Name

MicroLED Association

Legal name

MicroLED Association (operated by Metalgrass LTD)

Website

https://microledassociation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Corporate Membership Fees: Annual membership fees collected from companies across the microLED industry value chain, ranging from $500 to $3,000 per year depending on company size tier. The association includes over 30 member companies including leading display makers, early stage startups, researchers, supply chain companies, and LED producers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

The MicroLED Association is a membership-based industry association that provides a neutral forum for companies, researchers, and organizations across the microLED display technology value chain. Its core offering is a tiered corporate membership program that grants access to industry roadmaps, white papers, standards initiatives, the MicroLED Library of technical content, monthly webinars, in-person events at major display conferences (DisplayWeek, Touch Taiwan), the MicroLED-Connect event series, and a professional LinkedIn community. Membership is sold at $500–$3,000 per year depending on company size, serving 30+ member companies.

Product overview

The MicroLED Association is an industry association offering a membership-based platform rather than a single product. Its core offering is the MicroLED Industry Association Membership program, which provides tiered access (Large Corporate, Corporate, SMB, and University tiers) to member benefits including white papers and industry roadmap documents, the MicroLED Library containing technical presentations and research papers, Events and Webinars for networking with industry stakeholders, Standards Initiatives for developing microLED guidelines, and promotional opportunities through the association's publications and events. The association serves over 30 member companies across the microLED value chain including display makers, startups, researchers, and supply chain companies.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MicroLED-Connect: Event series focused on the MicroLED industry, market and technology, organized by the MicroLED Industry Association in collaboration with Techblick

Products and services

• MicroLED Industry Association Corporate Membership Tiered corporate membership program for companies across the microLED value chain. Tiers include Large Corporate (>$100M yearly revenues), Corporate ($5–100M), SMB (<$5M), and University/research groups. Annual fees range from $500 to $3,000. Members gain access to white papers, the MicroLED Industry Roadmap, webinars, in-person meetings, the MicroLED Library, speaking opportunities, the private LinkedIn professional group, 1-on-1 consultation with the Managing Director, a free enterprise license to the MicroLED Handbook, a 20% discount on Metalgrass products, and discounts from supporting companies on tools, software, equipment, and services.
• MicroLED Library Online digital media library containing member company presentations, technical brochures, white papers, research papers, and technical documents covering microLED topics including color conversion, transfer processes, and measurement solutions. Members can publish their own brochures and presentations for targeted industry visibility.
• Events and Webinars Program of monthly online webinars and meetups with guest lectures and open Q&A, fireside chats, and in-person meetings including annual dinners and gatherings at SID DisplayWeek and Touch Taiwan. Members receive on-demand access to recordings and proceedings from all past events. Includes standards kickoff meetings (e.g., International Standards kickoff March 2024).
• Industry Roadmap and White Papers Annual industry roadmap documents and topic-specific white papers covering microLED technology trends, automotive displays, tiled displays, production yields, microdisplays standards, monolithic integration, full-color architectures, and efficiency. Available to members with summary editions for non-members. Examples: MicroLED Yields, Tiled Displays, Monolithic Integration, MicroLED Efficiency, MicroLED Full Color Architectures, 2026 MicroLED Industry Roadmap.
• Standards Initiatives Collaborative standards development efforts including the International Standards kickoff meeting (March 2024) and microdisplays soft-standard documentation providing guidelines for display metrics and performance disclosure. Open to members to participate in shaping industry-wide technical standards for microLED.

Named customers15 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles6 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core, major and minor.

