Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference
Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid constraints in indium phosphide. The Netherlands is building a EUR 153M indium phosphide pilot line at Eindhoven that opens in 2027, the same year Volantis plans to ship.
Volantis has raised $88M to put light between AI chips and their memory. Its design deliberately routes around indium phosphide. Europe has committed EUR 153M to a pilot line that makes exactly that.
The Series A came from Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic and Susa Ventures taking part, as TechFundingNews reported. The San Francisco company plans first customer deliveries in 2027.
The founders are Tapa Ghosh, a Thiel fellow and former Y Combinator founder, and Roy Meade, who ran Micron’s high-bandwidth memory programme and was a vice president at Ayar Labs.
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