Salience Labs Secures $125 Mn to Expand Optical Switching Technology for AI

The company will use the funding to speed up the rollout of its optical switching technology and expand its manufacturing operations.

The funding round was led by Bullhound Capital, with investments from AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Business Bank.

The company’s existing investors, including Applied Ventures, Oxford Science Enterprises, Cambridge Innovation Capital and Silicon Catalyst Ventures, also joined the round.

Explaining the importance of optical switching for AI data centres, Vaysh Kewada, CEO and co-founder of Salience Labs, said: "OCS will play a critical role in AI datacenter networking. As customers roll out optical links in their datacenters, high-performance optical switches are needed to deliver the token economics that workloads demand. Salience Labs has demonstrated a market-leading technology: a fully integrated on-chip solution that scales well to high-volume manufacturing."

The funding will help Salience Labs bring its optical switching technology to more AI data centres and expand its manufacturing operations.

The company will also invest in product development, including the creation of its next-generation optical switches.

In addition, Salience Labs plans to grow its engineering team to support product development and manufacturing.

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