Salience Labs raises $125M to scale optical switches for AI data centers

Salience Labs CEO Vaysh Kewada is taking the Oxford spinout's photonics from a 64-port demo toward volume manufacturing, six weeks after iPronics raised the same amount.

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Primary source: Tech.eu

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Salience Labs is using the round to move from photonics research toward data-center hardware production. Commercial deployments and production performance will test whether its optical switches can meet the company's case.

A cleanroom technician checks optical fibers on a manufacturing test line beneath a Salience Labs sign.

Vaysh Kewada, co-founder and CEO of Salience Labs, has raised $125 million to take the company's optical switches for AI data centers from research and demonstration toward volume manufacturing. Announced on October 14th, the oversubscribed Series B was led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Business Bank participating.…

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