LED foreign investment boom continued fermentation

April 12th, Digital Lumens announced its second round of financing of $10 million. Digital Lumens specializes in manufacturing LED lighting equipment can be connected to the wireless network, provide remote control for LED lighting: homeowners can through the network interface to control the lighting system based on light output and energy consumption, and building energy efficiency and other statistical data.

Global high brightness LED market expanded from $2009 in to $10 billion 800 million in 2010. Now, solid-state lighting technology has been widely applied in portable computer and computer monitors, the next step should be to reduce the retail price and improve the performance of the system, so that it can be more used in city lighting and personal home lighting.

Despite the current high cost of using LED lighting, but home retail LED lights from the beginning of last year, more and more people's attention. Last year, Taiwan's SemiLEDs listed in the United states. In addition, Lighting Science Group initial public offering this year, raised $one hundred and fifty million. LED lighting company BridgELux also recently raised $21 million. In addition, Intermatix is also considering listing. Black Coral Capital, Flybridge Capital Partners and Stata Venture Partners these investment companies have entered into this field, in addition, The Boston has raised $25 million of funds.