Metalenz is a fabless semiconductor optics company in Boston, Massachusetts that commercialises meta-optics — flat metasurface lenses that replace stacks of curved refractive elements with a single planar chip patterned by nanostructures and mass produced in a standard semiconductor foundry. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Rob Devlin and Harvard professor Federico Capasso out of the Capasso Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and holds the exclusive worldwide licence to that lab's metasurface intellectual property, now more than 150 issued and pending patents. Its first-generation metasurfaces reached mass production in 2022 through a manufacturing partnership with STMicroelectronics and have since shipped in well over 100 million consumer devices. The current product line is built on the PolarEyes polarization imaging platform: Polar ID, a single-camera polarization face authentication system for smartphones that works under the display and uses the Samsung ISOCELL Vizion 931 sensor and Qualcomm Snapdragon imaging stack; Polar 3D, on-device relightable selfies and avatars from one image; and the Orion and Gemini dot-pattern projectors for structured-light 3D sensing. Metalenz sells optical components, licences and full-stack biometric solutions to device makers and foundries — UMC and STMicroelectronics are named manufacturing partners — and is backed by Neotribe Ventures, Intel Capital, TDK Ventures, 3M, Applied Ventures, M Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and Foothill Ventures. It sells silicon and IP, not software: it publishes no developer program, no developer portal, no SDK and no API documentation of any kind. The only machine-readable interface it exposes to the public is the WordPress REST content API behind metalenz.com, which is anonymously readable, read-only without credentials, and captured here for discovery purposes.
Metalenz publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Press Releases API, Pages API, Media API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Company, Semiconductors, Optics, Meta-Optics, and Metasurface.
Metalenz’s developer surface includes product news, support, authentication, code examples, and 30 more developer resources.
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Public, unauthenticated read access to the Metalenz newsroom via the WordPress core REST API. The `post` content type on metalenz.com is registered with the label "Press Release...
Public, unauthenticated read access to the static page tree behind metalenz.com — the Polar ID, Polar 3D, PolarEyes, Orion and Gemini product pages, the meta-optics and foundati...
Public, unauthenticated read access to the media library behind metalenz.com — Polar ID and Polar 3D product imagery, metasurface and meta-optics diagrams, conference and event ...
Public, unauthenticated read access to the classification layer over the Metalenz newsroom — the `category` taxonomy and the `post_tag` taxonomy, with their term records, counts...
Public, unauthenticated cross-content search over metalenz.com — press releases and static pages together — returning lightweight id / title / url / type / subtype records that ...
The self-describing surface of the metalenz.com WordPress REST API — the route index, the per-namespace indexes, the registered content types and taxonomies, the publication sta...
Public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for metalenz.com URLs, returning embeddable rich metadata — title, author, provider, thumbnail and iframe HTML — for any published post or pa...
aid: metalenz
name: Metalenz
description: 'Metalenz is a fabless semiconductor optics company in Boston, Massachusetts that commercialises meta-optics
— flat metasurface lenses that replace stacks of curved refractive elements with a single planar chip patterned by nanostructures
and mass produced in a standard semiconductor foundry. The company was founded in 2016 by CEO Rob Devlin and Harvard professor
Federico Capasso out of the Capasso Lab at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and holds
the exclusive worldwide licence to that lab''s metasurface intellectual property, now more than 150 issued and pending patents.
