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: $34M
Founded date: 2022
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 26.08.2025 | Series A | $34M | New Legacy... |
Mentions in press and media 15
| Date | Title | Description |
| 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-... |
| 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... |
| 26.08.2025 | OpenLight Raises $34M Series A to Scale Next-Gen Integrated Photonics for AI Data Centers | Series A co-led by Xora Innovation and Capricorn marks OpenLight's transition from a Synopsys subsidiary to a high-velocity, venture-backed company Covered by more than 360 patents, OpenLight's PDK gives customers access to a library of pas... |
| 07.03.2023 | OpenLight Introduces 224G InP-based Modulator to Advance PIC Designs for Datacom Market | New Modulator Increases Speed and Scale to 224G/λ for Future High-Speed Applications MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenLight today announced that it developed and successfully demonstrated a 224G InP-based modulator a... |
| 06.03.2023 | OpenLight Introduces 224G InP-based Modulator to Advance PIC Designs for Datacom Market | New Modulator Increases Speed and Scale to 224G/λ for Future High-Speed Applications MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- OpenLight today announced that it developed and successfully demonstrated a 224G InP-based modulator a... |
| 03.03.2023 | OpenLight Announces Availability of First Process Design Kit Sampler to Accelerate Component Testing | New Product Offers Lab-Testing Flexibility and Enhances PIC Design Accuracy to Accelerate Time to Market MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- To enhance familiarity with process technologies and increase the accessibility of... |
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