What Lumetis does

Lumetis SAS is a French deep-technology startup founded in 2022 and headquartered in Labège (near Toulouse), specializing in portable, multimodal imaging and spectroscopy instruments. Its core product family — METISCOPE®, METISPOT, METISCOPE MEMORY, and ARTFULCAM — combines fluorescence, multispectral reflectance, dark field, bright field, and transmission imaging with contactless spectroscopy spanning 420–1650 nm, all unified by the LUMISOFT software platform. The underlying technology is protected by patents in lighting, detection, and image analysis, and was developed inside the CNES expert laboratory, giving the systems space-grade reliability and the ability to operate independently of ambient lighting on materials undetectable by the naked eye or conventional instruments. Resolution reaches 3 µm (METISCOPE®) and 600 Mpx (ARTFULCAM), with non-contact analysis at 40 cm distance for sub-millimeter targets.

The company serves enterprise, government, and research customers across multiple verticals: quality control and industrial non-destructive testing, aerospace component qualification (Airbus Defence and Space, CNES), space exploration payloads (MultISS for the ISS, Geoassist for lunar missions targeted for 2028), art and cultural heritage authentication (Chauvet Cave, Thoutmosis III tomb, National Museum of Capodimonte), defense, medical/pharmaceutical, cleanrooms, and forensic analysis. Revenue is generated through direct enterprise sales of high-value scientific instruments and, more recently, imaging services that produce blockchain-stored digital passports for artworks. The go-to-market is high-touch: personalized demonstrations at trade shows such as Global Industrie and ESREF, combined with direct engagement and custom solutions — no self-serve or online purchasing is offered.

Founded by Fulvio Infante (CEO), Guillaume Thin (COO), Philippe Walter (CSO, Academician of Sciences, CNRS Research Director), and Frédéric Bourcier (CTO, 25+ years at CNES), Lumetis operates with a 7–8 person team and is supported by institutional partners including CNES, CNRS, ESA, BPI France, Aerospace Valley, and TechTheMoon. Despite its small size, the company has secured flagship reference customers in the most demanding institutional settings and is positioned as an emerging European leader in portable multimodal optical analysis.

Name

Lumetis

Legal name

Lumetis SAS

Website

https://lumetis.fr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lumetis is a French deep-tech startup that builds patented, portable multimodal imaging and spectroscopy instruments (METISCOPE®, METISPOT, METISCOPE MEMORY, ARTFULCAM) that detect materials invisible to the naked eye, serving enterprise, government, and research customers in quality control, aerospace, space exploration, and cultural heritage.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scientific Imaging Instruments

NAICS

Analytical Laboratory Instrument Manufacturing (334516), Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing (33451)

SIC

Optical Instruments & Lenses (3827), Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Microscopy, Imaging & Flow Cytometry Instruments (HLAGAIAE)

Keywords

• Multimodal imaging systems
• Scientific spectroscopy instruments
• Non-destructive testing cameras
• Portable imaging instruments
• Art analysis equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Labège

HQ country

France

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Scientific Imaging Instruments Sales: Sale of specialized multimodal imaging and spectroscopy instruments (METISCOPE®, METISPOT, METISCOPE MEMORY, ARTFULCAM). Instruments are high-value scientific equipment sold directly to enterprise customers in aerospace, defense, art, archaeology, and quality control sectors.
2. Imaging Services: Lumetis offers an innovative imaging service to digitize artworks, revealing details invisible to the naked eye. Service includes creation of dynamic digital passports with blockchain storage for art authentication and traceability.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Lumetis develops and sells portable, multimodal imaging and spectroscopy instruments (METISCOPE®, METISPOT, METISCOPE MEMORY, ARTFULCAM) powered by its LUMISOFT software platform. Using patented innovations in lighting, detection, and image analysis, the systems detect and analyze materials and elements invisible to the naked eye, performing contactless, in-situ, real-time multi-spectral analysis for aerospace, defense, cultural heritage, archaeology, and industrial quality control customers.

