
Lightsense Technology designs and manufactures innovative, miniaturized spectrometers. These handheld devices serve a wide range of material analysis applications, focusing on public health issues like detecting illicit drugs and bacterial pathogens, as well as environmental monitoring. Their technology translates expensive, tabletop spectrometer instrumentation into affordable, portable platforms with unique identification and analysis capabilities. Key applications include illicit drug detection for law enforcement, industrial process monitoring for real-time control of gases, liquids, and solids, and pathogen detection for food safety. The company's spectrometers are faster and less expensive than competing technologies.

Lightsense Technology designs and manufactures innovative, miniaturized spectrometers. These handheld devices serve a wide range of material analysis applications, focusing on public health issues like detecting illicit drugs and bacterial pathogens, as well as environmental monitoring. Their technology translates expensive, tabletop spectrometer instrumentation into affordable, portable platforms with unique identification and analysis capabilities. Key applications include illicit drug detection for law enforcement, industrial process monitoring for real-time control of gases, liquids, and solids, and pathogen detection for food safety. The company's spectrometers are faster and less expensive than competing technologies.
Product: Miniaturized handheld multi-spectrometers (DrugDetect-F1 named product)
Primary markets: Law enforcement (illicit drug detection), food safety/pathogen screening, industrial/process monitoring
Founded / HQ: 2015, Tucson, Arizona
Team size: About 13 employees
Funding: No publicly disclosed funding rounds found
Portable chemical and molecular identification for public health, safety, and industrial process control.
2015
Spectroscopy / Analytical instruments / Public health diagnostics
Total Funding: 0.00