
The Management Team
Who We Are

Walid Atia
Founder & CTO
Leading designer of tunable laser systems
Grant Houston
Founder & CEO
Execution focused CEO with over 30 years of experience in photonics and patent law


Dale Flanders
Founder & Chairman
Serial entrepreneur and technology domain expert
About KineoLabs
KineoLabs Inc. was founded in 2021to bring to market revolutionary new optical technologies based on the game-changing, low-cost free-space swept-source cat’s-eye laser invented by the team. The two business areas targeted by the company are optical coherence tomography for medical and industrial imaging and fast, high-sensitivity spectrometry for various industrial and R&D applications. The founding team has extensive experience in the swept laser source business and its application space. The company is located in Lexington, MA where it develops and manufactures its products.