Agate Sensors raises $6.6M to bring material analysis to consumers

Agate Sensors, a startup developing smart sensors for material analysis, has raised $6.6 million to let consumers figure out the materials in any given object.

The Finnish company aims to commercialize a breakthrough that shrinks spectroscopy from suitcase-sized lab equipment to a single pixel smaller than a grain of sand—integrated into a chip compact enough to sit on your fingertip. Others have done this kind of work before, but Agate Sensors says it has miniaturized the tech the most.