Published: September 2, 2026 at 5:53 pm
Edinburgh firm pureLiFi has crashed into administration with all of its 42 staff made redundant.
The company was behind the development of a light-based alternative to WiFi. It had raised £35 million in funding.
The firm was founded in 2012 by Prof. Harald Haas and Dr Mostafa Afgani as a spin-out of the University of Edinburgh and used the light spectrum to send data rather than radio frequencies.
By making small adjustments in the intensity of light, it claimed to deliver an internet connection with a bandwidth far beyond the capabilities of conventional wireless communications.
With data traffic increasing exponentially every year and causing a ‘spectrum crunch’ headache, the potential for easing the burden on existing technologies is massive, then-CEO Alistair Banham told BusinessCloud in 2020. He retired last year.