Austrian tech firm Hololight raises €10 million for advancements in XR pixel-streaming technology
Hololight, an Austrian deeptech company specializing in XR (Extended Reality) pixel-streaming technology, is currently in a strong growth phase following a recent €10 million funding round secured in July 2025. The investment was led by Cipio Partners, with participation from existing investors such as Bayern Kapital and Direttissima Growth Partners, among others.
Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Innsbruck, with offices also in Germany and the U.S., Hololight develops technology that allows AR (Augmented Reality) and VR (Virtual Reality) applications to offload rendering to cloud or on-premise servers. This makes it possible to stream XR experiences in real time to lightweight headsets with high performance and strong data security, addressing the traditional limitations of device computing power.
Hololight's platform supports OpenXR-compatible applications without requiring software adaptation for different devices, simplifying enterprise XR deployment. The company has over 150 international customers and partners, including major corporations like Accenture, BMW, Procter & Gamble, and Engie.
The €10 million will be used to accelerate the global rollout of its XR streaming platform and enhance the core technology further. Hololight aims to enable AR/VR applications to be streamed as effortlessly as Netflix streams movies, making XR experiences more accessible and wireless. The company plans to scale adoption worldwide, pursue new markets (including consumer markets in the future), and expand product development and sales.
Strengthening collaborations with industry partners like NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Snap, and Meta is part of their growth strategy. Hololight's latest development, Hololight Stream Runtime, enables the streaming of any OpenXR-compatible app with one click. This technology allows companies to scale AR/VR applications more easily by sending data centrally from the cloud or on-premises to AR/VR devices.
Florian Haspinger, CEO and co-founder of Hololight, stated that their goal is to make every AR/VR application available wirelessly, as easy and accessible as Netflix streams movies. With this investment, Hololight can further scale its existing business and market Hololight Stream Runtime worldwide.
In summary, Hololight is poised to consolidate its position as a leader in XR pixel streaming by scaling its innovative platform internationally, enhancing technology capabilities, and widening the market impact both in industrial and eventually consumer XR applications.
- Hololight, a deeptech company specializing in XR pixel-streaming technology, plans to use the €10 million venture-capital investment to further strengthen its technology, aiming to make AR/VR applications accessible just like streaming movies on Netflix, while expanding product development and sales worldwide.
- To achieve its goals, Hololight seeks to collaborate more closely with technology giants such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Snap, and Meta, and has recently developed Hololight Stream Runtime, a technology that enables the streaming of any OpenXR-compatible app with one click, simplifying the scaling of AR/VR applications for companies.
- Hololight's ambition is to leverage data-and-cloud-computing, artificial-intelligence, and technology to become a leader in XR pixel streaming, consolidating its position by addressing the limitations of device computing power and offering solutions for enterprise XR deployment, with a vision of eventually penetrating consumer markets.
