Lumai is an Oxford-based start-up focussed on the development of optical computing solutions for machine learning. With the modern-day AI revolution coming with ever-increasing computational demands, optical computing offers orders of magnitude improvements in speed and power efficiency over traditional digital electronics. Lumai spun out of the world-leading experimental optics research group of Professor A.I. Lvovsky with the vision of developing end-to-end all-optical neural networks where the information flow and calculations are minimally reliant on electronic processing.
Location: United Kingdom, England, Oxford
Employees: 1-10
Total raised: $1.33M
Founded date: 2022
Investors 1
| Date | Name | Website |
| 17.02.2023 | Runa Capit... | runacap.co... |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 16.02.2023 | Grant | $1.33M | - |
Mentions in press and media 3
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 09.09.2023 | Intel Ignite’s Inaugural UK Cohort: Meet the 10 Outstanding ... | Intel® Ignite, Intel Corporation’s acceleration program for early-stage deep tech startups, reveals ... | startuprep... |
| 16.02.2023 | Oxford University spinout Lumai secures £1.1m Innovate UK Sm... | - Oxford start-up to bring optical neural networks to the UK market, which can be 1000x faster than ... | realwire.c... |
| 15.02.2023 | Lumai lands £1.1m grant to achieve ‘world’s fastest computat... | Today the UK government’s national innovation agency — Innovate UK — has awarded a £1.1m grant to Ox... | sifted.eu/... |