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Bridgelux expands its product offering to include upgraded Vero^® Series and V Series^™ family of products with improved efficacy and simultaneously, Bridgelux launches H Series^™, an ultra-high lumen density COB product line.

LIVERMORE, California, March 13, 2016 — Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies, will debut several new products at this year’s Light + Building in Germany, including its seventh generation of Vero and V Series products now featuring nominal efficacy ranging from 155 to 180 lumens per watt warm white efficacy; H Series, the Company’s first ultra-high lumen density chip-on-board product line, and Xenio™ Point, the industry’s most versatile smart LED module.

Since its initial launch of LED array products, Bridgelux has seen tremendous adoption of its technology, shipping 48 million units into over 50 countries. The Vero Series arrays were the industry’s first chip-on-board products with solder-free connectivity and leading performance to help streamline luminaire production processes and reduce cost. Now with new efficacy advancements, Vero LED arrays will continue to be offered with the industry’s only ten-year limited warranty. Leveraging the Vero platform, the upgraded V Series family will feature Zhaga compatible mounting holes and a five-year limited warranty.

Also new to the Company’s portfolio is H Series, a family of ultra-high lumen density COB products. Designed to replace traditional ceramic metal halide bulbs, H Series arrays feature high center beam candlepower at higher efficacy and twice the lifetime. The product’s exceptional color quality and market leading flux density make it perfect for high intensity and directional spotlights in retail and commercial applications. H Series arrays are available in 80, 90, and 95 CRI color points, and Bridgelux’s ultra-high CRI and GAI offering Décor Series™ Class A.

“We continue to delight our customers with high-quality, competitive products and technologies. Bridgelux is focused on the development of market leading light source solutions as evidenced by this diverse range of new products,” said Aaron Merrill, VP of Product Marketing. “We understand that the LED space is rapidly evolving and Bridgelux continues to be innovative, while maintaining premium quality standards, is critical, and something Bridgelux is succeeding at today.”

H Series arrays and Xenio Point are currently in production and commercially available. Next generation Vero and V Series arrays will ship in June. For more information, come and see us in hall 6.2, booth C20 at Light+Building 2016!

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 140 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, Vero, and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks of Bridgelux, Inc. Xenio are registered trademarks of Xenio Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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The Basilica's new light installation will highlight the beautiful frescoes and paintings within the building while providing the safest illumination.

LIVERMORE, CA -- OCT 20, 2015 -- Bridgelux, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance, solid-state LED arrays, announced the selection of Bridgelux® Décor Series™ LED arrays for a new lighting installation at the Lower Basilica of San Francesco of Assisi in Italy, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Founded in 1228, the Basilica is decorated with frescoes painted by medieval artists, illustrating the unique development of Italian art. The new lighting system will highlight the unique quality of the stunning frescoes, while providing safe illumination over the delicate paint and colors.

"Light is a powerful medium that can lift one’s heart, mind and spirit,” reflected Aaron Merrill, vice president of marketing for Bridgelux.  “It is inspiring to see modern lighting design expertise and leading edge LED technology come together to beautify, preserve and pay tribute to the ‘good works’ of artisans of old who sought to glorify the Church. Bridgelux is honored to have been selected for the project, providing some of the highest color rendering light source technology in the world to help illuminate these awe inspiring works of art displayed in such a historically significant and sacred place of worship." 

Over 550 Bridgelux Décor Series Ultra LED arrays were chosen for the lower Basilica because of their state-of-the-art color rending with a high CRI of 97, which emphasizes the reds and other radiant color tones to which the human eye is most receptive. In addition to the Basilica’s updated look, the new solid state lighting (SSL) system will consume 80 percent less energy, generate 70 percent less heat, and last 20 times longer than previously installed halogen light sources.

The Sacro Convento of San Francesco d’Assisi approached Italian Lighting Designer and Professor at University of Roma Tre, Marco Frascarolo, for a lighting solution that offered the latest innovative illumination and environmental impact solution, while preserving the medieval feel. “We are very satisfied with Bridgelux SSL technology. It has resulted in a perfect illumination and a great energy saving,“ shared Mauro Gambetti and Sergio Fusetti, respectively Padre Custode and Conservatore of The Basilica.

