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Funding and backers
Total raised
$117.2M
2 rounds on record
Latest round
$110M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 9 mo ago
Team
22
US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2025 · +214% in a year
Hiring now
17
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
2
Silicon Catalyst, Space Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
9 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
42/100
hiring for its size, 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
Jan 22
Raised a round Venture round $110M · SiliconANGLE
2025
Team of 22 was 7 · US Form 5500 (plan participants)
Dec 18, 2023
Raised a round Seed $7.2M · Database Trends and Applications
2020
Founded
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Web presence
top 6%
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Hacker News stories
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Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | Jan 2026 | $110M | — | SiliconANGLE |
| Seed | Dec 2023 | $7.2M | — | Database Trends and Applications |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | Neurophos Inc. | SEC Form D |
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Patrick BowenExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Hod FinkelsteinExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Preston WooExecutive OfficerSEC Form D
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
Silicon Catalyst 
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Neurophos Enters Hypergrowth Phase After $110M Series A
/PRNewswire/ -- Neurophos, a leader in photonic AI chip technology, today announced it has nearly tripled in headcount since closing its $110M Series A round...
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/C O R R E C T I O N -- Neurophos/
/PRNewswire/ -- Neurophos, a leader in photonic AI chip technology, has raised $110 million in an oversubscribed Series A round, bringing total funding to $118...
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From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing
Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry's power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.
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Chip startup Neurophos gets $110M to replace electrons with photons and accelerate AI compute
Chip startup Neurophos gets $110M to replace electrons with photons and accelerate AI compute - SiliconANGLE
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Neurophos Secures $7.2 Million in Funding Round to Create Energy-Efficient Metamaterial-Based Optical AI Chips for Data Centers
Neurophos, a spinout from Duke University and Metacept Inc., announced it has raised $7.2M in a seed round to productize a breakthrough in both metamaterials and optical AI inference chips.Neurophos
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Neurophos over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
81
Postings analysed
18
Stack modernity
69/100AI adopter
Languages
Python44%
MATLAB22%
SystemVerilog22%
C++17%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch22%
NumPy17%
SciPy11%
Triton11%
Cloud & platforms
Linux28%
Azure17%
Hugging Face17%
Okta11%
AI & ML
LLM39%
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$265k
Typical range
$100k – $310k
Open positions
16
16
Jobs
Senior
6.3%
Staff
37.5%
Principal
18.8%
Architect
37.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 1 | $100k | $100k |
| Staff | 6 | $215k | $112k – $300k |
| Principal | 3 | $285k | $280k – $300k |
| Architect | 6 | $295k | $200k – $310k |
Highest paying role
Chief Engineer, Prototype System Integration and Experimentation
$310k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Neurophos
By role, level and city, against the market · 16 jobs with pay
People
Patrick Bowen
Executive Officer, Director
Hod Finkelstein
Executive Officer
Preston Woo
Executive Officer
Christopher Alliegro
Director
Nathan Kundtz
Director
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
37/100
Slowing
Open positions
17
1 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
43 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
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.
Semiconductors
20% ▲
Hardware
15% ▼
Security
10% ▼
Product
10% ▼
HR
10% ▲
Industrial Engineering
10% ▲
Activity Timeline
Added Statistical Process Control to stack
Oct 2026
Added PVD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Photolithography to stack
Oct 2026
Added Design of Experiments to stack
Oct 2026
Added ALD to stack
Oct 2026
Added Triton to stack
Oct 2026
Added TensorFlow to stack
Oct 2026
Added Post-training to stack
Oct 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack
Oct 2026
Added JAX to stack
Oct 2026
Added Diffusion Models to stack
Oct 2026
Added MATLAB to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
3
Countries
2
Busiest office
Austin
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Austin
United States
HQ
17 open roles 20 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 200-500 est. staff $253k Avg Salary
hires for Semiconductors, Hardware, Industrial Engineering
4120 Freidrich Ln #600
Sunnyvale
United States
Regional office
9 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 50-200 est. staff $270k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Semiconductors, AI/ML
Leuven
Belgium
Engineering / R&D
1 open roles 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff $112k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware
Jobs
$245k – $285k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 7+ years exp · Master's Degree · Austin
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SciPy
NumPy
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$84k – $111k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Leuven
Photolithography
PVD
ALD
Statistical Process Control
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$265k – $310k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 15+ years exp · PhD · Austin
Python
MATLAB
Quantization
Chips/EDA
Cadence Virtuoso
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$260k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 15+ years exp · PhD · Austin
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$185k – $215k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Austin
Python
MATLAB
Machine Learning
Chips/EDA
Cadence Virtuoso
Life Sciences
Design of Experiments
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$185k – $215k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Austin
Python
MATLAB
Simulink
AI/ML
Quantization
SciPy
NumPy
Chips/EDA
Cadence Virtuoso
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≈ $174k – $315k per year (Estimated) · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Austin
SystemVerilog
CI/CD
Chips/EDA
UVM
Formal Verification
Cadence Palladium
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$180k – $215k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin
AI Agents
LLM
TPU
Management
Jira
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$250k – $290k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin · Sunnyvale
Python
C++
SystemVerilog
SystemC
Quantization
ONNX
Pandas
NumPy
PyTorch
LLM
Mixture of Experts
Hugging Face
TPU
MLIR
Apache TVM
XLA
KV Cache
Chips/EDA
Verilator
UVM
Analytics
Matplotlib
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$210k – $250k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin · Sunnyvale
Python
vLLM
Triton Inference Server
SGLang
TensorRT
TensorRT-LLM
PyTorch
LLM
Mixture of Experts
CUDA
Triton
Hugging Face
NCCL
InfiniBand
NVLink
CUTLASS
Speculative Decoding
KV Cache
DevOps
GCP
Azure
AWS
HPC
Linux
Chips/EDA
Verilator
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$170k – $200k per year · Equity · Hybrid · Full-Time · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Austin · Sunnyvale
Python
Verilog
C++
SystemVerilog
SystemC
Quantization
PyTorch
LLM
Mixture of Experts
CUDA
Hugging Face
KV Cache
Chips/EDA
Verilator
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$225k – $300k per year · Equity · In office · Full-Time · Austin · Sunnyvale
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