SANTA BARBARA, Calif – Mar. 14, 2024 – Quintessent, a pioneer in heterogeneous silicon photonics and quantum dot laser technology, has closed on just over $11.5 million in an oversubscribed 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.
The proliferation of A.I. is catalyzing a rapid transition and growth of the world’s computing infrastructure from general purpose architectures to ones specifically designed for accelerated computing. This new paradigm of computing requires the orchestration of massively parallel units of distributed but interconnected compute resources at the cluster or datacenter scale. As a result, data movement efficiency of the interconnecting fabric is a critical bottleneck to accelerating system performance at scale.
Achieving sustainable growth of computing and data movement will require new technologies and architectures that can match the rapid progression of bandwidth (density) scaling from computing and switching interfaces while simultaneously minimizing power, latency, fiber count, chip size, and total cost of ownership. In addition, to enable practical deployment at scale and ensure quality of service, significant improvements in reliability relative to today’s solutions are required.
About Quintessent:
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. Quintessent is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.
To learn more about Quintessent, please visit www.quintessent.com or contact info@quintessent.com