Marco Frascarolo designed the new lighting system and is very familiar with projects of this magnitude. As the lighting designer for the new Sistine Chapel lighting system and author of the new guidelines for the Colosseum lighting system, Frascarolo notes, “Key elements of the project meant controlling the best technology in an environment addressing luminous fluxes, giving value to architecture and frescoes, minimizing glare, maximizing energy consumption, and creating the perfect atmosphere for each different moment of the Basilica's life.”

ILM Lighting manufactured customized fixtures for the project. Federico Ognibene, CEO of ILM, commented that “it was a great challenge to build and design fixtures, maintaining dimensions and shapes of the previous lighting installation with the complexity of the new technologies. Thanks to our experience, and the combined use of Bridgelux Décor arrays, and of customized LEDIL lenses with oval light distribution, we built the first worldwide fixture with elliptical optics for arrays, achieving the project goals.”

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of solid-state lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 145 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks, and Décor Series is a trademark, of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Xenio to Bring Innovative Smart-Lighting Platforms to Worldwide Markets Faster

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 21, 2015 – Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved a plan to spin off its Smart Lighting LED platform business under the name of Xenio Corporation in conjunction with the sale of Bridgelux to an investment group led by the China Electronics Company (CEC). 

Xenio will focus on the development of software-enabled LED modules for the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) market, benefitting from partnerships and investments from Bridgelux, Toshiba, DCM Ventures, VantagePoint Capital Partners, and other ecosystem partners.

The new company, which will have independent, dedicated engineering and go-to-market teams located in San Francisco, will be overseen by Brad Bullington, as Executive Chairman. Mr. Bullington, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Bridgelux, will leverage the leadership talent of Bridgelux while seeking additional expertise from the IoT and building management industries.

Having incubated a number of core technology assets and IP over the past two years inside of Bridgelux, Xenio will have a running start at addressing the $135B IoT opportunity in lighting. Most recently, the company announced the launch of its Xenio™ Point, Xenio Link, and Xenio Power solutions at Lightfair International in New York. The products will ship in volume later this year.

“Establishing Xenio as a stand-alone company is a significant acknowledgment of the unique capabilities required to serve a new set of connected lighting and data infrastructure platforms which we believe will unlock the potential of solid state lighting technology” stated Brad Bullington, Executive Chairman at Xenio. “We are creating a new company that has a strong LED-heritage and all of the requisite tools to grow its business. At the same time, this transaction allows us to immediately focus on addressing the rapidly growing opportunity in IoT and connected devices.”

Xenio’s mission will be to develop and deliver networked and software-driven solutions that bring intelligence to lighting fixtures, providing a powerful platform to deliver IoT services in the rapidly growing smart building space. Critical to this effort will be Xenio’s seamless integration of LED light source technology with advanced power, radio, sensor, application and cloud software into a low-cost, easy-to-install network.

These technologies will combine to enable high-quality lighting experiences such as deep dimming and color tuning while deploying the sensor network to reduce energy consumption, and drive real-time engagement with occupants or even goods inside a building. In a store, the Xenio network can draw attention to a displayed product by brightening a spotlight as shoppers walk down an aisle. Similarly, lighting can dim in employee cubicles when they are away or adjust in response to changes in natural lighting. It can also change color to create a more comfortable and productive environment.

“With a focus on providing a complete, intelligent technology solution for lighting and systems manufacturers, we believe we can deliver a revolutionary smart-lighting platform that will further enable the Internet of Things,” continued Bullington.

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 145 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux and the Bridgelux stylized logo design are registered trademarks, and Xenio is a trademark, of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Bridgelux leads transition to next-generation SSL supply chain through acquisition with CEC; Combines Bridgelux industry-leading technology with CEC scale manufacturing and global reach

 

LIVERMORE, CA – JULY 21, 2015 – Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of solid state lighting (SSL) technologies, today announced it has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investment group led by the China Electronics Corporation (CEC), and ChongQing Linkong Development Investment Company. Established in 1989, CEC controls 61 second-level subsidiaries, including 13 listed holding companies. With over 70,000 employees, CEC is one of the largest IT companies in China, with manufacturing facilities in Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Changsha, and Xiamen. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"The advances Bridgelux has made over the last 13 years have been instrumental in driving the adoption of energy efficient LED technologies worldwide. Bridgelux has all of the characteristics we look for in an investment, including leading technology, a broad IP portfolio and a globally recognizable brand and channel,” stated Mr. Liu, CEO of CEC.  “This investment is an important step toward further aligning CEC and partner assets into a coordinated supply chain built to serve the unique requirements of the solid state lighting market.”

