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Ratson Morad Has Spent a Career Turning Difficult Physics Into Repeatable Manufacturing
Before smartglasses, Ratson Morad worked on MRI systems, 300 mm wafer tools and solar modules. The industries changed; his practical question did not: how do you make difficult technology reliably, repeatedly and at scale?
Ziv Attar
Ziv Attar is the co-founder and CEO of Glass Imaging, a California startup building GlassAI, a neural image processing system that corrects optical aberrations and sensor imperfections to pull sharper, more detailed pictures out of small cameras. An optical engineer trained at the Technion, he founded LinX Imaging in 2011 and sold it to Apple in 2015, then led computational photography work at Apple including the Portrait Mode that shipped on the iPhone 7+. In 2025 Glass Imaging raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners.
DigiLens Inc.
DigiLens is a Silicon Valley optics company that designs, manufactures, and licenses holographic waveguide displays - the transparent, printed lenses that let augmented reality smartglasses overlay digital information onto the real world. Founded in 2003 as SBG Labs around a switchable Bragg grating technology, the company pairs its proprietary CrystalClear photopolymer with an inkjet-printing and holographic contact-copy process it argues can scale AR optics to consumer price points. Alongside licensing its optics to manufacturers, DigiLens builds ARGO, a standalone AR/XR smartglasses platform aimed at enterprise and industrial workers, and counts Samsung, Sony, Continental, and Niantic among its investors.
Junwei Bao
Junwei Bao is the co-founder and CEO of Seyond (formerly Innovusion), a Silicon Valley-founded LiDAR company that went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in December 2025. With a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and a physics background from Peking University, Bao spent nearly two decades building precision optical sensors before pivoting to autonomous-driving hardware. He co-founded Timbre Technologies - the company that invented OCD (optical critical dimension) scatterometry, a kind of microscale LiDAR for semiconductors - then led Baidu's autonomous driving hardware division before founding Innovusion in 2016. Under his leadership, Seyond delivered 230,000 automotive-grade LiDAR units in 2024 and holds a 12.8% global ADAS LiDAR market share, ranking fourth worldwide.