Double Helix Optics raises $1.4 million in capital

BOULDER — Double Helix Optics Inc., which specializes in 3D imaging, has raised $1.4 million in capital.

The Boulder-based company uses Nobel-prize winning technology, called super resolution imaging, and combines that with 3D to enable high-precision extended depth imaging, CEO and co-founder Leslie Kimerling told BizWest. Super-resolution imaging won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2014. It found a way to capture the image of very, very small items — particles and molecules and proteins — without it being too blurry to see clearly.

Co-founder and chief innovation officer Rafael Piestun, a professor at CU Boulder,…