With its existing investments in lighting fixture and lamp manufacturing as well as other IT and consumer electronics technologies, CEC’s captive businesses is expected offer substantial scale and growth for Bridgelux. Additionally, CEC and its affiliates have built technology development and manufacturing operations across the LED supply chain. Alignment with these partners will give Bridgelux a durable, long-term cost advantage, complimenting its existing technology leadership, and will further allow Bridgelux to focus on segment and application level innovations to better serve its customers.

“We are convinced that CEC is the perfect partner to help Bridgelux achieve its next level of growth. Leveraging the momentum of our existing partnerships with CEC affiliates, complimented by a strong supply chain, world-class manufacturing, and chip, packaging and go-to-market capabilities, CEC will help Bridgelux expand its technology footprint and reach more customers globally.” stated Brad Bullington, CEO of Bridgelux.

Following the acquisition, Bridgelux will continue to operate as a standalone company, reporting into CEC through a US subsidiary. Additionally, Bridgelux will spin off its smart lighting business as a new standalone company, Xenio Corporation.  Bridgelux and Xenio will be led by the current Bridgelux management team. Xenio will focus on LED module design and manufacturing to address the emerging $135B lighting opportunity in the Internet of Things (IoT) market. The Xenio team most recently made news with the launch of its Xenio Point, Xenio Link, and Xenio Power products at the Lightfair International Exhibition in New York. Long term, Xenio will benefit from close technology and distribution relationships with Bridgelux as well as CEC and Toshiba.

Bridgelux and CEC expect the acquisition to close within the next six to eight weeks, subject to customary regulatory approvals. After the close, Bridgelux will continue to serve its customers on a standalone basis by continuing forward with its existing products and next-generation roadmap. Over time, Bridgelux expects to see the benefits of its enhanced relationship with the CEC supply chain through an expansion of its product portfolio and a greater ability to serve its lighting customers with an expanded range of new technologies.

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 145 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, and Xenio are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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SAN FRANCISCO, May 5, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Avi-on Labs and Bridgelux Inc. today announced a technology partnership to introduce a new standard in CSR Bluetooth based smart lighting products for the commercial market.

"We are proud to partner with the Bridgelux. We love the light quality and controllability of their engines," said Eric Miller, CEO of Avi-on. "Bridgelux's smart lighting products complement the Powered by Avi-on platform, and together make commercial smart lighting easy and inexpensive to deploy, use, and maintain, while scalable and secure." 

This is among the first of Bridgelux's smart lighting offerings on its recently announced Xenio™ platform, a family of smart, networkable LED arrays for the commercial, retail and industrial spaces. As a true open platform, the product is compatible with a broad variety of standards, protocols and other technologies to ensure ease of integration, greater value and future functionality.

Products will be available in three array sizes and feature tightly integrated controls, local intelligence and communication capabilities, smooth dimming, superior lighting quality and high efficacy available at 120 lumens per watt.

"We are thrilled to be partnering with Avi-on," said David Connors, VP of Marketing and Embedded Systems of Bridgelux. "As partners, we are creating an intelligent, networked light engine that provides ease of integration, performance, light quality and value that fits the needs of luminaire manufacturers and their end customers. We know that our customers seek simplicity and choice in control specifications, and Avi-on's Bluetooth Smart™ mesh platform brings a great technology to lighting controls."

The Powered by Avi-on™ platform offers a universal, turnkey app-cloud-module software solution that enables manufacturers to bring entire lines of products to market in less than six months. The platform includes plug and play firmware, iOS and Android mobile applications, a scalable and complete cloud service and a pre-certified radio module based on CSRmesh™. Powered by Avi-on offers secure network creation, real-time dimming, grouping, one-touch setup, schedules, multi-user support and cloud services.

