Luminous Computing

About

Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry.

Mountain View,California,United States
101 - 250
https://www.luminous.com/

Highlights

Details

Last Funding Type: Series A
Last Funding Money Raised: $105M
Industries: Artificial Intelligence,Computer,Hardware,Software
Founded date: Jan 1, 2018
Number Of Employee: 101 - 250
Operating Status: Active
Legal Name: Luminous Computing, Inc.

Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face.

The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds

Total Funding Amount

3

$115M

Luminous Computing has raised a total of $115M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Mar 3, 2022 from a Series A round.

Announced Date	Round	Money Raised	Number of Investors	Lead Investors	Post Valuation
Mar 3, 2022	Series A	$105M	9	—	—	Detail
Jun 4, 2019	Seed	$9M	13	—	—	Detail
Jun 1, 2018	Pre-seed	$1M	1	—	—	Detail

Investments

Number of Investments

Number of Lead Investments

2

0

Luminous Computing has made 2 investments. Their most recent investment was on Dec 7, 2017, when Billie raised €10M.

Date Company Name	Round	Money Raised	Industry	Lead Investor
Dec 7, 2017 Billie	Series A	€10M	E-Commerce	—
Dec 11, 2016 Billie	Seed	€3.50M	E-Commerce	—

Investors

Number of Lead Investors

Number of Investors

—

17

Luminous Computing is funded by 17 investors. 8090 Partners and Alumni Ventures are the most recent investors.

Investor Name	Lead Investor	Funding Round
8090 Partners	—	Series A
Alumni Ventures	—	Series A
Bill Gates	—	Series A
Gigafund	—	Series A
Horsley Bridge Partners	—	Series A
Modern Venture Partners	—	Series A
Neo	—	Series A
Strawberry Creek Ventures	—	Series A
Third Kind Venture Capital	—	Series A
10100 fund	—	Seed