Oriole Networks
Optical Communications · LLM & Generative AI
$12.7Mtotal raised · 5 rounds on record
Venture roundlatest round · May 2026 · 5 mo ago
3backers · UCL Technology Fund, Albion
$1.1Mgrants · 1 grant · CORDIS
Overview
Discover PRISM, the full photonic network from Oriole Networks. Improve AI performance, cut energy use and simplify data centre architecture.
Funding and backers
Total raised
$12.7M
5 rounds on record
Latest round
Venture round
May 2026 · 5 mo ago
Team
51-200
employees, estimated range
Grants
$1.1M
1 grant · CORDIS
Backers
3
UCL Technology Fund, Albion
The money's age
Fresh money
5 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
in the news, fresh money
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
May 18
Raised a round Venture round
May 14, 2025
Launched Oriole Networks Unveils PRISM, the World's First Full-Photonic Network for AI · oriolenetworks.com
Aug 19, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 1, 2024
Won a grant $1.1M · CORDIS
Mar 2024
Website went live first capture in the Wayback Machine
Mar 27, 2024
Raised a round Seed $12.7M · DCDNoticias
Jan 24, 2024
Raised a round Venture round
Apr 14, 2023
Incorporated ORIOLE NETWORKS LTD · Companies House
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture round | May 2026 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Venture round | Aug 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
| Grant | Apr 2024 | $1.1M | — | CORDIS |
| Seed | Mar 2024 | $12.7M | — | DCDNoticias |
| Venture round | Jan 2024 | — | — | find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk |
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
| Legal entity | ORIOLE NETWORKS LTD | its site |
| Registered | 14 Apr 2023 |
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UCL Technology Fund 
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Oriole to Deploy World's First AI System with Pure Photonic Network to Supercharge Data Centers
Oriole will deploy the world's first large-scale AI system powered by a pure photonic network, and AMD Instinct GPUs and AMD EPYC CPUs, as part of the UK ARIA Scaling Inference Lab The system marks Oriole's first commercial deployment, set for wider indus
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Oriole Networks Announces PRISM Ultra: The One-Hop Photonic Network Fabric with 50 Exabit per Second Throughput
Built on PRISM's proven photonic foundation, PRISM Ultra unlocks unprecedented bandwidth per xPU and a flat one-hop fabric that scales to a million xPUs, far beyond the reach of electronic switching. Palo Alto, March 12, 2026 - Oriole today announced PRIS
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Oriole Networks Announces PRISM Ultra: The One-Hop Photonic Network Fabric with 50 Exabit per Second Throughput
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2025 in Review with James Regan: Building AI Networks of the Future
As 2025 draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share some of my reflections and insights on this past year. It's been an incredible ride for Oriole with enormous progress on both the engineering and commercial fronts. I'm immensely proud of how we
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Oriole Networks Unveils PRISM, the World's First Full-Photonic Network for AI
LONDON, May 14, 2025--Oriole Networks, a London-based photonic systems start-up, has announced its PRISM (Photonic Routing Infrastructure for Scalable Models) solution. PRISM is the world's first pure photonic switched network designed for data centers, h
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