Samples of Bridgelux's smart lighting product will be available in August 2015, with mass production beginning in January 2016.

On May 5 to 7, Avi-on will feature Powered by Avi-on at LightFair International in booth #3126 at LFI. Bridgelux will also showcase its newest line of smart lighting products at Light Fair International in booth #2847 in New York City. For inquiries on the show contactStacey Duncan at  staceyduncan@bridgelux.com or Dana Kunz at dana@avi-on.com.

About Avi-on

Avi-on Labs offers a turnkey lighting and controls platform that enables manufacturers to bring products to market in less than six months. The Powered by Avi-on™ app-cloud-firmware-module and support solution is the proven CSRmesh™ and Bluetooth Smart™ mesh lighting solution for global markets. Avi-on partners with Bridgelux to bring smart lighting to commercial markets. On the residential side, GE branded products produced by Jasco will be on Tier 1 retailer shelves this summer. For more information, visit www.avi-on.com/

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 100 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux Xenio™solution brings together Bridgelux’s hardware and Harvard’s EyeNut technology to deliver individual control with individual modules, wirelessly—a benefit featured by no other smart lighting product on the market.

LIVERMORE, Calif., May 05, 2015 – Bridgelux, a leading developer and manufacturer of LED lighting technologies, debuted the first of its integrated smart module suite of products today at the 2015 Light Fair International Conference in New York. Bridgelux’s Xenio product is compatible with a greater variety of standards, protocols and other technologies to ensure ease of integration, greater value and future functionality. With the launch of its first smart lighting product, Bridgelux is leading the industry’s evolution to integrated, smart light sources and enabling its customers to provide networkable LED arrays for the commercial, retail and industrial spaces.

The Xenio smart platform features tightly integrated controls, local intelligence and communications capabilities, and smooth dimming down to 0.1 percent of light output. In addition, the product delivers superior light quality and the highest efficacy integrated module now available on the market. Bridgelux worked with key technology partners and customers to include compelling features in this new platform to meet the demands of ease of integration, performance, light quality and value required by luminaire manufacturers and their end customers.

“Bridgelux is rethinking what it means to be innovative in the lighting industry,” said Brad Bullington, CEO of Bridgleux. “For our customers to succeed in a connected, data-driven future, we’re introducing new technologies that are integrated, efficient and compatible, that will position smart lighting arrays as the infrastructure to further enable the Internet of Things. This first generation product sets the tone for how Bridgelux is innovating through hardware and software to deliver compelling value propositions."

A truly open platform, the Xenio smart lighting array is designed to be compatible with multiple communication protocols including Bluetooth® Smart, Zigbee®, DMX 512, DALI® and common controls standards including 0-10V. The product has also been architected to enable advanced software, offering integration with Avi-on’s Bluetooth based system as well as Harvard Engineering’s EyeNut platform. These systems offer users the freedom to commission, configure and readily control their own lighting to optimize energy savings and the lighting experience.

“The Xenio platform brings together Bridgelux’s technology with Harvard’s EyeNut to enable point control with individual modules, wirelessly—a benefit that no other smart lighting product on the market can currently claim,” said Antony Corrie, Vice President of Harvard Americas. “By integrating Harvard’s technology with Xenio, the EyeNut solution can be used across a wide range of industry and commercial applications, driving unique value for each.”

Available in three array sizes, the smart lighting array self-monitors its real-time health and temperature and stores historical operating data in order to optimize performance and value with status reporting that is DMX 512/RDM capable.

The product is powered by the emerging 48 VDC standard, increasingly popular for its high efficiency while still being regulated as low voltage.  This forward looking standard offers multiple options for powering light fixtures. The Xenio solution features multiple options for 48 VDC power supplies including fixture integrated constant voltage power supplies, a room level power hub with Class 2 cabling that uses low voltage to power eight to 10 fixtures and a Power over Ethernet (PoE) data switch.

