# Nathan Monroe

> Nathan Monroe is the co-founder and CEO of Cambridge Terahertz, an MIT spinout building compact, affordable concealed-weapons detection. A PhD electrical engineer who demonstrated one of the largest terahertz phased antenna arrays ever built on standard CMOS, he shrank refrigerator-sized scanner physics into a device smaller than a toaster. After a school shooting marked his teenage years in Florida, he spent more than a decade at MIT turning terahertz sensing into a real product. Cambridge Terahertz uses safe, non-ionizing radio waves and AI to see weapons through clothing and packaging, and raised a $12M seed round backed by Amazon and Felicis.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Cambridge Terahertz
- **Organizations:** Cambridge Terahertz, MIT, Microsoft
- **From:** Florida, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** PhD, Electrical Engineering (Terahertz Integrated Electronics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Demonstrated one of the highest-performance terahertz phased antenna arrays to date, with roughly 10,000 antennas, Developed the first THz circuits in Intel's 22nm FinFET process, Built the world's largest terahertz phased array antenna using scalable CMOS processes

## Career timeline

- **pre-2015** — Worked at Microsoft, helping bring new sensor technologies to market with Xbox Kinect
- **2015-2022** — PhD researcher in the Terahertz Integrated Electronics group at MIT
- **2021** — Cambridge Terahertz spins out of MIT to commercialize terahertz sensor research
- **2022** — Completes PhD at MIT focused on Terahertz Integrated Electronics
- **2023** — Co-founds and leads Cambridge Terahertz as CEO with Anand Dixit
- **2025** — Closes $12M seed round backed by Amazon, Felicis and Tishman Speyer; speaks at GSX 2025

## Achievements

- Demonstrated one of the highest-performance terahertz phased antenna arrays to date, with roughly 10,000 antennas
- Developed the first THz circuits in Intel's 22nm FinFET process
- Built the world's largest terahertz phased array antenna using scalable CMOS processes
- Filed 6 patents
- Co-founded Cambridge Terahertz, which holds an FCC THz license and 5 active US Government/DoD contracts
- Raised a $12M seed round (reported $17M total) with backing from Amazon and Felicis Ventures
- Ran 300+ demos with Fortune 500 leaders and secured 10+ letters of intent

## Latest updates

- **2025-07** — Cambridge Terahertz closed a $12M seed round backed by Amazon's industrial fund and Felicis; covered by CNBC for applications including retail return-fraud detection.
- **2025-09** — Spoke at the Global Security Exchange (GSX) 2025.

## Links

- Website: https://thzcorp.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natmon/

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Last updated: 2026-06-27