Rockley Photonics announced a $65 million round of growth funding backed by Morningside Ventures.

Rockley Photonics, an Oxford, UK-based manufacturer of integrated photonics chipsets, announced that it completed a growth funding round of $65 million.

The money was raised from new and existing investors, including existing shareholders from Morningside Ventures.

The proceeds of the investment will be used to accelerate its product offerings, particularly our integrated optical sensors products.

Rockley Photonics, founded in 2013 by CEO Andrew Rickman, developed a highly versatile, application specific, third-generation silicon photonics platform specifically designed for the optical integration challenges facing numerous mega-trend markets. The platform offers products for broad market applications ranging from communications to consumers.

To date, Rockley has raised over $290m of financing from recent investors such as Credit Suisse backed SIG-I Capital and Applied Ventures, LLC, the venture capital arm of Applied Materials, Inc.  The company has offices in Pasadena, San Jose, Oxford, Cardiff, Cork, and Helsinki.