Optical interconnectivity startup raised a $250 million Series C1 round led by at a $2.5 billion valuation.
The fresh cash comes almost exactly a year after the company locked up a $175 million Series C led by 鈥檚 .
The Santa Clara, California-based startup鈥檚 photonic fabric platform helps separate compute and memory, making processing extensive AI faster and providing more energy-efficient computing.
The new round included participation from new investors including funds and accounts managed by , , and , as well as participation from existing investors including , , , Temasek鈥檚 fund, and .
Big dollars
Founded in 2020, Celestial AI has now raised more than $515 million, per the company
The company鈥檚 photonic fabric helps solve one of generative AI鈥檚 biggest issues 鈥 untangling compute power and memory to make the technology more efficient.
鈥淲ith the emergence of complex reasoning models and agentic AI, the requirements on AI infrastructure are compounding,鈥 said CEO in a . 鈥淐luster sizes must scale from a few AI processors in a server to tens of processors in a single rack and thousands of processors across multiple racks, all while relying on high-bandwidth, low-latency network connectivity to handle massive data transfers between processors.鈥
Thanks to AI, chips seem to be the talk of tech right now. Just last month, 鈥 a startup developing analog in-memory-computing AI chips 鈥 raised a Series B of more than $100 million led by .
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