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Funding and backers

Total raised
$255M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$145M
Venture round · Jul 2026 · 2 mo ago
Hiring now
2
open roles
Backers
4
Plug and Play, Celesta
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · hiring slowed
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 29 Raised a round Venture round $145M Jul 24 Launched Eliyan Introduces NuLink-XD, a New Class of Power-Reach Configurable 224G PAM4 SerDes Enabling the Industry's Lowest-Power Electro-Optical Modules fo… · eliyan.com Jan 28 Raised a round Venture round $50M Mar 26, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $60M · led by Samsung Catalyst Fund · Pulse 2.0
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2026 $145M — reuters.com
Venture round Jan 2026 $50M — vcnewsdaily.com
Venture round Mar 2024 $60M Samsung Catalyst Fund lead, Tige lead Pulse 2.0
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Overview

Connected Intelligence at a fraction of total cost of ownership. Without the downsides of advanced packaging, you achieve higher number of cores, compute performance, test coverage, and yield.

News

Blog 2 months ago
Eliyan Featured on The Information's TITV
Thanks to the team at The Information for having us on the TITV show to discuss our recent fundraising, led by Seligman Ventures, and including new strategic investors Cisco Venture Labs and Lumentum, which puts us at status.
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Blog 3 months ago
The AI race built faster chips. Now the chips are too fast for their own wires.
Eliyan raised a $145m Series C at a $1bn valuation to fix the data bottleneck between AI chips, adding Cisco and Lumentum for its optical push.
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Press release 3 months ago
Eliyan Achieves Unicorn Status with $145 Million Series C to Advance Electro-optical Interconnects for AI Infrastructure
SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eliyan Corporation, a leader in foundational connectivity technologies enabling next-gene...
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Blog 3 months ago
Optical interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M in funding to solve the AI chip cluster connectivity crunch
Optical interconnect startup Eliyan raises $145M in funding to solve the AI chip cluster connectivity crunch - SiliconANGLE
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Press release 3 months ago
Eliyan Achieves Unicorn Status with $145 Million Series C to Advance Electro-optical Interconnects for AI Infrastructure
Eliyan's latest funding round, led by Seligman Ventures, values the company at $1 billion and includes new strategic investors Cisco Investments and Lumentum.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Eliyan over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
7
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
67/100
Languages
SystemVerilog
Perl
Python
TCL Scripting
Developer tools
Cadence Genus
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Practices & domains
HPC
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
2
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
10/11/2026
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
100% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Vancouver
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Vancouver Canada
HQ
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
seen since Aug 2026 job postings
Toronto Canada
2 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 100% engineering
hires for Hardware
seen since Aug 2026

Jobs

≈ $99k – $166k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 8+ years exp • Toronto • Vancouver
Python
SystemVerilog
Perl
TCL Scripting
HPC
Chips/EDA
Synopsys Fusion Compiler
Cadence Genus
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≈ $77k – $137k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Toronto • Vancouver
SystemVerilog
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Financials

Total raised
$255M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount Valuation
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $145M $1B Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $50M — Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $60M — Details