Product overview

Lumetis offers a portfolio of portable, multimodal imaging and spectroscopy systems centered on four proprietary instruments — METISCOPE®, METISPOT, METISCOPE MEMORY, and ARTFULCAM — all powered by the LUMISOFT software platform. The METISCOPE® is a multimodal imaging device for fluorescence, multispectral reflectance, and dark field imaging; METISPOT extends this to spectroscopy for material identification; METISCOPE MEMORY focuses on automated, reproducible inspection for digital twin documentation; and ARTFULCAM tailors these capabilities specifically to art analysis with ultra-high-resolution VIS-SWIR imaging and blockchain-based digital passporting. Two specialized space instruments — MultISS (for ISS biocontamination monitoring) and Geoassist (for lunar geological assistance) — extend the portfolio into space exploration applications. Together, the product line enables in-situ, contactless, multi-spectral and multi-modal analysis across quality control, art, archaeology, defense, medical, cleanroom, forensic, and space sectors.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• METISCOPE® Portable, multimodal imaging system combining fluorescence, multispectral reflectance (8 spectral bands from 470 to 950 nm), and dark field imaging, with spatial resolution down to 3 µm, designed for molecular and particulate contamination detection and non-destructive testing of optics, electronics, connectors, and coatings.
• METISPOT Multimodal spectroscopy system delivering fluorescence and reflectance spectroscopy (420 to 1000 nm) with contactless spectral point analysis of 1 mm² at 40 cm from the object, used for material identification including pigments, organic contaminants, biological materials, and minerals.
• METISCOPE MEMORY Automated multimodal inspection tool providing bright field, dark field, and transmission imaging with reproducible, comparable inspection over time, used for incoming inspection, component documentation (digital twins), condition assessment, and component qualification.
• ARTFULCAM Multimodal imaging system dedicated to art analysis, combining fluorescence and multispectral reflectance imaging (8 bands from 470 to 950 nm) with VIS-SWIR multispectral reflectance imaging (12 bands from 420 to 1650 nm) at ultra-high 600 Mpx resolution, used to analyze artworks and painting techniques and to produce scientific documentation and condition assessments.
• LUMISOFT Intuitive user-interface software platform that bundles quick data acquisition and innovative image-analysis tools and is compatible with all Lumetis imaging and spectroscopy instruments.
• MultISS Space-qualified multimodal imager developed with CNES, ESA, and COMAT to observe and analyze surface biocontaminations aboard the International Space Station via multi-spectral and fluorescence analysis, supporting astronaut health and equipment durability on long-duration spaceflights.
• Geoassist Portable scientific imaging device under development with CNES and COMAT for geological assistance during future lunar missions, enabling on-site screening and selection of geological samples of interest and providing contextual information about sample collection sites, with planned detection-range extensions to 1700 nm and then 2500 nm.
• Art Digitization Imaging Service Imaging service that digitizes artworks in place, revealing details invisible to the naked eye and producing dynamic digital passports stored on blockchain for art authentication and traceability.

Quantifiable outcome

• Spatial resolution down to 3μm with METISCOPE®
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and supportive.

