Volantis Secures $88M Series A to Scale AI Inference With Optical Memory Interconnects

Volantis, a semiconductor startup, raised $88 million in a Series A funding round co-led by prominent investor Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures to deploy photonic technology that addresses a critical bottleneck in large-scale AI inference. The round also included participation from Kleiner Perkins chair John Doerr, Susa Ventures, VXI Capital, and Triatomic Capital, with angel investors including Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao, Sam Altman, Google's Jeff Dean, and SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel. The funding brings Volantis' total capital raised to $97 million.