Lightmatter is a Photonics & Interconnects company founded in 2017 and based in Boston, USA. It has raised $667M in total funding, most recently a Series D in 2024 at a $4.4B valuation.
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 16, 2024 | Series D | $400M | $4.4B | T. Rowe Price |
| May 1, 2023 | Series C | $154M | — |
| GV |
| May 6, 2021 | Series B | $80M | — | Viking Global Investors |
| Jan 1, 2019 | Series A | $33M | — | GV |
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Lightmatter's flagship 3D photonic interconnect, described as the world's first photonic interposer: a wafer-scale active substrate that stacks compute chiplets on top while routing terabits of data optically across its surface. The M1000 delivers multi-terabit-per-second per-port bandwidth to connect GPUs, TPUs, and switches in the largest AI training clusters, attacking the interconnect bandwidth wall that limits how big AI systems can scale.
A chiplet-style co-packaged optics product that brings optical I/O directly next to an accelerator or switch ASIC, replacing power-hungry electrical SerDes with light. The L200 dramatically raises the bandwidth that can escape a package while cutting energy per bit, enabling denser, more efficient scale-up and scale-out fabrics for AI data centers.
Envise is Lightmatter's photonic compute engine that performs neural-network matrix operations using light for high throughput at low power, paired with Idiom, a software stack that lets standard ML models (PyTorch/TensorFlow) compile down to the photonic hardware. Together they target energy-efficient AI inference, complementing Lightmatter's photonic interconnect roadmap.