Quintessent, a Santa Barbara, CA-based heterogeneous silicon photonics and quantum dot laser technology company, closed on over $11.5m in Seed funding round.
Osage University Partners (OUP) led the round along with new investors including M Ventures, and joining existing investors Sierra Ventures, Foothill Ventures, and Entrada Ventures. Manny Stockman, a Partner at OUP, will be joining Quintessent’s Board of Directors.
This new funding allows the company to grow the team and accelerate the development of optical interconnects built on top of a technology stack including its multi-wavelength comb laser.
Led by Alan Liu, CEO and co-founder, Quintessent is developing optical connectivity solutions to interconnect compute and switch chips with massively accelerated and power efficient bandwidth across the datacenter. Leveraging multiple innovations spanning materials, device/circuit design, and link architecture, Quintessent technology simultaneously reduces power consumption and required component count while multiplying bandwidth density compared the state of the art.
FinSMEs
14/03/2024