SANTA CLARA, CA – March 11, 2025 – Celestial AI, creator of the Photonic Cloth optical interconnect, at the moment introduced that it has raised $250 million in its Collection C1 funding spherical led by Constancy Administration & Analysis Firm, bringing the overall capital raised up to now to greater than $515 million.
New buyers embody funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, Maverick Silicon, Tiger World Administration and Lip-Bu Tan, in addition to participation from current buyers together with AMD Ventures, Koch Disruptive Applied sciences (KDT), Temasek, Temasek’s wholly-owned subsidiary Xora Innovation, Porsche Automobil Holding SE and The Engine Ventures.
“With the emergence of advanced reasoning fashions and agentic AI, the necessities on AI infrastructure are compounding,” stated David Lazovsky, CEO of Celestial AI. “Cluster sizes should scale from just a few AI processors in a server to tens of processors in a single rack and hundreds of processors throughout a number of racks, all whereas counting on high-bandwidth, low-latency community connectivity to deal with large information transfers between processors. Celestial AI’s Photonic Cloth is the one expertise platform able to assembly these essential calls for whereas setting new requirements for bandwidth, latency, vitality effectivity and complete price of possession. We’re excited to work with prime international buyers who convey the capital and dedication to help our long-term mission of revolutionizing AI infrastructure with our Photonic Cloth.”
To deal with the quickly altering AI panorama, Celestial AI’s Photonic Cloth expertise platform permits AI compute to be networked seamlessly, from inside processor packages to servers throughout a number of racks. Celestial AI presents a full suite of merchandise, that embody connectivity, switching and packaging options which function the muse for optical scale-up networks for accelerated computing.
“Amid the explosive progress of Synthetic Intelligence, Celestial AI is uniquely positioned to satisfy the hovering calls for of information heart infrastructure with its disruptive Photonic Cloth expertise,” stated Tony Kim, Head of Basic Equities Know-how Group at BlackRock.
“By offering terabytes of low latency bandwidth and in-network computing, in addition to in-network high-speed, high-capacity reminiscence, Photonic Cloth permits the following technology of AI infrastructure, drawing upon the corporate’s wealthy IP in optical interconnect inside chip, inside bundle and between package-to-package”, stated Andrew Homan, Managing Accomplice at Maverick Silicon.
Celestial AI’s Photonic Cloth expertise is totally appropriate with trade commonplace manufacturing and a couple of.5D packaging processes. With deep engagements with a number of hyperscalers, AI processor, customized silicon and packaging companions, this funding will allow the corporate to develop and qualify its quantity manufacturing supply-chain to serve buyer demand.
“Celestial AI’s Photonic Cloth is essentially reworking AI computing, networking and reminiscence options by addressing essential infrastructure challenges with unmatched efficiency and vitality effectivity,” stated Diane Bryant, Impartial Director at Celestial AI and Broadcom Inc. ” I’ve witnessed the modern potential of their expertise to unlock new capabilities and as a member of the Board of Administrators, am proud to be on the Celestial AI crew as they commercialize their ground-breaking Photonic Cloth platform.”
