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Funding and backers

Total raised
$30M
1 round on record
Latest round
$30M
Venture round · Sep 2016 · 10 yr ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+2 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Oak Investment Partners
The money's age
Long since its last round
120 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
27/100
hiring for its size
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
Dec 7, 2020 Partnership Phononic and Fabrinet Partner to Scale Global Production of High-Performance Thermoelectrics · Nasdaq Sep 12, 2016 Raised a round Venture round $30M · TechCrunch
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Sep 2016 $30M — TechCrunch
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Phononic, Inc. its site
Backed byfrom the funds' portfolios and accelerator catalogs
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Overview

Phononic delivers solid state cooling for AI data centers: dynamic thermal control, rapid ROI. Networking leader for 1.6T, 3.2T, CPO & NPO.

News

News Nature 2 years ago
Phononic switching of magnetization by the ultrafast Barnett effect
The historic Barnett effect describes how an inertial body with otherwise zero net magnetic moment acquires spontaneous magnetization when mechanically spinning1,2. Breakthrough experiments have recently shown that an ultrashort laser pulse destroys the m
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News ScienceDaily 4 years ago
Researchers find topological phenomena at high, technologically relevant frequencies
A new study describes topological control capabilities in an acoustic system at high technologically relevant frequencies. This work has implications for applications such as 5G communications and quantum information processing.
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Press release Nasdaq 6 years ago
Phononic and Fabrinet Partner to Scale Global Production of High-Performance Thermoelectrics
Solid-State Cooling and Heating Innovator and Leading Global Optical Component Manufacturer Establish Partnership to Meet Explosive Market Demand. DURHAM, N.C.& BANGKOK, Thailand---- To support the growing demand from optical communications, 5 G mobile, a
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News CNBC 7 years ago
Keeping cool: Phononic has a new take on refrigeration and a new partnership with Unilever
CNBC Disruptor company Phononic is reinventing the refrigerator, among other things. And it's already starting to pull in some big partnerships.
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News Nature 9 years ago
A chip-integrated coherent photonic-phononic memory
Controlling and manipulating quanta of coherent acoustic vibrations-phonons-in integrated circuits has recently drawn a lot of attention, since phonons can function as unique links between radiofrequency and optical signals, allow access to quantum regime
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News CNBC 9 years ago
Phononic CEO shares the key to his company's market penetration strategy
Jim Cramer spoke with Phononic CEO Tony Atti to see how his distruptive semiconductor company plays it cool.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Phononic over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
2
Postings analysed
2
Stack modernity
64/100
Languages
SQL
Developer tools
Microsoft Excel
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
28/100
Slowing
Open positions
3
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~1 days
09/30/2026
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.
Operations
50% ▲
Industrial Engineering
50% ▲

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Durham
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Durham United States
Regional office
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Nonthaburi Thailand
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations
seen since Sep 2026 job postings

Financials

Total raised
$30M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2016 $30M Details