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419 Zurich-based Lightium bags €6.2 million to meet data center growth with advanced photonic chips

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Stefano De Marzo @ EU-Startups 3 place · 09/19/2024 03:45 EDT

Zurich-based Lightium bags €6.2 million to meet data center growth with advanced photonic chips

Lightium, a Swiss photonics startup, has raised €6.2 million in seed funding to turbocharge the performance of data centers and reduce their energy consumption. The financing, led by Vsquared Ventures and Lakestar, will accelerate the commercialisation of Lightium’s production-grade Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) foundry services. Founded by Dr. Amir Ghadimi, Dr. ...

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