• MetalgrasscoreOthersMetalgrass is the parent company that owns and operates the MicroLED Industry Association. They offer display industry specific knowledge hubs and market intelligence services, including microLED books, market reports, and data services. MIA members receive 20% discount on Metalgrass products.
• TechBlickcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerTechBlick is a year-round platform for onsite and online conferences, classes, and technology insights in emerging tech. They co-organize the MicroLED-Connect event series with the association and offer discounts to MIA members.
• Society for Information Display (SID)majorGTM or Marketing PartnerSID is a major display industry organization founded in 1962, comprised of top scientists, engineers, corporate researchers, and business people in the display industry. They publish the Journal of SID, Information Display magazine, and organize the annual DisplayWeek event. SID offers discounts to MIA members.
• MicroLED-ConnectcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMicroLED-Connect is an event series focused on the MicroLED industry, market and technology, organized by the MicroLED Industry Association in collaboration with TechBlick. This world-class event brings together the whole industry with focus on high quality agenda, exhibition and networking opportunities.
• Display Training CenterminorGTM or Marketing PartnerDisplay Training Center offers AR headset tear-down reports featuring in-depth explanations of major systems, sub-systems and components in leading AR glasses. They offer special discounts to MIA members.
• RX GlobalminorGTM or Marketing PartnerRX Global is a multinational event organizer with over 350 events across 25 countries, organizing the C-Touch and Display event in Shenzhen. They offer MIA members discounts and speaking opportunities at their events.
• Taiwan Display Materials and Devices Association (TDMDA)minorGTM or Marketing PartnerTDMDA, founded in 2003, is comprised of companies in raw materials, devices, models, panels, and systems in the display industry. They provide services connecting government, industry, and academia, and organize Touch Taiwan, Taiwan's leading display event.
• JOYA TeamminorGTM or Marketing PartnerJOYA Team is an optical technologies house offering optical systems development services. They offer free AR/VR technology consultation sessions to MIA members.
• DisplayMate TechnologiesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDisplayMate Technologies collaborates and works with MIA member companies in custom projects for measuring, optimizing, and certifying microLED display performance.
• AIS 2026minorGTM or Marketing PartnerAIS 2026 is the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers, held 2-7 August 2026 in Jeju, Korea. Focused on sensors, IoT, material science and optoelectronics. They offer exhibition and sponsorship discounts for MIA members (at least 5%).

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• SEMI: SEMI is the global semiconductor manufacturing and supply-chain association representing equipment, materials and fab players. Several MIA member companies (Tokyo Electron, Veeco, Coherent) are also SEMI members, making it an upstream incumbent serving an overlapping supplier base.
• Consumer Technology Association (CTA): CTA is the US trade association that runs CES and represents consumer electronics brands including TV and AR/VR device makers — end-customer segments identified in MIA's own segmentation. It is a broader incumbent covering MIA's downstream device-maker segment.
• IPC International: IPC is a global electronics industry association focused on standards, training and certification for electronics manufacturing — overlapping with MIA's equipment, materials and process solution providers in the microLED supply chain.
• International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC): IEC is the international standards body for electrotechnology. MIA's microdisplay standards initiative and International Standards kickoff meeting position MIA as a feeder into broader standards work coordinated at the IEC level, making IEC a related incumbent.
• IEEE Consumer Technology Society: IEEE CTSoc is a large professional society running conferences, publications and standards for consumer electronics including displays. It overlaps with MIA in audience (engineers and researchers in display-adjacent technologies) but operates at much broader scope.

Direct peers

• TechBlick: TechBlick is a year-round platform for onsite and online conferences on emerging display and electronics technologies. It co-organizes the MicroLED-Connect event series with MIA and serves a comparable audience of emerging-tech suppliers and integrators.
• OLED Association: The OLED Association is a display-technology trade body that pursues the same model — corporate membership, white papers, roadmaps and supply-chain coordination — but for OLED rather than microLED. It is the closest structural analog to MIA.
• International Display Workshops (IDW): IDW is an annual international workshop series covering display technologies including microLED, OLED and LCD, organized jointly by SID and the Japan Society of Applied Physics. It directly competes with MicroLED-Connect for industry technical content and sponsorship.
• Society for Information Display (SID): SID is the established global display-industry professional society (founded 1962), publishing Journal of SID and Information Display and organizing the flagship DisplayWeek event where MIA holds its annual meeting. SID directly overlaps with MIA in membership base, content, and standards work for displays.

Regional players

• Taiwan Display Materials and Devices Association (TDMDA): TDMDA is a Taiwan-based industry association of materials, device, panel and system companies that organizes the Touch Taiwan event. It serves the same value-chain participants as MIA but with a regional (Taiwan) focus and broader display coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

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