Salience Labs secures £9.4m in seed funding led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises to develop artificial intelligence processors.
The seed round was co-led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises to accelerate the development of photonic artificial intelligence processors.
Salience Labs develops ultra high-speed multi-chip processors that combine photonics and electronics to accelerate artificial intelligence applications. The company is based in Oxford.
Salience Labs has secured £9.4m in seed financing to advance its multi-chip processor technology for artificial intelligence. The round was jointly led by Cambridge Innovation Capital and Oxford Science Enterprises, with participation from Oxford Investment Consultants, Jalal Bagherli, Silicon Catalyst, the Goh Family Office, and Deeptech Labs. The capital will support the commercialisation of the company architecture, which pairs photonic processing with standard electronics to deliver high-speed computing performance within tight power envelopes.
From the founder
"The world needs ever faster chips to grow AI capability, but the semiconductor industry cannot keep pace with this demand."
Vaysh Kewada
CEO and co-founder at Salience Labs
Investor perspective
"Salience Labs brings together deep domain expertise in photonics, electronics and CMOS manufacture."
Ian Lane
Partner, Cambridge Innovation Capital
Investors
Ian Lane
Cambridge Innovation Capital
Alexis Zervoglos
Oxford Science Enterprises
Oxford Investment Consultants
Silicon Catalyst
Goh Family Office
Deeptech Labs
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Salience Labs
Salience Labs builds ultra high-speed multi-chip processors that combine photonics and electronics for artificial intelligence applications.