History

From a scientific discovery on 2009 during eclipse,
LetinAR is now fundamentally

Changing how humankind sees the world.

History

Technology
Business
2009

Jul 2009

PinMR™ Principle Discovered

2014

May 2014

First Domestic Patent Registration

2016

Oct 2016

Establishment of LetinAR Co., Ltd.

2017

Jun 2017

Seed Investment Completed (800M KRW for Seedm Cumulative 800M KRW)

Nov 2017

Small and Medium Venture Business Minister Award, Challenge K-Startup 2017

2018

Jan 2018

Glass lens with PinMR™ (2rows) unveiled at CES 2018

Jun 2018

Certification for Specialized Material and Component Company

Jul 2018

Recognition as an In-house Research Institute

Aug 2018

Basic Patent Registration for PinMR™

Dec 2018

Series-A Investment Completed (Series-A 6B KRW, cumulative 6.8B KRW)

2019

Jan 2019

Lens with PinMR™(2 rows) collimator-integrated IIC) Unveiled at CES 2019

Feb 2019

Lens with PinMR™(2 rows) collimator-integrated IIC) Unveiled at MWC 2019

Nov 2019

Awarded for the Development of Digital Content Industry (Minister of Science, Technology, and Information Communication)

Nov 2019

Patent Office Commissioner's Award at the Korea Invention Patent Exhibition

2020

Feb 2020

Selected as a Finalist for the GLOMO AWARDS at MWC, One of the World's Top 3 IT Exhibitions

Feb 2020

Selected as a Finalist for the Prestigious SPIE PRISM AWARDS in the Optics Field

Feb 2020

Establishment of a Corporation in the United States

Feb 2020

First Patent Registered in the United States

Apr 2020

Kim Jae-hyuk (CEO) and Ha Jeong-hun (CTO) selected as Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 Leaders

Nov 2020

Series-B Investment Completed (Series-B 8B KRW, cumulative 14.8B KRW)

Dec 2020

Basic Patent Registration for PinTILT™

2021

Mar 2021

Office relocation and establishment of a Fab. (in Dongan-gu, Anyang City, Gyeonggi Province)

Dec 2021

Korea Metaverse Award Grand Prize (Minister of Science, Technology, and Information Communication)

Dec 2021

Awarded Excellent Patent in the Electronic IT category of South Korea

2022

Jan 2022

CES Innovation Award 2022 (T-Glass)

Feb 2022

Achieved excellence in the final assessment of Government R&D project(Ministry of Science and ICT_Bicycle AR)

Mar 2022

First Sales to North America

Apr 2022

First Sales to Europe

Apr 2022

Achieved best in the final assessment of Government R&D project(Ministry of SMEs and Startups_Startup Scale-Up)

Oct 2022

Achieved 50 Patent Registrations

Nov 2022

Patent Office Commissioner's Award at the Korea Invention Patent Exhibition

2023

Jan 2023

CES Innovation Award 2023 (KEPLAR™)

Apr 2023

Series-C Investment Completed (Series-C 18.8B KRW, cumulative 33.6B KRW)

May 2023

Successful Mass Production of B30 PinTILT™ Plastic Lens

Jul 2023

Achieved excellence in the final assessment of Government R&D project (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy_Shared Mobility)

Sep 2023

NET Registration Acquired.

Dec 2023

Minister of Science and Information and Communication Technology Award, the Government R&D Project(Lightweight AR)

Dec 2023

Achieved 80 Patent Registrations

2024

Jan 2024

CES 2024 : PinTILT FrontiAR™ Pro Launching

Jan 2024

PinTILT FrontiAR™ Mass-production

Jan 2024

SPIE PRISM AWARDS 2024 Finalist

Oct 2024

NTT QONOQ MiRZA® Smartglasses Launch

Oct 2024

Minister (of MOTIE) Awards, Photonics Korea 2024

Nov 2024

Presidential Awards, Korea Invention Patent Exhibition 2024

Dec 2024

NEP (New Product) Recognition, Republic of Korea

Dec 2024

Top 100 Excellent National R&D Achievements of 2024, Republic of Korea