OpenLight Photonics, Inc.
OpenLight Photonics is a company that provides custom Photonic Application Specific Integrated Circuits (PASIC) design enablement, inhouse design, and production using its silicon photonics technology.
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About OpenLight Photonics, Inc.
How much funding has OpenLight Photonics, Inc. raised?
OpenLight Photonics, Inc. has raised $3.5M in total funding. The most recent round was Series A.
Where is OpenLight Photonics, Inc. headquartered?
OpenLight Photonics, Inc. is headquartered in Goleta, CA.
What does OpenLight Photonics, Inc. do?
OpenLight Photonics is a company that provides custom Photonic Application Specific Integrated Circuits (PASIC) design enablement, inhouse design, and production using its silicon photonics technology.
What problem does OpenLight Photonics, Inc. solve?
Companies need custom photonic chips (PASICs) for high-speed optical connectivity but lack the in-house capability to design, build, and reliably manufacture them.
What's OpenLight Photonics, Inc.'s solution?
OpenLight offers three services: a Process Design Kit (PDK) so customers can design their own PASIC, in-house design and layout of custom PASICs, and guaranteed production/manufacturing of PASICs for customers.
What makes OpenLight Photonics, Inc. different?
The company states its silicon photonics technology heterogeneously integrates passive and active elements onto the same silicon platform (unlike separate-component approaches), holds an extensive patent portfolio protecting this IP, and recently secured $50 million in Series A-1 funding to scale a 3.2Tbps/1.6Tbps PASIC platform.
What makes OpenLight Photonics, Inc. notable?
OpenLight has raised over $84M total, including a $50M Series A-1 round, with investors such as Capricorn Investment Group.
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