What Acktar does

Acktar is an Israeli for-profit private technology company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Kiryat Gat, Israel. According to its brief firmographic description, the company engages in 'the development, industrialization and production' of technology, although no specific product vertical, underlying technology stack, application domain, or end-market is disclosed in the available data. The company is led by CTO Dina Katsir, the sole disclosed executive, and operates with a headcount of 1-10 employees — an unusually small footprint for a firm that has been incorporated for roughly three decades. No chief executive, CFO, board members, or other senior leaders are documented.

The company's website (acktar.com) was inaccessible during data collection, returning only a loader/verification screen with no substantive content. This leaves a substantial evidence gap for product details, pricing structure, customer composition, and revenue mechanics. No funding rounds, M&A activity, partnerships, regulatory milestones, certifications, patents, trademarks, geographic footprint data, or social media presence are documented in the input set. Enrichment fields for revenue, legal name, ownership, operating status, subsidiaries, and company history all return null or empty values, reinforcing that this is a data-thin environment rather than a documented minimal operation.

Without accessible primary sources, any inference about Acktar's commercial model — whether it operates as a contract manufacturer, specialty materials supplier, industrial design services firm, or a dormant research entity — would be speculation not grounded in the input. An investor, acquirer, or counterparty should treat this profile as a starting point for direct diligence: founding year, jurisdiction (Israel), and technical positioning are the only confirmed attributes. Recommended diligence steps include direct outreach to CTO Dina Katsir, verification of operating status with the Israeli Companies Registrar, confirmation of revenue and customer concentration, and review of any IP filings or industrial certifications that may sit outside the indexed web.

Name

Acktar

Website

https://acktar.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Acktar is a small Israeli private technology company founded in 1994 and headquartered in Kiryat Gat, engaged in technology development, industrialization, and production, operating with 1-10 employees under disclosed CTO Dina Katsir.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Kiryat Gat

HQ country

Israel

HQ region

Middle East

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Acktar is an Israeli industrial technology company engaged in the development, industrialization, and production of technology-based products. The company operates a manufacturing facility in Kiryat Gat, Israel, focused on taking technological concepts from development through to scaled industrial production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Others

• HORIBA Scientific: HORIBA Scientific supplies spectroscopy and optical instrumentation—using absorptive coatings in its own subsystems—making it a comparable high-end photonics specifier/buyer adjacent to Acktar's target customer profile.

Broad incumbents

• Thorlabs: Thorlabs is a broad optics, photonics, and laser-components supplier that offers its own absorptive coatings and integrates them into instrument subsystems—competing with Acktar for OEM coating sockets across research and aerospace customers.
• Edmund Optics: Edmund Optics manufactures and distributes a broad optics portfolio including absorptive ND filters and absorptive surface treatments, overlapping with Acktar's ultra-black coating offering to industrial and R&D customers.
• Newport Corporation (MKS Instruments): Newport, an MKS brand, sells optical components, coatings, and subsystems into laser, research, and aerospace customers—offering absorptive coatings that substitute for Acktar's products in OEM bill-of-materials decisions.
• Coherent Corp: Coherent (formerly II-VI) supplies laser optics and high-end thin-film coatings across industrial, aerospace, and defense markets, competing with Acktar for design-in slots on laser and photonic system integration programs.

Regional players

• Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI): IAI, Israel's largest aerospace and defense prime, integrates specialty coatings and optical absorbers across space, missile, and electro-optic programs—representing both a major potential customer and a regional concentration reference for Acktar's Israel-base strategy.

Direct peers

• Surrey NanoSystems: Surrey NanoSystems manufactures Vantablack, the leading ultra-black coating technology—a direct functional rival to Acktar's Fractal Black in stray-light suppression for optics, space, and scientific instruments.

Emerging players

• OptoSigma: OptoSigma supplies optical components and surface treatments to research, photonics, and industrial customers in Asia and globally, providing an alternative absorptive coating source that competes for similar design-in sockets as Acktar.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Acktar

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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