/ About us

Chemical analysis + insight at your fingertips.

Spectra serves industries where the stakes are high and precision matters, from public safety agencies confronting the overdose crisis to companies engineering a more sustainable future. Our technology turns complex chemical questions into clear answers, right where the work happens. With actionable chemical insights, our solutions help drive innovation and safeguard our world.

An Amplifi ID unit in the case with a person about to take it out.
An Amplifi ID unit in the case with a person about to take it out.

/ Our mission

To make precise chemical intelligence accessible, wherever high consequence decisions are being made.​

/ Our story

Built by experts. Proudly Canadian.

Spectra Plasmonics is a Canadian owned and operated organization that was founded as a spinoff company from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Today our technology team draws on Master's and PhD-level expertise from some of the top programs in the country, and our collective expertise is what drives our ability to develop high quality, easy to use products that deliver chemical analysis + insight to the industries that need it the most.

/ What drives us

Principles we build on

Accuracy you can act on

Results that hold up when decisions depend on them.

Built for the field

Powerful analysis made simple enough for anyone to use.

Canadian rigor

Deep scientific expertise, developed and supported at home.

Safeguarding people

Technology in service of safety and better outcomes.

/ Meet the team

Who's behind the results

Malcolm Eade

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Tyler Whitney

Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer

Juan Gomez, PhD

Chief Technology Officer

Michael Grossutti, PhD

Data Scientist & ML Lead

Brianna Bradley, PhD

Full Stack Developer

Yasmeen El-Rayyes

Associate Application Scientist

Swapnil Daxini, PhD

Research Scientist

Alfred Wong

Lab Technician & Manufacturing Specialist

/ Backed by

Institutional partners and ecosystem support

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  • Canada logo
  • CP2S logo
  • nventure logo
  • Launch Lab logo
  • MaRS logo
  • Ontario Genomics logo
  • Queen's University logo
  • DDQIC logo
  • Reddendale Pharmacy logo
  • Velocity Incubator logo

/ Backed by

Institutional partners and ecosystem support

  • Creative Destruction Lab logo
  • Canada logo
  • CP2S logo
  • nventure logo
  • Launch Lab logo
  • MaRS logo
  • Ontario Genomics logo
  • Queen's University logo
  • DDQIC logo
  • Reddendale Pharmacy logo
  • Velocity Incubator logo

/ Backed by

Institutional partners and ecosystem support

  • Creative Destruction Lab logo
  • Canada logo
  • CP2S logo
  • nventure logo
  • Launch Lab logo
  • MaRS logo
  • Ontario Genomics logo
  • Queen's University logo
  • DDQIC logo
  • Reddendale Pharmacy logo
  • Velocity Incubator logo

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