Ayar Labs

company

About

Ayar Labs develops an optical I/O solution for applications that require high bandwidth and low latency using light to move data.

Details

Last Funding Type
Series C
Last Funding Money Raised
$130M
Industries
Computer,Hardware,Information Technology,Semiconductor
Founded date
Jan 1, 2015
Number Of Employee
101 - 250
Operating Status
Active
Legal Name
Ayar Labs, Inc.

Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.

The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.

The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade.

Funding Rounds

Number of Funding Rounds
Total Funding Amount
10
$194.65M
Ayar Labs has raised a total of $194.65M in funding over 2 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Apr 26, 2022 from a Series C round.
Announced Date Round Money Raised Number of Investors Lead Investors Post Valuation
Apr 26, 2022 Series C $130M 10 Boardman Bay Capital Management Detail
Nov 5, 2020 Series B $35M 10 BlueSky Capital Detail
Oct 14, 2020 Series Unknown 1 Detail
Mar 2, 2020 Series Unknown 1 Lockheed Martin Ventures Detail
Apr 30, 2019 Debt Financing $3M 1 Silicon Valley Bank Detail

Employee Profiles

Number of Employee Profiles
19
Ayar Labs has 19 current employee profiles, including Executive Chen Sun
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