Its first-generation metasurfaces reached mass production in 2022 through a manufacturing partnership with STMicroelectronics
and have since shipped in well over 100 million consumer devices. The current product line is built on the PolarEyes polarization
imaging platform: Polar ID, a single-camera polarization face authentication system for smartphones that works under the
display and uses the Samsung ISOCELL Vizion 931 sensor and Qualcomm Snapdragon imaging stack; Polar 3D, on-device relightable
selfies and avatars from one image; and the Orion and Gemini dot-pattern projectors for structured-light 3D sensing. Metalenz
sells optical components, licences and full-stack biometric solutions to device makers and foundries — UMC and STMicroelectronics
are named manufacturing partners — and is backed by Neotribe Ventures, Intel Capital, TDK Ventures, 3M, Applied Ventures,
M Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and Foothill Ventures. It sells silicon and IP, not software: it publishes no developer
program, no developer portal, no SDK and no API documentation of any kind. The only machine-readable interface it exposes
to the public is the WordPress REST content API behind metalenz.com, which is anonymously readable, read-only without credentials,
and captured here for discovery purposes.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/metalenz/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Optics
- Meta-Optics
- Metasurface
- Photonics
- Biometrics
- Face Authentication
- Polarization Imaging
- 3D Sensing
- Computer-Vision
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apis:
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-press-releases-api
name: Metalenz Press Releases API
description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the Metalenz newsroom via the WordPress core REST API. The `post` content
type on metalenz.com is registered with the label "Press Releases" and carries the company's press releases, product launches,
funding announcements and award notices back to the February 2021 launch out of stealth. Verified live at 26 published
items.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/press-releases/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
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- Newsroom
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-press-releases-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-press-releases-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/metalenz-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-pages-api
name: Metalenz Pages API
description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the static page tree behind metalenz.com — the Polar ID, Polar 3D, PolarEyes,
Orion and Gemini product pages, the meta-optics and foundational technology explainers, the consumer-electronics, automotive
and robotics market pages, About Us, Leadership, Careers, Events, Video Gallery and the Terms and Conditions of Sale.
Verified live at 29 published pages.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- Pages
- Content
- Product
tags_raw:
- Pages
- Content
- Products
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-pages-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-pages-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/metalenz-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-media-api
name: Metalenz Media API
description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the media library behind metalenz.com — Polar ID and Polar 3D product
imagery, metasurface and meta-optics diagrams, conference and event photography, leadership headshots, brand and sub-brand
logos and press assets, each with its generated size variants. Verified live at 418 attachments.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/media-coverage/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- Media
- Press Assets
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-media-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-media-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/metalenz-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-taxonomy-api
name: Metalenz Taxonomy API
description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the classification layer over the Metalenz newsroom — the `category`
taxonomy and the `post_tag` taxonomy, with their term records, counts and archive links. Verified live at 1 category and
2 tags (`polar-3d`, `new-products`).
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/press-releases/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- Taxonomy
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-taxonomy-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/metalenz-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-search-api
name: Metalenz Search API
description: Public, unauthenticated cross-content search over metalenz.com — press releases and static pages together —
returning lightweight id / title / url / type / subtype records that link back to the full object. Verified live returning
34 matching objects for the capture probe term.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- Search
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-search-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-search-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-discovery-api
name: Metalenz Discovery API
description: The self-describing surface of the metalenz.com WordPress REST API — the route index, the per-namespace indexes,
the registered content types and taxonomies, the publication statuses, the public author records and the comment surface.
This is what makes the rest of the API machine-readable in the absence of any published documentation. Verified live at
212 routes across 13 namespaces.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json/
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- Discovery
- Metadata
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-discovery-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-discovery-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- aid: metalenz:metalenz-oembed-api
name: Metalenz oEmbed API
description: Public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for metalenz.com URLs, returning embeddable rich metadata — title, author,
provider, thumbnail and iframe HTML — for any published post or page. The endpoint is advertised as a discoverable oEmbed
provider link in the head of every metalenz.com page and answers anonymously in both JSON and XML.
humanURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmetalenz.com%2F
baseURL: https://metalenz.com/wp-json
tags:
- oEmbed
- Embeds
- Content
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/metalenz-oembed-api-openapi.yml
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/metalenz-oembed-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/metalenz-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/metalenz-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/metalenz-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
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name: Metalenz Business Capability Map
- type: Website
url: https://metalenz.com/
- type: About
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- type: Leadership
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- type: ErrorCatalog
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- type: Conventions
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- type: DataModel
url: data-model/metalenz-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/metalenz-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/metalenz-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/metalenz-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/metalenz-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Examples
url: examples/metalenz-examples.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
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- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
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- type: ToolCrosswalk
url: mcp/metalenz-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/metalenz-packages.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/metalenz-domain-security.yml
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