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Lightmatter Raises $80M Series B And Brings Photonic Compute Chip To Market That Accelerates Ai With 10X-Plus Speed And Energy Advantage

Lightmatter Raises $80M Series B And Brings Photonic Compute Chip To Market That Accelerates Ai With 10X-Plus Speed And Energy Advantage

05/06/21, 2:16 PM
Location
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Money raised
$80 million
Industry
hardware
Round Type
series b
Lightmatter, the leader in photonic computing, announced today that it has raised a $80 million Series B investment round, bringing total investment raised so far to $113 million. The round was led by Viking Global Investors with participation from GV (formerly Google Ventures), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lockheed Martin, Matrix Partners, SIP Global Partners, Spark Capital, and others.

Company Info

Company
Lightmatter
Location
mountain view, california, united states
Additional Info
Lightmatter is leading the revolution in AI data center infrastructure and enabling the next giant leaps in human progress. The company invented the world's first 3D-stacked photonics engine, Passage, capable of connecting thousands to millions of processors at the speed of light in extreme-scale data centers for the most advanced AI and HPC workloads.

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