featured in CMU Engineering’s roundup of spinout startups.
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Personalities of Pittsburgh: Jay Reddy in the Pittsburgh Business Times
The Pittsburgh Business Times profiles co-founder and CEO Jay Reddy.
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Advanced Optronics and Carnegie Mellon University Awarded $650,000 NSF Grant to Develop Bio-Inspired Medical Instruments
An NSF grant with CMU for surgical instruments that sense their own shape.
2023 07 Posts
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Technical.ly Checks In on Its 2023 RealLIST Startups
Technical.ly names us a 2023 RealLIST startup and checks in on our progress.
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$275,000 NIH SBIR Phase 1 Award
NIH funds tests of real-time sensor feedback for cochlear implant surgery.
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Presentation at the American Neurotology Society 2023 Annual Meeting
Advanced Optronics attends the ANS 2023 Annual Meeting in Boston and presents its research.
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$350,000 Investment from the Richard King Mellon Foundation
A program-related investment to build our cochlear implant guidance system.
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AlphaLab Health Demo Day
We complete the AlphaLab Health accelerator and present at Demo Day.
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Advanced Optronics Participates in NSF I-Corps
An NSF grant funds 100+ interviews on the needs of cochlear implant care.
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Advanced Optronics Secures Exclusive License
An exclusive, worldwide license to our core sensor technology from CMU.
2022 04 Posts
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Advanced Optronics Accepted to AlphaLab Health 2022 Cohort
We join AlphaLab Health’s six-month accelerator, with a $100,000 investment.
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Advanced Optronics Places Second in the CMU McGinnis Venture Competition
Second place in the graduate division, and a $15,000 prize.
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Advanced Optronics Wins $25,000 Pediatric Device Prize at the Rice Business Plan Competition
The $25,000 Pediatric Device Prize, among 42 student startups.
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Advanced Optronics Places Second in the Duquesne New Venture Challenge
Second place and $8,000 in Duquesne’s startup competition.