Lightmatter
UI/UX Design · Custom Software Development
$554Mtotal raised · 2 rounds on record
$400Mlatest round · Series D · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
200+team · employees, estimated range
30stories in the press
Overview
Lightmatter is a team of designers, developers, and strategists that build software applications to help the world's most promising health companies improve the lives of their patients.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$554M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$400M
Series D · Oct 2024 · 2 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
The money's age
Due for its next round
24 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
15/100
in the news
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Mar 31, 2025
Launched Lightmatter Unveils Passage M1000 Photonic Superchip, World's Fastest AI Interconnect · businesswire.com
Oct 16, 2024
Raised a round Series D $400M
May 31, 2023
Raised a round Venture round $154M
Jan 2002
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 7%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series D | Oct 2024 | $400M | — | reuters.com |
| Venture round | May 2023 | $154M | — | businesswire.com |
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
2/100
Hiring freeze
Open positions
0
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
91 days
faster than 13% of the market
Hiring Dynamics
-100%
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Lightmatter over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
5
Postings analysed
1
Stack modernity
85/100
Languages
Java
Python
Ruby
SQL
Databases
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Lightmatter Joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion and Powers Next-Generation AI Infrastructure with Photonic Interconnects - AOL
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Lightmatter Joins NVIDIA NVLink Fusion and Powers Next-Generation AI Infrastructure with Photonic Interconnects
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Photonic AI Acceleration - A New Kind of Computer
Lightmatter's breakthrough in photonic AI processing transforms AI acceleration, offering unmatched speed and energy efficiency for next-gen computing!
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Lightmatter releases new photonics technology for AI chips
Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips. Instead of moving information between computer chips as electrical signals, Lightmatter
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