OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised $50M in a Series A extension, after raising $34M in August 2025 (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics)

<a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/silicon-photonics-startup-openlight-raises-additional-50m-in-extended-series-a-funding-round/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260429/i35.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/260429/p35#a260429p35" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Charlotte Trueman / <a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/">DatacenterDynamics</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/silicon-photonics-startup-openlight-raises-additional-50m-in-extended-series-a-funding-round/">OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised $50M in a Series A extension, after raising $34M in August 2025</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Startup designs custom application-specific photonic chips&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenLight has raised an additional $50 million in an extended Series A funding round &hellip; </p>