The product’s open, integrated platform is architected to help future-proof luminaire designs for easy, cost effective upgrades to future Bridgelux smart lighting products featuring, for example, innovative tunable white capabilities, sensor technology or other data-focused innovations. Samples of the product will be available in September 2015, with production availability beginning January 2016 in the U.S. and Europe. To experience the innovations of the Bridgelux smart lighting array, please visit booth 2847 at Lightfair International. For more information about Bridgelux products, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

About Bridgelux

Bridgelux is a leading developer and manufacturer of lighting technologies and solutions that invites companies, industries and people to experience the power, possibility and financial potential of LED lighting. Headquartered in Livermore, California, Bridgelux employs more than 160 employees with global sales and services within international markets. Born of world-class engineering and informed by human intuition, the company's LED arrays and chips replace traditional lighting technologies with integrated, solid-state lighting solutions that make it possible for its customers to provide high performance, human-centric influenced light for the commercial, industrial and outdoor markets. For more information about the company, please visit www.bridgelux.com.

Bridgelux, the Bridgelux stylized logo design, and Xenio are registered trademarks of Bridgelux Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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Sunnyvale, California, USA – April 4, 2006 – eLite Optoelectronics,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy saving, power-LED chips to high-volume
solid state lighting market segments, today announced that it has
raised $8.5 million in venture capital financing from DCM –
Doll Capital Management, El Dorado Ventures, and Harris & Harris
Group and changed its name to Bridgelux, Inc. The funding will be
used for continued capital investments and as well as intensified
research and development at the company’s new headquarters and
R&D facility in California’s Silicon Valley.

The Bridgelux name stems from the company’s “fabless"
business model, which is common in the silicon world, but remains
unique in the high brightness LED industry. While the company’s
corporate and R&D operations are located in the U.S., the company
manufactures its products in Asia.

Dr. Robert Walker, Bridgelux CEO, explains, “Bridgelux is leveraging
the best of U.S. technology and Asian manufacturing efficiencies,
effectively ‘bridging a gap’ that has hampered many companies
in their pursuit of leading-edge technology that can be affordably
deployed now, not some years down the road.” He further notes,
“Our mission is to enable the global acceleration and acceptance
of energy saving solid state lighting (SSL) by providing our customers
with advanced product performance while simultaneously achieving aggressive
cost reduction.”

Bridgelux investors and Board of Directors , Pete Moran, general partner
of DCM – Doll Capital Management and Scott Irwin, general partner
of El Dorado Ventures, have emerged within the venture capital community
as key backers of the promise of SSL technologies such as InGaN blue
spectrum LEDs.

“Far more energy-efficient than incandescent and fluorescent
lights, LED chips are poised to become a major source of lighting
in commercial and residential environments, and Bridgelux is at the
forefront of this global movement,” said DCM’s Mr. Moran.
“Bridgelux’s high-brightness LED innovations and efficient
manufacturing capabilities make it one of the most compelling players
in the SSL space.”

"We were initially attracted to Bridgelux by the company’s outstanding
technical team, which has already delivered a number of industry firsts,"
said El Dorado’s Mr. Irwin. He added, "We’re very excited
about the opportunities for Bridgelux in the SSL market, where we
foresee major growth for years to come."

Bridgelux has developed technology to fulfill an emerging market demand
for large area (~1mm square) power-LED chips that exhibit high light
output (~40 lumens) while consuming only 1 watt of power. Current
applications include retail displays, personal reading lights, flashlights/torches,
flat panel televisions and displays, emergency vehicle warning lights,
and architectural lighting. Dr. Walker added, “Bridgelux is
well on the way to becoming a de facto supplier for some of the highest
brightness applications.

Bridgelux chips are commonly found in your cell phone or camera flash
and in many of the types of lighting products in your home, office,
or neighborhood.”

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003 as eLite Optoelectronics, Inc., Bridgelux is a leading
supplier of energy saving power-LED chips to high-volume market segments.
The company developed and introduced the industry’s first high
volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power
light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions
of chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux
power-LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid
state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source
of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found
in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting
applications.

