Spinout developing hardware needed for quantum computing and the next wave of AI applications Sarah Fell Thu, 07/09/2026 - 12:28 In fact, one of the biggest constraints facing these technologies is something far less visible: the way optics are still made. That’s what Cambridge Enterprise Ventures portfolio company Phaseshift , by leveraging pioneering research in optic materials and their assembly from the University of Cambridge, has set out to change. Co-founder and CTO, Amit Agrawal, Associate Professor of Optical Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a fellow at Trinity College,