Lightmatter

DeepTech · Mountain View, US

Photonic computing chips for AI data centre networking.

Founders

Nicholas Harris (United States · ♂) — An MIT PhD researcher combining optics and quantum computing who pivoted to photonic AI computing, winning the 2017 MIT $100K competition and co-founding Lightmatter as CEO.
Darius Bunandar (Indonesia · ♂) — An MIT PhD in the same research group as Harris who co-founded Lightmatter as Chief Scientist to build light-speed AI chips.
Thomas Graham (United States · ♂) — A former Morgan Stanley analyst who met Harris and Bunandar in MIT entrepreneurship classes and co-founded Lightmatter, running operations and finance.

Shares the most investors with (number = shared investors):

Date	Round	Amount
Oct 2024	Series D Plus Photonic computing startup Lightmatter raised a $400M Series D at a $4.4B valuation, led by funds advised by T. Rowe Price, to deploy its Passage technology in data centres.	$400M

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