OpenLight
Builds silicon photonics chips and PDK tools for AI, telecom, and quantum computing markets
$50MSeries A1
Role not disclosedMV
Matter Venture Partners
mattervp.com ↗Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionEnterprise software
Matter Venture Partners backs HardTech businesses combining advanced science and engineering with hardware and software.
Investment approach
The Silicon Valley firm works with founders on early customers, business models, manufacturing and technology scale-up. Its stated approach draws on operating and investment experience in technically demanding products.
Activity recorded by RoundOS
RoundOS records include Delos Data’s inference infrastructure, TYLsemi’s chiplets, OpenLight’s silicon photonics and Eridu’s AI-networking systems. Rhoda AI and ChipAgents add examples in robotics and semiconductor-design software.
These examples describe financings recorded in RoundOS, rather than the investor’s complete portfolio.
Sources
- Rounds participated in
- 4
- Confirmed lead rounds
- — 4 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 4 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $774M 4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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Rounds
4 in this selectionEridu
Develops purpose-built networking silicon and systems for AI data centers and hyperscalers
$200MSeries A
Role not disclosedRhoda AI
Builds robotic intelligence for real-world environments using video-predictive control
$450MSeries A
Role not disclosedChipAgents
ChipAgents develops AI tools that turn chip specifications and code into RTL, verification assets and root-cause analysis.
$74MSeries A
Role not disclosed