With decades of experience in photonics design, our executive and engineering teams are delivering the world’s first open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers.
You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 200 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.
You can improve the performance, power efficiency, and reliability of your design using the OpenLight platform for datacom, telecom, LiDAR, healthcare, HPC, AI, and optical computing applications. With over 200 patents and technology adoption by companies across industries, we’re bringing optical solutions to places they’ve never been before, and we’re enabling technologies that weren’t previously possible.
Location: United States
Employees: 11-50
Total raised: $84M
Founded date: 2022
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 05.05.2026 | Catapult V... | catapult.v... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 28.04.2026 | Series A | $50M | New Legacy... |
| 27.08.2025 | Series A | $34M | New Legacy... |
Mentions in press and media 19
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.08.2026 | OpenLight to Highlight Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics at Four Key Global Industry Events | OpenLight to Highlight Heterogeneous Silicon Photonics OpenLight's InP-on-silicon platform enables fully integrated photonic chips that reduce power consumption, footprint, cost and system complexity. September presents an excellent opportu... |
| 28.04.2026 | OpenLight: $50 Million Raised For Next-Generation Photonics Platform Serving AI Data Centers And Beyond | OpenLight, a Santa Barbara-based photonics company and developer of custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, has raised $50 million in a Series A-1 round, bringing its total funding to $84 million. The oversubscribed round ... |
| 28.04.2026 | OpenLight Raises $50M in Series A-1 Funding | OpenLight, a Santa Barbara, CA-based company which specializes in custom photonic application-specific integrated circuit (PASIC) design, raised $50M in Series A funding. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from... |
| 17.03.2026 | OpenLight and TFC Advance Silicon Photonics Back End Integration Supporting up to 400G Data Rates on TGV Substrate | OpenLight and TFC Advance Silicon Photonics Back End Integration Supporting up to 400G Data Rates on TGV Substrate As silicon photonics adoption continues to grow, success increasingly depends on the readiness of the back end ecosystem,” — ... |
| 11.03.2026 | OpenLight to Showcase III-V Heterogenous Integrated Silicon Photonics Innovations and Production Capabilities at OFC | OpenLight to Showcase Breakthrough III-V Heterogenous Integrated Silicon Photonics Innovations and Production Capabilities for AI, Cloud, and High Speed Networking at OFC 2026 OpenLight to Showcase Production Capabilities for AI, Cloud, and... |
| 10.03.2026 | OpenLight Introduces 3.2T DR8 Silicon Photonics PICs as well as 1.6T DR8 LRO and LPO Variants | First 3.2T DR8 prototype photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have been sampled to multiple transceiver manufacturers The 3.2T DR8 PIC with 448G EAMs delivers clear benefits in power efficiency, cost, and time to production.” — Dr. Adam Cart... |
| 05.03.2026 | OpenLight Receives Volume Orders for NewPhotonics 800G & 1.6T PICs with Tower Semiconductor InP-on-Silicon Platform | OpenLight Receives Volume Orders for NewPhotonics 800G & 1.6T PICs with Tower Semiconductor InP-on-Silicon Platform SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, March 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- OpenLight, a leader in heterogeneous III-V-on-silico... |
| 14.01.2026 | OpenLight Attending PIC Summit 2026 | 19 January 2026 - Plug and Play Tech Center, Sunnyvale, California SANTA CLARA, CA, UNITED STATES, January 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- OpenLight’s silicon photonics heterogeneous integration technology is core to the manufacture of next-... |
| 27.08.2025 | OpenLight Closes $34M Series A Round | SANTA CLARA, CA, OpenLight has announced the close of its oversubscribed $34 million Series A round. >> Click here for more funding data on OpenLight >> To export OpenLight funding data to PDF and Excel, click here OpenLight, a... |
| 26.08.2025 | Integrated photonics startup OpenLight gets $34M to design and build faster interconnects for AI chips Accelerating silicon photonics Long-term ambitions Send us a News Tip EXTRACT THE SIGNAL FROM THE... | Data center interconnect design and manufacturing startup OpenLight Photonics Inc. says it wants to accelerate the transition to silicon photonics after spinning out of its parent company Synopsys Inc. and closing on $34 million in Series A... |
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