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Public Health Detection Simplified

At Lightsense, we use optics, along with machine learning and analysis to provide better solutions for critical areas of public health like food safety, the overuse of antibiotics, and the opioid crisis. That’s why we developed a revolutionary new multispectral technology platform to redefine spectroscopy - providing a new generation of spectroscopic tools for analyzing materials and biological systems. Our company is pre-revenue and in prototyping stages with multiple patents and partnership paths underway.

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This Reg CF offering is made available through StartEngine Capital, LLC. This investment is speculative, illiquid, and involves a high degree of risk, including the possible loss of your entire investment.
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$180,362.27 Raised

TEAM

Terje Skotheim, Ph.D.

Terje Skotheim, Ph.D. • CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Terje is a world-renowned scientist in physics and materials science. For more than 25 years, after a successful academic career, Terje has focused on bringing technologies from the laboratory to the product stage, including advanced MEMS technology, spectrometers & sensors, lithium batteries, biosensors, and high-power lasers. Terje is part of 70 patents, 5 patent applications, and more than 200 publications. He is a founder of several start-up companies. He holds a B.S. in Physics from MIT and a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley.

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Bruce Berkoff

Bruce Berkoff • CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

Bruce has a long history and wealth of global experience in the technology industry, having held key marketing (CMO) positions at several leading technology companies. Bruce is currently an Advisor/Mentor at SkyDeck Berkeley, EIR at Vonzos Partners, Chairman of the LCD TV Association, and a frequent advisor to various startups. He was also CMO at CBRITE, CMO/CSO at Applied Materials (AMA T)/AKT, and EVP CMO at LG Philips LCD, and others. Bruce holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Physics and Biophysics from Princeton and UC Berkeley, respectively. He has been on the BoD of 5 public companies, including LG Display.

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Wade Poteet, Ph.D.

Wade Poteet, Ph.D. • CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

With more than 30 years experience as a research physicist/engineer, Wade has emphasized system design and manufacturing of advanced instrumentation in optics, electro-optics, and detector technology from X-rays to the far infrared spectrum, including ultra-high precision devices and large telescopes. He has received recognition awards from NASA and has a B.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

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ABOUT

HEADQUARTERS
7080 N CATHEDRAL ROCK PL
Tucson, AZ 85718
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At Lightsense, we use optics, along with machine learning and analysis to provide better solutions for critical areas of public health like food safety, the overuse of antibiotics, and the opioid crisis. That’s why we developed a revolutionary new multispectral technology platform to redefine spectroscopy - providing a new generation of spectroscopic tools for analyzing materials and biological systems. Our company is pre-revenue and in prototyping stages with multiple patents and partnership paths underway.

TERMS

Lightsense Technology
Overview
PRICE PER SHARE
$8.57
DEADLINE
Oct. 12, 2022 at 6:59 AM UTC
VALUATION
$18.02M
FUNDING GOAL
$10K - $2M
Breakdown
MIN INVESTMENT
$351.37
MAX INVESTMENT
$2,000,006.61
MIN NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED
1,167
MAX NUMBER OF SHARES OFFERED
233,373
OFFERING TYPE
Equity
SHARES OFFERED
Series Seed Preferred Stock

Maximum Number of Shares Offered subject to adjustment for bonus shares

*Maximum number of shares offered subject to adjustment for Bonus Shares. See Bonus Share info below.


Company Perks*

Audience-Based:

5% Bonus Shares for previous investors.

 

Time-Based:

Friends and Family Early Birds

Invest within the first 96 hours and receive 10% Bonus Shares.

Early Bird Bonus

Invest after the first 96 hours but within the first two weeks and receive 5% Bonus Shares.

 

Amount-Based (not "stacked" with time-based):

$1,000+

Invest $1,000+ and receive 2% Bonus Shares.

$5,000+

Invest $5,000+ and receive 5% Bonus Shares.

*All perks occur when the offering is completed.


The 10% StartEngine Owners' Bonus

Lightsense Technology will offer 10% additional Bonus Shares for all investments that are committed by investors that are eligible for the StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. Owner's bonus.

This means eligible StartEngine shareholders will receive a 10% Bonus Shares for any shares they purchase in this offering. For illustration, if an eligible StartEngine investor buys 100 shares of Series Seed Preferred Stock at $8.57 / share, that investor will receive 110 shares of Series Seed Preferred Stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $857. Fractional shares will not be distributed and share bonuses will be determined by rounding down to the nearest whole share.

This 10% Bonus is only valid during the investors' eligibility period. Investors eligible for this bonus will also have priority if they are on a waitlist to invest and the company surpasses its maximum funding goal. They will have the first opportunity to invest should room in the offering become available if prior investments are canceled or fail.

Subject to the provision related to the Owner's Bonus in the sentence following, Investors will receive the highest single bonus they are eligible for among the bonuses based on the amount invested and time of offering elapsed (if any). Eligible investors will also receive the Owner’s Bonus and the Previous Investors' Bonus in addition to the aforementioned bonus.

As provided in the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation, attached as Exhibit F, the issuance of Bonus shares to an investor will lower the per-share price of all such shares issued to such investor to reflect the issuance of such additional Bonus Shares (i.e., the Bonus Shares will have the same (lower) per-share price as all other shares being purchased, determined by dividing the total purchase price paid by the investor by the total number of shares acquired (including any Bonus Shares)—for illustration, if an investor purchases 100 shares for an aggregate investment of $875 and receives 10% Bonus Shares (resulting in 110 total shares), the per-share price (“Original Issue Price”) of each share issued to such investor (including each Bonus Share) will be deemed to be $7.7009 per share).

PRESS

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Lightsense Technology - A game changer in pathogen detection

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REWARDS

Multiple investments in an offering cannot be combined to qualify for a larger campaign reward.

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Members get an extra 10% shares in addition to rewards below!

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HOW INVESTING WORKS

Cancel anytime before 48 hours before a rolling close or the offering end date.

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RAISED
$180,362.27
INVESTORS
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MIN INVEST
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VALUATION
$18.02M

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