Vanguard Photonics GmbH is a high-tech spin-off company, offering services and technologies in the area of large-scale photonic integration. The company was founded in 2016 as a spin-off from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), one of Europe’s largest higher education and research organizations in the area of engineering and natural sciences. Vanguard Photonics builds upon an internationally unique and proprietary technology portfolio. This technology portfolio exploits additive nanofabrication techniques for packaging and assembly of photonic integrated circuits and photonic multi-chip modules, thereby serving a wide range of applications in information and communication technology, in life sciences, as well as in industrial metrology and sensing.