Salience Labs is building a hybrid photonic-electronic chip for AI. We have designed a massively parallel, ultra-high throughput Photonic Tensor Processing Unit. Photonics allows data to be modulated at up to 100 GHZ, and allows for high levels of parallelization using multiplexing. We integrate this photonic unit into a SoC architecture designed to exploit its high throughput for AI inference. Salience Labs technology is based on decades of research collaboration between Oxford University and University of Münster, Germany.
Location: United Kingdom
Total raised: $11.5M
Investors 6
| Date | Name | Website |
| - | Silicon Ca... | siliconcat... |
| - | Oxford Inv... | oxfordinve... |
| - | Deeptech L... | dtl.vc |
| 25.02.2022 | Perivoli I... | perivoliin... |
| - | Oxford Sci... | oxfordscie... |
| 18.05.2023 | Cambridge ... | cic.vc |
Funding Rounds 1
| Date | Series | Amount | Investors |
| 12.05.2022 | Seed | $11.5M | - |
Mentions in press and media 5
| Date | Title | Description | Source |
| 12.05.2022 | CIC co-leads Salience Labs’ $11.5 million seed funding round... | Cambridge Innovation Capital co-leads Salience Labs’ $11.5 million seed funding round Funding will s... | cic.vc/new... |
| 12.05.2022 | Salience Labs Raises $11.5 Million Seed to Develop Ultra Hig... | Salience Labs has raised a seed round of $11.5 million to develop an ultra high-speed multi-chip pro... | aithority.... |
| 12.05.2022 | This startup hopes photonics will get us to AI systems faste... | The problem with waiting for quantum computing to bring in the next wave of AI is that it’s likely t... | techcrunch... |
| 12.05.2022 | Meet Salience Labs: The Oxford startup that chipped in $11.5... | The speed of AI computation doubles every 3.4 months, outpacing what standard semiconductor technolo... | tech.eu/20... |
| - | Meet Salience Labs: The Oxford startup that chipped in $11.5... | The speed of AI computation doubles every 3.4 months, outpacing what standard semiconductor technolo... | tech.eu/20... |