Lightly Technologies

Lightly Technologies develops Catcher, a handheld field device for rapid drug and substance identification. The user inserts a single-use cartridge and receives results within minutes, based on the company's patented UV-Fingerprint method. Results are uploaded to a central database for cross-matching between cases.

The website names law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and public health officers as the users of the device. It describes the offering as detection hardware combined with intelligence sharing, and does not state pricing or the revenue model. The UV-Fingerprint method was first tested with the Czech Police Presidium, and the company refers to international pilots with law enforcement agencies in the U.S.

The company was founded in 2023 as a spin-out from a Czech university research lab, after what the website describes as nearly 7 years of R&D. It participated in EIT Jumpstarter. The team page lists co-founders as CEO and CSO, along with hardware, software, architecture, design and research roles. The company's careers page lists one open position, Hardware Developer Intern, in Brno, Czechia.

Product: Catcher, a handheld field device with single-use cartridges for rapid drug and substance identification, with results synced to a forensic database.