Headquartered in Glasgow UK, Intense is a leading provider of single and multimode monolithic laser array products and high power laser diodes. The company's patented innovations in Quantum Well Intermixing (QWI) and Asymmetric Waveguides (AW) generate uniquely high power, brightness, and reliability. Combined with state-of-the-art high volume manufacturing facilities in the UK and US, this delivers unsurpassed product quality and value to customers in the print and imaging, defense, industrial, display, and medical markets.

FirstCapital advised FNI Venture Capital (managed by FirstVentures) on a £6.5mn round in October 2005 and then on the £9.9mn acquisition of HPD in July 2007. Investors in the company include 3i, DFJ Esprit, Alice Ventures, TTP Ventures, ACT Venture Capital, ORIX Venture Finance and the Scottish Venture Fund.

www.intenseco.com