Contact Tom Jory, VP of Marketing, at 408-329-5304, website: www.Bridgelux.com

Sunnyvale, California, USA – August 14, 2006 – Bridgelux,
Inc. (formerly eLite Optoelectronics), a leading supplier of energy
saving, power-LED chips, today announced the addition of key personnel
to its management team.  Dr. Dave Bour, named an Agilent Fellow
in 2000, is joining as Chief Scientist at Bridgelux; Dr. Ghulam
Hasnain joins as a Senior Scientist; and Gloria Fan, previously
with UTStarcom, joins the organization as Chief Financial Officer.

Most recently serving with Applied Materials’ new business
development group, Dr. Bour was part of Agilent Laboratories in
Palo Alto, where his high level of scientific contributions earned
him the honor of Agilent Fellow and Fellow of the IEEE in 2000.
Dr. Bour received a B.S. degree in Physics from MIT in 1983, and
a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University
in 1987. He has published more than 200 articles and been granted
60 U.S. patents. Dr. Ghulam Hasnain, formerly VP of Advanced Technology
with LuxNet, brings over 20 years of experience in optoelectronics
and holds several patents.

Bour and Hasnain join an all-star R&D team which includes
Dr. Jeff Ramer, who significantly contributed to the development
of Emcore/Veeco’s E300 scale GaN MOCVD reactor, and Dr. Steve
Lester, who developed some of the world’s first high power
InGaN LED chips while with Agilent and Hewlett Packard. The R&D
team is headed by Dr. Heng Liu, Bridgelux founder and CTO.

Gloria Fan will oversee the company’s worldwide financial,
legal and HR structure and brings over 15 years of experience in
finance and operations for high technology companies. At UTStarcom,
initially as VP of Finance and most recently as VP of Global Business
Operations, Ms. Fan oversaw the company’s IPO. The company
was named one of Business Weeks’ 100 hot growth companies
in 2002.  Ms Fan has also held senior finance positions at
P-Com. Ms. Fan holds an M.S. from Purdue University and an MBA
from San Jose State University.

“Bridgelux is rapidly developing a track record of innovation
in a high-value, high-growth industry, which enables us to attract
top talent,” cites Bridgelux President and CEO Dr. Robert
Walker. “Ms. Fan brings us financial maturity that is critical
for a company serious about its global operations. Dr. Bour is
not only respected throughout the industry, but he has his own
track record of development in a competitive, patent-heavy market.
It’s one thing to invent, it’s something entirely different
to invent properly and provide customers with IP-protected solutions.”Bridgelux
is a founding member of IPSLA, the IP Secure Lighting Association,
which places a strong emphasis upon diligently respecting other
companies’ intellectual property and driving industry innovation
in combination with “IP secure” solutions.

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003 as eLite Optoelectronics, Inc., Bridgelux is a
leading supplier of energy saving power-LED chips to high-volume
market segments. The company developed and introduced the industry’s
first high volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium
Nitride) power light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently
delivering millions of chips every month to customers worldwide.  Customers
use Bridgelux power-LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies
with solid state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient
source of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently
found in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general
lighting applications. For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com

Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan +1 (408) 329-5300

Gloriafan@Bridgelux.com

Sunnyvale, California, USA – July 1, 2007 – Bridgelux, Inc., a leading supplier of energy saving LED chips to high-volume solid state lighting markets, today announced that LED industry veteran Mark Swoboda has joined Bridgelux as its new Chief Executive Officer. Swoboda brings with him 24 years of semiconductor sales, marketing and senior management experience, with the last 8 years focused in the LED market.

Dr. Robert C. Walker, who served as CEO since July of 2005, will continue on the Board, and as a member of the senior management team, leading strategic business development initiatives for the company. “Mark brings with him an incredible portfolio of development, market and branding experience that will be key to positioning the company for its next phase of growth,” said Dr. Walker. “With lighting-class LED products having reached volume production, Mark’s vision will enable Bridgelux to brand itself as a key supplier to companies pursuing some of the most exciting emerging markets.”

Mr. Swoboda most recently served as Executive Vice President of Philips Lumileds Lighting Company, where he led the sales, marketing, applications, and custom product development teams. During his tenure at Lumileds, the company pioneered the power LED product class and established a strong brand recognition strategy which proved key to developing high growth markets and applications in solid state lighting including general lighting, mobile phone camera flash, LED backlighting, and automotive forward lighting. Prior to joining Philips Lumileds, Mr. Swoboda spent 17 years with the Hewlett-Packard Semiconductor Products Group in various sales, marketing, and channel management positions.

