Scalable Laser Arrays for Networking, AI, and LIDAR
Location: United States
Total raised: $51.5M
Investors 2
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Entrada | entradaven... |
| 24.02.2023 | Foothill V... | foothill.v... |
Funding Rounds 2
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 24.08.2026 | Series A | $40M | M Ventures |
| 14.03.2024 | Seed | $11.5M | - |
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| 24.08.2026 | Quintessent Raises $40 Million Series A | SANTA BARBARA, CA, Quintessent, an innovator in resilient and low-cost AI datacenter optical interconnect products, announced it has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A investment round. >> Click here for more funding da... |
| 24.08.2026 | Quintessent Raises $40 Million to Make AI Datacenters Faster and Less Power-Hungry | AI datacenters need to move huge amounts of data between computers and that requires a lot of lasers. However, there aren’t enough lasers to go around, and the available ones use too much power. Quintessent raises $40 million to build a new... |
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