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Salience Labs raises $125M Series B for all-optical switches in AI data centers

Salience Labs raised an oversubscribed $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with AMD Ventures, Intel Capital, SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Business Bank among new investors. The company makes an all-optical, on-chip optical circuit switch built on silicon photonics. It showed a 64-port switch live at ECOC 2026 and plans 128-port and 256-port versions.

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

10:40
SiliconANGLE
Salience Labs, which develops specialized all-optical circuit switching tech for AI data centers, raised a $125M Series B led by Bullhound Capital
10:40
Tech.eu
tech.eu/2026/10/14/salience-labs-secures-125m-to-scale-photonic-chips-for-ai-data-centres/
10:40
Salience Labs
saliencelabs.ai/salience-labs-125-million-series-b-funding/
11:10
Startup.eu
startup.eu/investments/salience-labs-125-m-series-b-10-2026
12:10
FinSMEs
finsmes.com/2026/10/salience-labs-raises-125m-in-series-b-funding.html
14:10
RuntimeWire
runtimewire.com/article/salience-labs-125m-photonic-switches-ai-data-centers
16:40
Pulse 2.0
pulse2.com/salience-labs-raises-125-million-series-b-led-by-bullhound-capital-for-ai-data-center-photonic-networking-chips/

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