Lightmatter
PHOTONIC CHIPS FOR AI
AI
📍 Mountain View, CA
Founded 2017
Current Valuation
$3.0B
as of 2024-Q4
UNICORN
Lightmatter creates photonic chips and interconnect platforms that scale AI supercomputers, using photonics to overcome the bandwidth and reach limitations of electrical interconnects. The company develops a complete photonics interconnect platform including processors (Envise), interconnects (Passage), light engines (Guide), and software (Idiom) to enable clusters of over 100,000 GPUs in a single coherent fabric.
Company Profile
Est. Revenue
$116M (2024-Q4)
Growth
Quadrupled valuation to $4.4B in October 2024 Series D
Last Round
Series C-3 — $13M (Oct 2024)
Founders & Key People
Nicholas HarrisDarius BunandarThomas Graham
Investors
T. Rowe Price · Fidelity Management & Research Company · GV (Google Ventures) · Viking Global Investors · SIP Global Partners · Aliya Capital Partners · Spark Capital · Matrix Partners · Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Hewlett Packard Pathfinder · Lockheed Martin Ventures · Harvard Innovation Labs · MIT $100K · E1 Ventures · Sahin Boydas
Competitors
NVIDIA NVLink · Ayar Labs · Celestial AI · Luminous Computing
Photonic ComputingAI InfrastructureSilicon PhotonicsOptical InterconnectsAI ChipsData CenterUnicorn
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of 2024-Q4. Refreshed quarterly.