“Bridgelux has assembled one of the strongest research and development teams in the industry, and has shown great results with its technology,” commented Swoboda. “It’s an exciting prospect to lead a team of this caliber into a market that is so ripe for explosive growth and at the same time is simply important for the world..” LED-based solid state lighting offers the promise of greatly reduced energy consumption along with enhancing the quality of life worldwide by delivering better light, often where no light was available before. “Bridgelux is a company that can make a difference and I’m proud to be part of that effort,” concluded Swoboda.

About Bridgelux, Inc. Founded in 2003, Bridgelux is a leading supplier of cost-effective, energy saving LED chips to high-volume market segments. The company developed and introduced the industry’s first high volume ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power light emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions of chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid state products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source of blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting applications.

For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan, +1 408.329.5300 (GloriaFan@Bridgelux.Com)

Sunnyvale, California, USA – August 6, 2007 – Bridgelux,
Inc., a leading supplier of energy-saving LED technology to high-volume
solid state lighting markets, today announced that it has completed
a $23M round of series C venture capital financing led by new investor
Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital. VantagePoint Venture Partners
also joined as a new investor, while DCM, El Dorado Ventures and
Harris & Harris Group participated with follow-on investments.
The funding will be used for product line and market expansion,
as well as intensified technology research and development at the
company’s headquarters in California’s Silicon Valley.

“With its current line of power LED chips, Bridgelux has demonstrated
its ability to bring innovative elements into the overall solid
state lighting solution set,” commented Bridgelux CEO, Mark
Swoboda. “This round of financing will really enable an acceleration
of the company into specifically targeted applications that result
in true partnerships rather than the more typical commodity-supplier
type relationships.” Bridgelux power LED chips have been used
by a substantial number of LED packagers and integrators as the
basis for their energy-savings light sources in backlighting, displays,
camera flashes and various niche lighting applications.

According to Greg Sullivan, managing director at lead investor Chrysalix
Energy Venture Capital, “Chrysalix invests in compelling technologies
and entrepreneurial management teams that are driving fundamental
technology changes into the global energy industry. Bridgelux fits
right in with that model as a company that can bring any number
of key elements into the solution set. We believe their approach
is one that will enable solid state lighting to more quickly reach
its full potential for energy savings and sustainability.”
Mr. Sullivan will be joining Bridgelux’ board of directors.

LED-based lighting technologies offer numerous advantages over current
fluorescent and incandescent solutions in a number of areas, including
reliability and light quality along with increases in both packaging
and energy efficiency. LEDs have quickly captured dominant shares
of the mobile appliance backlighting and camera flash markets, and
are rapidly appearing in small and mid-sized as well as large area
displays. While not yet widely available for consumer lighting needs,
the current generation of environment-friendly solid state lighting
technologies offers efficiencies that greatly exceed those of incandescent
lighting products, and have recently begun to rival many fluorescent
solutions in industrial and commercial applications.

Bridgelux CEO Swoboda concluded, “Any time the available resources,
technology portfolio and market potential align with an application-oriented
focus you can count on a whole new dynamic coming into play. Expect
to see Bridgelux demonstrating an accelerated pace of innovation
that yields new solutions that truly meet the market at its needs.”

About Bridgelux, Inc.

Founded in 2003, Bridgelux is a leading supplier of cost-effective,
energy saving LED chips to high-volume market segments. The company
developed and introduced the industry’s first high volume
ITO/InGaN (Indium Tin Oxide / Indium Gallium Nitride) power light
emitting diode (LED) chip and is currently delivering millions of
chips every month to customers worldwide. Customers use Bridgelux
LED chips to replace traditional bulb technologies with solid state
products that provide a powerful and energy-efficient source of
blue, green, or white light. Bridgelux chips are currently found
in mobile appliances, signage, automotive, and various general lighting
applications.

For more information visit http://www.Bridgelux.com

Contact at Bridgelux:

Gloria Fan, +1 408.329.5300 (GloriaFan@Bridgelux.Com)