nEye Systems, an Emeryville, CA-based optical switch startup, closed a $58m Series B financing.
The round, which brought total funding to $72.5m, was led by Alphabet’s independent growth fund, CapitalG, with participation from M12, Microsoft’s venture fund; Micron Ventures; NVIDIA; and Socratic Partners. nEye previously secured an unannounced Series A led by TEDA Holdings with support from Innolight Technology USA and additional Seed funds.
Founded in 2020 and led by Professor Ming Wu, nEye Systems is an optical switch startup focused on data centers. Its MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switches (OCS) enable direct optical connections among thousands of GPUs and memory units. The SuperSwitch is an ultra-low power consumption, high radix, compact chip-scale design, offering hyperscale data centers enhanced performance, efficiency, and scalability.
nEye’s technology can be deployed in various applications, including network flattening, network resilience, and inside the rack to extend GPU cluster sizes and increase GPU utilization efficiency.
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10/04/2025