The firm leads minority investments in early to mid-stage technology companies focusing on data-centric segments.
Portfolio
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companies
Oriole Networks
Oriole Networks builds photonic networking technology to connect AI accelerators using light instead of electricity.
causaLens
causaLens develops Causal AI technology that enables systems to reason alongside humans.
Daniel Freeman
General Partner
Daniel serves as a general partner at Dorilton Ventures and holds board seats across several technology companies.
LinkedInThe funding supports the development of optical networking technology designed to remove electronic switches from data centre cores.
"A year ago, we were proving the physics; today, we’re proving the business. Our collaboration with AMD has moved from concept to deployment to a system an order of magnitude larger, and the data proves this is already driving performance increases at pace,"
Plural led the Series A round to help the London based startup expand its team and scale its super-brain solution.
"This funding is yet another milestone for Oriole following a year of rapid pace and growth. This is a booming market desperate for solutions and our ambition is to create an ecosystem of photonic networking that can reshape this industry by solving today's bottlenecks and enabling greater competition at the GPU layer. Building on decades of research, we're paving the way for faster, more efficient, more sustainable AI."
The seed round was co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton
"AI computational needs are increasing by 10 times every 18 months. This leads to distributed training and inference across large numbers of xPUs. Collective data movement across the servers in the data centre becomes a bottleneck which in turn limits the training and inference completion time. This requires a fundamental shift in the co-design of next generation networked systems."
The oversubscribed round was co-led by Dorilton Ventures and Molten Ventures to support headcount growth.
"Our vision is to create a world in which humans can trust machines with the greatest challenges in the economy, society, and healthcare. Our customers are seeing transformative results with our no-code platform and we now have the resources to bring our platform to everyone."