• CNES (Centre National d'Études Spatiales)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInstitutional partner from which Lumetis technologies originated. CNES expert laboratory provided the foundation for Lumetis innovations. Ongoing collaboration includes Metiscope Memory deployment, MultISS project for ESA's εpsilon mission, and Geoassist lunar geology assistance development.
• CNRScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational research partner. Philippe Walter serves as Research Director at CNRS and founder of LAMS (Laboratory of Molecular and Structural Archaeology). Enables scientific expertise and research collaborations in archaeology and heritage science.
• ESA (European Space Agency)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEuropean Space Agency collaborating on space exploration applications. MultISS instrument being tested for ISS use. ESA BIC Sud France supports Lumetis as a startup. Participation in LUNA lunar simulation center experiments.
• TechTheMooncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWorld's first business incubator dedicated to lunar exploration. Lumetis is a graduate of TechTheMoon's first cohort. Incubator supports startups developing technologies for lunar exploration.
• Aerospace ValleysupportiveStrategic or Co-development PartnerEurope's leading aerospace competitiveness cluster. Supports Lumetis in SURE 5.0 program implementation and provides ecosystem connections in the aerospace sector.
• Airbus Defence and SpacecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDelivery of Metiscope Memory to Airbus Germany for component inspection, documentation, and qualification. Major enterprise customer marking a decisive milestone in the partnership.
• COMATsupportiveTechnology or IntegrationSpace technology company collaborating with Lumetis on the Geoassist project. Partnered on spatialization studies confirming feasibility of lunar geology instrument adaptation.
• Spartan SpacesupportiveStrategic or Co-development PartnerOrganized the LUNA simulation experiment at ESA/DLR facility where Lumetis tested lunar exploration technologies under simulated conditions.
• SICOVALsupportiveStrategic or Co-development PartnerSoutheast Toulouse Intercommunal Authority, the local government body in the region where Lumetis is based.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Leica Microsystems: Leica (Danaher) offers industrial microscopy, fluorescence imaging, and stereo microscopy solutions used in materials QC and life-sciences inspection. Its installed base in semiconductor and biomedical laboratories is adjacent to Lumetis's QC and contamination-detection customers.
• Keyence: Keyence supplies industrial machine-vision, optical, and microscopic measurement systems to global manufacturers for non-contact inspection. Its breadth in industrial QC imaging is a comparable commercial analog to Lumetis's METISCOPE MEMORY for incoming inspection and component qualification.
• Carl Zeiss Microscopy: Carl Zeiss provides industrial and research microscopy plus optical metrology tools (e.g., Smartzoom, Axio series). Its optical-component expertise and global service network position it as a broad incumbent in the imaging-instrument category where Lumetis competes in QC and component documentation.
• Nikon Metrology / Industrial Microscopy: Nikon's industrial measurement and microscopy division delivers optical and digital inspection systems for QC and materials analysis, providing a comparable established offering in the precision imaging and inspection space.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Analytical Instruments): Thermo Fisher's Analytical Instruments segment provides spectroscopy, materials characterization, and contamination-detection systems serving pharma, materials, and electronics manufacturing — the same sectors Lumetis targets with METISCOPE for non-destructive testing and contamination control.

Direct peers

• Renishaw: Renishaw's Raman spectroscopy division supplies inVia and Virsa systems for materials analysis and 3D imaging used in materials science, QC, art conservation, and geology — comparable end markets to Lumetis's spectroscopy and art-analysis applications and an overlapping technological basis.
• HORIBA Scientific: HORIBA Scientific produces Raman, fluorescence, and multispectral imaging systems for materials characterization and contamination analysis. Its scientific-instrument portfolio — particularly Raman imaging and fluorescence spectroscopy — competes directly with Lumetis's METISCOPE / METISPOT stack across research, semiconductor QC, and biomedical applications.
• Bruker: Bruker manufactures analytical instruments including Raman, FTIR, and fluorescence spectroscopy systems used for materials identification and QC — a very similar product axis to Lumetis's METISPOT spectroscopy and METISCOPE multimodal imaging line. Bruker's portable and laboratory systems target overlapping customer profiles in materials, life science, and applied industrial markets.

Emerging players

• Tornado Spectral Systems: Tornado Spectral Systems builds compact Raman spectrometers for process analytical technology and portable chemical identification. Its focus on miniaturized, in-line spectroscopy for industrial environments is a partial direct overlap with Lumetis's METISPOT contactless spectroscopy.
• Wasatch Photonics: Wasatch Photonics builds compact and portable Raman and hyperspectral imaging systems for industrial and biomedical inspection. Its focus on compact form factor and multimodal spectroscopy overlaps with Lumetis's pocket-laboratory positioning for in-situ chemical imaging.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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