Deep Tech + Lighting = QuarkStar

​What is Deep Tech?

Deep technology, or hard tech, is a category of startup companies that develop new products based on scientific discovery and meaningful engineering innovation
​Their express objective is to provide technology solutions based on substantial scientific or engineering challenges. These challenges require lengthy R&D and large capital investment before successful commercialization.
​The underlying scientific or engineering problems generate valuable intellectual property.



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​The time required to move from basic science to applicable technology in deep tech exceeds the development time of startups based on widely available technology (i.e. “shallow tech” such as mobile apps, websites, and e-commerce services).
​The demand for large early-stage funding for R&D and prototype development and the lengthy life cycle of deep tech startups forces them to abandon established funding progressions.

​Why do Deep Tech?

Here's ​some advantages of Deep Tech over Shallow Tech.
Higher Barriers to Entry
Due to the amount of initial resources needed, few players attempt to pursue deep tech as opposed to shallow tech.

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Fewer competitors and Greater Differentiation
By the time deep tech is market-ready, there are usually no serious competitors in the same technology. Conversely, shallow tech must compete with the many other variants and clones that arise due to its comparative ease of development.
Larger Multipliers
Being both new and fundamental, deep tech has broader applications and deeper markets, outstripping returns from shallow tech.
Foundational IP
Inventing a new field and owning the underlying IP offers serious competitive advantage over both early movers & later copycats.
The Ultimate Proving Ground for a New Lighting Technology:

Lighting the galleries of the largest museum project in North America

In the most critically demanding environment for quality of light QuarkStar’s Edge-X technology delivers a functionality never before seen in the lighting world: evenly distributed sheets of light easily spanning 16-ft gallery walls and daylight matching color-tuning from a single row of LEDs, all from a footprint an inch wide.
​Our Intellectual Property
​Learn about our aggressive IP strategy with 500+ patents filed and 250+ patents granted.

Explore more about our company.

Our deep insights lead to an entirely new technology framework that more fully realizes the LED’s economic advantages and technological potential.
Our Technologies
QuarkStar has developed an expanding suite of lighting and control technologies that opens the door for new innovative ideas in the world of lighting. ​
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Edge-X Tech Overview
QuarkStar's award-winning Edge-X technology family is a modular scalable technology capable of sculpting light in space like nothing seen before.
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