Eliyan Corporation says it has closed a $145 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, with the round led by Seligman Ventures and joined by two new strategic investors drawn from optical networking: Cisco Investments and Lumentum. The Santa Clara company announced the financing on July 29, 2026, and said the capital will fund an expansion beyond its electrical chiplet interconnect business into electro-optical links for AI systems. Umesh Padval, managing partner at Seligman Ventures, joins… [...]
For three years, the AI race has been a race for faster chips. Eliyan just became a $1bn company by pointing out that the chips are now too fast for their own wires. The Santa Clara startup said it cl [...]
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In a major leap forward for the future of artificial intelligence infrastructure, Lumai, the Oxford-born startup pioneering 3D optical computing, has raised more than $10 million in a fresh funding ro [...]