Fundz

Celestial Ai Raises $100M To Transfer Data Using Light-Based Interconnects

PRIVATEJun 29, 2023

Amount Raised

$100 Million

Round Type

Funding Round

SunnyvaleInformation TechnologyHardwareSoftwareData And AnalyticsScience And EngineeringArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningImage Recognition

Description

David Lazovsky and Preet Virk, technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor engineering and photonics, came to the joint realization several years ago that AI and machine learning workloads would quickly encounter a “data movement” problem. Increasingly, they predicted, it would become challenging to move data to and from compute hardware as AI models scaled past what could be kept on the die of any one memory chip.

Quick answer

Celestial AI raised $100 Million in a Funding Round round, dated June 29, 2023. Celestial AI is based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

How much did Celestial AI raise?
Celestial AI raised $100 Million in a Funding Round round on June 29, 2023.
What does Celestial AI do?
Celestial AI is the creator of the Photonic Fabric, an optical interconnect technology platform for compute and memory.
Where is Celestial AI based and how big is it?
Celestial AI is based in Sunnyvale, California, United States. Fundz records about 114 employees.
Who are the decision-makers at Celestial AI?
Fundz holds 3 contacts at Celestial AI, including the Director. Names and contact details are shown to Fundz members.

Source: Fundz verified event record.

Who else raised in Hardware and Data And Analytics around the same time

Companies in the same sectors as Celestial AI that raised within 45 days of this round, from Fundz verified event records.

  • Cohere raised an undisclosed amount (Funding Round) on July 20, 2023.
  • Cohere raised $270M (Series C) on June 8, 2023.
  • Inworld AI raised an undisclosed amount on August 2, 2023.
  • Pillir raised $250K on July 14, 2023.
  • Inworld AI raised $36M on June 12, 2023.
  • SafelyYou raised $30M (Debt Financing) on May 30, 2023.

Who to call at Celestial AI, and when

A new round usually means Celestial AI is about to hire and buy. The teams that reach out first get the meeting.

  • An alert the day Celestial AI raises, hires an executive or expands, scored against what you sell
  • The decision-makers there, with verified emails
  • Who you already know at Celestial AI, from your own LinkedIn network

Works inside ChatGPT and Claude. Ask who to call at Celestial AI. With Fundz connected, it knows.

Watch Fundz in
See plan options
Trusted byOracleSnowflakeCloudflareLinkedInGoogleSalesforce 4.8/5 on G2

Company Information

Company

Celestial AI

Location

2962 Bunker Hill Ln, Suite 200

Sunnyvale, California, United States

About

Celestial AI is the creator of the Photonic Fabric, an optical interconnect technology platform for compute and memory. The Photonic Fabric provides the foundational technology for optically scalable, disaggregated data center compute and memory to unleash advancements in AI with sustainable and profitable business models. Celestial AI’s Photonic Fabric delivers a transformative leap in AI system performance and energy efficiency.

AI made execution free. Knowing first is the whole game now.

Fundz sees it the moment Celestial AI raises, hires an exec or expands, usually minutes after it happens, and tells you who to reach.

Related People

3 contacts
Verified contactsVictoria S., DirectorSee plans and pricing
Predictive Intelligence
Strategic

ML-powered predictions for Celestial AI's next move

See what Strategic adds

Celestial AI raised. Fundz records a round at a median of 3.6 minutes from the SEC filing, with the decision-maker attached.

145 of these a day, filtered to the companies you pick, with the decision-maker attached.

5 screens from a live account. No signup.

Fundz is a real-time business intelligence platform powered by agentic AI that proactively delivers personalized daily signals, including funding rounds, executive changes, M&A activity, 13F institutional filings, SEC 8-K events, investor activity, and website modifications, based on each user's watchlist and ICP. A trusted data source at firms such as BlackRock, Oracle, Kleiner Perkins, LinkedIn, HubSpot, and Cloudflare, Fundz democratizes the institutional-grade intelligence that previously required a PitchBook or Bloomberg terminal. Features include Daily Briefing for AI-powered daily briefings, and unified cross-signal alerts across 281,000+ organizations. Developers and data teams can access these signals programmatically via the Fundz Funding Data API, with transparent published pricing.