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Zernike Precision Optics

Custom aspheric lenses from robotic optical fabrication

Raised to date

$431K

of $431K offered across 1 Form D filing

Investors
2
Last filed
Mar 24, 2026

About

Zernike Precision Optics is an Indiana startup founded in 2025 by four Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology graduates -- Elijah Johnson, Andrew Nichols, Evan O'Brien, and Ryan Brown -- to manufacture custom aspheric lenses and precision optical components. It uses machine-learning-driven robotics to automate expert-level optical fabrication, which it says lets it deliver custom aspheres in weeks rather than the months traditional vendors take. Customers submit an optical prescription and work directly with the company's optical engineers rather than through sales intermediaries. The company took investment from Rose Angels and has been affiliated with VentureWell, AmeriCOM, Amplify Bloomington, and gener8tor.

Automates the expert hand-figuring step of asphere fabrication with ML-driven robotics, collapsing custom optics lead times from months to weeks and removing the middleman between customer and optical engineer.

Funding

  • Option to acquireFiled Mar 24, 2026Form D
    $431K/ $431K

Product

Custom aspheric lenses

Optical components manufacturing

Made-to-order aspheric optical elements, from simple conics through high-order aspheres, manufactured to a customer-supplied prescription.

  • Simple conics through high-order aspheric geometries
  • AI/ML-powered robotic fabrication and process automation
  • Weeks-not-months turnaround

Built for

Optical and photonics engineers in aerospace, defense, healthcare, semiconductor, research, and industrial organizations that need custom high-tolerance optics

People on file