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Xscape Photonics

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Rocket Ship Rating: 97 out of 100

We develop custom silicon photonics solutions to solve escape bandwidth bottlenecks in A.I. clusters.

Also known as Xscape Photonics Inc

  • AI models & AI infrastructure
  • Cloud & networking
  • Deeptech
  • Hardware
Status
Operatingas of 2026-09-17
Business model
B2B
Legal name
Xscape Photonics Inc
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Record updated 28 September 2026

About

Xscape Photonics is helping customers escape the scaling limits of Agentic AI hardware by enabling machines to think faster. Spun out of groundbreaking silicon photonics work at Columbia University, the company has developed a scalable multi-color laser platform to solve the escape bandwidth bottlenecks limiting GPU-to-GPU and GPU-to-memory interfaces in data center fabrics.

Funding snapshot

Total raised
$56.8MSEC form D sum, as of 2026-09-28Source (opens in a new tab)
Latest round
Series A, $37M2026-03-11

Funding rounds

Series A
$37M2026-03-11, Company stated
Round, 2024
$43.8M2024-09-04, SEC form D sold, 11 investors
Round, 2023
$3M2023-08-11, SEC form D sold, 2 investors
Round, 2022
$10M2022-08-29, SEC form D sold, 1 investor

Products

Hardware
Eight-Wavelength Laser
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