Tech Company Financing Transactions

Lumilens Funding Round

Lumilens, based in San Jose, raised $700 million in funding from Atreides Management LP, Bain Capital Ventures and Meritech Capital Partners.

Transaction Overview

Company Name
Announced On
8/6/2026
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$700,000,000
Round
Series C
Proceeds Purpose
The company intends to use the funds to expand its silicon, systems, software, process engineering, and high-volume manufacturing operations.

Company Information

Company Status
Private & Independent
Industry
Infrastructure
Mailing Address
2570 N. First St. 300
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
Phone
Undisclosed
Email Address
Overview
Our Mission: Rapidly innovate in photonics and connectivity to enable the massive scaling of AI infrastructure. At Lumilens, our team has spent decades designing the optical and silicon platforms that defined how data moved across the cloud and the Internet. But as AI workloads have exploded, electrical and legacy optical interconnects have reached their limits.
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Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Ankur Singla
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Chief Marketing Officer
Mark Weiner
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Chief Technical Officer
Ted Schmidt
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Founder
Ritesh Kapahi
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Vice President
Ying Huang
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Vice President
Jason Liow
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VP - Engineering
Harish Devanagondi
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VP - Manufacturing
Weich Fang
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VP - Operations
Dave Friedman
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VP - Product Management
Samuel Liu
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