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Lightmatter
Light-powered AI computing
- 101-200 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Manufacturing
- Deep Tech
- Machine Learning
- Science
- Financial District, Boston, MA
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Company mission
Lightmatter's mission is to build an engine that will power discoveries, drive progress, and redefine what computers and human beings are capable of.
Our take
Neural networks and CPUs are vital to AI solutions, but manufacturers have largely failed to maintain innovation in recent years. Lightmatter solves this problem by offering a next-generation computing platform powered by photonics (light waves).
Lightmatter offers a forward-facing platform for AI-building that acts as an alternative to traditional solutions. It works by replacing wired CPUs with a combination of photonics and new algorithms. Lightmatter's solution is not only faster, but it is considerably more sustainable, and it has the potential to drive the next generation of AI development.
As of 2022, Lightmatter has raised $113 million across three funding rounds, which is testament to growing industry demand for faster, more effective AI-building solutions. Lightmatter currently has three products on the market - Envise, Passage, and Idiom - and is poised to take on the incumbent chiplet industry with a photonics-based alternative.
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Benefits
- Generous vacation policy and holidays
- 401(K)
- Opportunity to learn from your peers and teach them what you know across electronics, photonics, machine learning, and more
- Commuter benefit
- Happy hour -Spend time together and build friendships
Company values
- WORK WIDE & PARALLEL: Working on hard problems, we have to go down many different paths quickly to find the right one.
- QUESTION EVERYTHING: People have opinions about what things work and what things don’t work. They’re not always right.
- LET FIRST PRINCIPLES GUIDE YOU: Stand behind statements that you know are true and build something amazing.
- DON'T BE DEFINED BY YOUR JOB TITLE: Many great ideas occur at the boundaries between disciplines.
- BE KIND: Help build the environment you want to work in.
- TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR WORK: Everyone’s contributions are critical to the company’s success.
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Oct 2024
$400m
SERIES D
Dec 2023
$155m
SERIES C
Total funding: $822m
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Leadership
Nicholas Harris
(CEO)Previously worked as an R&D Product Engineer at Micron Technology, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT.
Thomas Graham
(COO)Was an M&A Analyst at Morgan Stanley, and worked as an Agency Business Development Manager at Google.
Darius Bunandar
(Chief Scientist)Worked as a Research Collaborator at Caltech, and was a PhD Candidate at MIT.