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## Volantis raises $88M to develop photonic inference systems

DevFeed: [Volantis raises $88M to develop photonic inference systems](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/volantis-raises-88m-to-develop-photonic-inference-systems-63651.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/01/volantis-raises-88m-to-develop-photonic-inference-systems/>)

Author: Maria Deutscher

Published: 2026-10-01T22:45:13Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [SiliconANGLE](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/siliconangle.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [quantization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/quantization.md>), [InfiniBand](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infiniband.md>)

Tags: [a-1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a-1.md>), [agent](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-accelerator](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-accelerator.md>), [benefit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/benefit.md>), [chip](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chip.md>), [chiplets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chiplets.md>), [chips](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chips.md>), [data-center](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-center.md>), [funding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding.md>), [funding-round](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/funding-round.md>), [gpu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gpu.md>), [inference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/inference.md>), [infra](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infra.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [optical-interconnect](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/optical-interconnect.md>), [startup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/startup.md>), [the-latest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/the-latest.md>), [volantis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/volantis.md>)

### AI overview

Volantis raised $88 million to develop photonic inference chips intended to increase memory bandwidth for AI workloads. The company says its optical interconnect can support more memory chiplets, and plans to ship its A-1 data center inference appliance next year. It estimates the system can process up to 10,000 tokens per second with a 20-trillion-parameter model.

### Source excerpt

Volantis Inc. today announced that it has raised a $88 million funding round led by prominent angel investor Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures. The Series A deal also drew more than a half-dozen other participants. The group included Kleiner Perkins Chair John Doerr and Naveen Rao, the former head of Intel's artificial intelligence products group. [...] The post Volantis raises $88M to develop photonic inference systems appeared first on SiliconANGLE.

## Omni raises $120M in Series C to expand AI analytics platform

DevFeed: [Omni raises $120M in Series C to expand AI analytics platform](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/four-years-of-omni-82577.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://omni.co/blog/omni-series-c-funding>)

Author: Colin Zima

Published: 2026-04-23T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Omni Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/omni-blog.md>)

Topics: [semantic-layer](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/semantic-layer.md>), [AI Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-infrastructure.md>), [Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag.md>), [Data pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-pipelines.md>)

Tags: [2022](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2022.md>), [a-1](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/a-1.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [context-layer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/context-layer.md>), [cursor](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cursor.md>), [customer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customer.md>), [data-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-platform.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [dbt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dbt.md>), [define](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/define.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [investors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/investors.md>), [led](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/led.md>), [omni-analytics-series-c-funding-valuation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/omni-analytics-series-c-funding-valuation.md>), [series-c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/series-c.md>), [theory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/theory.md>), [valuation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/valuation.md>)

### AI overview

Omni says it raised $120 million in a Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation and grew ARR fourfold over the past year. The company describes its AI analytics platform, which uses a semantic layer to encode business definitions, govern data access, and provide context for AI-generated answers across dashboards, spreadsheets, SQL, and APIs.

### Source excerpt

Today, we've raised $120M in our Series C at a $1.5B valuation, led by ICONIQ with participation from existing investors Theory Ventures, First Round Capital, Redpoint Ventures, and GV.