Overview
- The oversubscribed Series A brings total funding to $118 million, with participants including Carbon Direct Capital, Aramco Ventures, Bosch Ventures, Tectonic Ventures, Space Capital, and others per a corrected release.
- Neurophos will expand its North Austin headquarters, hire about 80 local employees, and open a new engineering site in San Francisco to support early customer demand.
- The company is developing an optical processing unit that integrates over one million micron‑scale photonic elements, which it says can deliver up to 100x the performance and energy efficiency of leading chips.
- New capital will accelerate an integrated photonic compute system with datacenter‑ready OPU modules, a full software stack, and early‑access developer hardware, with initial systems expected in early 2028 and a production ramp later that year.
- Founded in 2020 by Dr. Patrick Bowen and Dr. Andrew Traverso out of Duke University, Neurophos remains early‑stage with roughly 20 to 30 employees and a team drawn from major chip and AI companies.