Optical AI Chip Startups

DustPhotonics

Silicon photonics technology for hyperscale data centers and AI applications.

SynSense

Developer of neuromorphic chips and bio-inspired vision sensors and software.

Next Silicon

Rethinking compute architectures for future processing needs with novel VLSI designs.

LightSpeedAI Labs

Developing optical interconnect technology for high-performance AI infrastructure.

Broadcom Inc.

Semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions provider.

Cisco Systems

Global technology leader providing networking, security, and collaboration solutions for businesses.

Aloe Semiconductor

Develops advanced semiconductor technology to double PAM4 optics bandwidth using dual polarization.

Skorpios Technologies

Telecommunications company developing silicon photonics solutions for high-speed communication.

Luminous Computing

Premium domain name Luminous.com, valued at seven figures, is for sale.

BrainChip

Pioneers edge AI with neuromorphic computing, offering complete AI solutions from silicon to software.

Mixx Technologies

AI-powered platform for personalized customer engagement and marketing automation.

Lumentum

Supplier of optical networking equipment and laser components.

EDWATEC

Swiss high-tech startup developing rare-earth ion-doped photonic integrated circuits for optical communication.

Quantum Xchange

Quantum Xchange offers a quantum fiber network and cryptographic management platform for post-quantum security.

Movidius

A computer vision technology company.

Hailo

Hailo develops AI processors for edge devices, enabling on-device generative AI.

Enablence

Designs and manufactures advanced photonic semiconductor chips for optical transceivers, LiDAR, and high-performance applications.

Drut

Drut enables datacenter disaggregation via PCIe cards, MEMS switching, and coordination software.

LiGenTec

LIGENTEC designs and manufactures low-loss silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for high-tech industries.

Dream Photonics

Develops integrated photonic systems, offering design kits, hybrid integration, and assembly solutions for optical interconnects.

Ayar Labs

Co-packaged optics for higher bandwidth and lower power data transmission.

Blumind

Canadian fabless semiconductor company specializing in low-power analog AI compute-in-memory chip technology for edge devices.

AttoTude

AttoTude develops high-speed wired (copper) THz interconnects for datacenters.

Neurophos

Neurophos develops photonic AI chips (OPUs) for extreme efficiency and performance in AI compute.

Rebellions

Lightmatter

Developing photonic computing and interconnect technology to accelerate AI infrastructure and improve energy efficiency.

Ncodin

Ncodin develops optical interposer technology with integrated nanolasers to overcome the limitations of traditional copper interconnects for AI.

Scintil Photonics

Develops laser-integrated silicon photonics for high-speed optical interconnects in AI data centers.

Effect Photonics

Develops highly integrated optical communication products using photonic chip technology for data centers and edge networks.

Nvidia

Global leader in GPUs and AI hardware, powering data centers, gaming, and autonomous systems.

Great Sky

Pioneering a new computing architecture for AI using superconducting optoelectronics.

Tsavorite Scalable Intelligence

Developing the Omni Processing Unit (OPU) that unifies CPU, GPU, memory, and connectivity for AI workloads.

Casela Technologies

Global semiconductor laser company specializing in high-performance laser solutions for silicon photonics.

FuriosaAI

South Korean semiconductor company designing AI accelerator chips and software for LLMs and multimodal AI.

Avicena

Avicena develops microLED interconnects for AI data centers, enabling ultra-low power, high bandwidth chip-to-chip optical connections.

Quintessent

Developing quantum-dot lasers and optical amplifiers integrated into SiPho-based PICs for chip-to-chip communication.

Bright Silicon Technologies

Optical circuit switch company with proprietary MEMS-based light steering technology.

Celero Communications

Celero Communications provides high-speed internet and communication services to underserved areas.

Ranovus

Designs and manufactures high-density, low-power optical interconnect solutions for AI and cloud infrastructure.

Quandela

Developing quantum computing hardware.

Alcyon Photonics

Spanish startup designing high-performance photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and IP.

Enosemi

Enosemi provides silicon photonics based chiplets, custom silicon, and intellectual property products.

Rockley Photonics

Rockley Photonics is developing integrated silicon photonics solutions for sensing and communication applications.

Salience Labs

Salience Labs is developing hybrid photonic-electronic chips for AI acceleration.

Celestial AI

Celestial AI develops Photonic Fabric, a revolutionary optical interconnect technology that scales AI compute and data movement within and across data centers, overcoming the limitations of traditional electronic interconnects.

Akhetonics

Developing the world's first all-optical XPU for unprecedented processing speed and energy efficiency.

SambaNova Systems

Tenstorrent

Designs high-performance AI processors and RISC-V based compute solutions.

Axelera AI

Axelera AI delivers an AI-native game-changing hardware and software platform to accelerate artificial intelligence.

Oculi

Oculi is a provider of AI-based sensor processors.

OpenLight

Xanadu

Xanadu is a Canadian quantum computing company building photonic quantum computers and developing quantum software.

Enlightra

Develops scalable, extreme-bandwidth optical interconnects for data centers and AI clusters using comb laser technology.

Xsight Labs

Fabless semiconductor company developing advanced data center storage solutions.

Expedera

Expedera provides scalable Neural Processing Unit (NPU) semiconductor IP for edge AI inference.

Cornelis Networks

Building scale-out networking solutions for AI data centers.

d-Matrix