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The knife-edge between failure and success: Iannick Monfils

Last year’s sale of Quantifi Photonics to a US customer meant a big payback for its Kiwi backers, but the CEO says success wasn’t guaranteed.

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The founder of a Kiwi firm that was sold last year for more than $200 million says the startup had been on a "knife's edge" between failure and success.

"But it turned out to be a success,” Iannick Monfils, the CEO of Auckland-based Quantifi Photonics, told the Angel Association Summit in

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Fiona Rotherham Fri, 13 Mar 2026
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