Peafowl Plasmonics
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Peafowl Plasmonics is a Swedish deep-tech startup founded in 2018 as a spin-out from Uppsala University's Angstrom Laboratory. It commercializes the world's first direct plasmonic solar cell: a completely transparent light-harvesting cell using plasmonic nanoparticles as the active material, aimed at self-powered low-power devices such as indoor sensors, e-paper displays, and dynamic windows.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Peafowl is founded (as Peafowl Solar Power) to commercialize plasmonic solar-cell research from Uppsala University.
- Funding round
The company raises 40 million Swedish kronor (about $4 million) in a seed round co-led by Industrifonden and Navigare Ventures, and changes its name to Peafowl Plasmonics.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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