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Funding and backers

Total raised
$8.9M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
$8.9M
Venture round · Jul 2025 · 14 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Grants
$4.6M
4 grants · CORDIS
Backers
1
SICTIC
The money's age
Due for its next round
14 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 1 Won a grant $1.8M · CORDIS Jan 23, 2025 Launched CREAL Unveils its New Light Field Display for Augmented Reality: The Next Generation of AR Coming Today · PRNewswire Jun 1, 2020 Won a grant $290k · CORDIS Apr 1, 2020 Won a grant $2.4M · CORDIS Feb 1, 2019 Won a grant $54k · CORDIS
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Jul 2026 $1.8M — CORDIS
Venture round Jul 2025 $8.9M ZEISS lead creal.com
Grant Jun 2020 $290k — CORDIS
Grant Apr 2020 $2.4M — CORDIS
Grant Feb 2019 $54k — CORDIS
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Overview

CREAL develops a light field display for AR glasses, enabling natural visual comfort with true 3D depth, prescription compatibility, and transparent lenses.

News

Blog 2 months ago
AR Navigation in Surgery: The Key Role of CREAL's Light Field Display
Integrated into XR devices, from glasses to headsets, CREAL's light field display delivers a correct and natural visual experience across all applications.While CREAL's display technology is transformative for most AR use cases, some have more at stake th
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Blog 2 months ago
ZEISS Points to HOE as the Solution for Next-Generation AR Glasses
There is a simple idea at the heart of the HOE (Holographic Optical Element) AR combiner argument that often gets lost in the technical debate: AR glasses are, fundamentally, glasses first.If you hold onto that idea, the question of which optical combiner
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Blog 6 months ago
What's threatening the AR glasses adoption? A display problem story
If you've ever tried a VR headset or a pair of AR glasses, you've likely experienced eye strain, fatigue, and possibly nausea. While these symptoms are often attributed to motion sickness (an issue specific to VR), there is actually a deeper, underlying p
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News Vogue 6 months ago
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Financials

Total raised
$13.5M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
5
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2026 $1.8M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2025 $8.9M Details
Grant 2020 $290k Details
Grant 2020 $2.4M Details
Grant 2019 $54k Details