Confluent Photonics

company

About

Developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry.

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Details

Last Funding Type
Series A
Last Funding Money Raised
$11M
Industries
Infrastructure,Semiconductor,Telecommunications
Founded date
Jan 1, 2000
Number Of Employee
1 - 10
Operating Status
Active

Confluent Photonics Corporation is developing passive and active DWDM optical components for the telecommunications industry based on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) semiconductor fabrication techniques. The use of SOI along with the CMOS fabrication infrastructure developed to process SOI enables cost-effective high volume optical telecom component solutions for the access, metropolitan and long haul telecom markets. The compatibility of Confluent optical designs and manufacturing techniques with CMOS fabrication also provides a pathway for the future integration of optics and electronics on the same telecommunications chip.

Current optical telecommunication product technologies and designs result in miniaturized optical lab benches lacking thermal and mechanical robustness. In contrast, Confluent is designing and fabricating Telcordia-compliant optical chip components for the automated manufacture of integrated optical circuits. These components are designed to be insensitive to their environment. Using semiconductor-manufacturing techniques provides built in optical alignment, high volume production and low cost.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
2
$14M
Confluent Photonics has raised a total of $14M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Sep 12, 2003 from a Series B round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Sep 12, 2003 Series B $3M 1 Detail
Jan 10, 2001 Series A $11M 2 Detail

Investors

Number of Lead Investors
Number of Investors
2
Confluent Photonics is funded by 2 investors. Invesco and CIT VentureCapital are the most recent investors.
Investor Name Lead Investor Funding Round
Invesco Series B
CIT VentureCapital Series A