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What does it take to land venture capital for photonics-driven startups?
(L-R) Entrada Ventures' Alex Fang, co-founder and managing partner; Greg Fish, operating partner; and Eric Hall, managing partner....
Dec 7, 2023
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Anchore and Chainguard Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Supply Chain Security
The partnership delivers a "Start Safe, Stay Secure and Compliant" posture by uniting Chainguard's hardened container images with...
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d-Matrix Announces JetStream I/O Accelerators Enabling Ultra-Low Latency for AI Inference at Scale
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Kipu Quantum Unveils Quantum Feature Mapping to Improve AI Precision in Sensitive Domains
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Aug 14
Fixing A Broken System
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Jul 14
How Nectir is Leading the Charge for Responsible Classroom AI
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Jul 7
IonQ and Kipu Quantum Break New Performance Records For Protein Folding And Optimization Problems
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Jun 19
Coreshell Appoints Industry Veteran Young-Duk Kim as Executive Vice President of Manufacturing & Commercialization
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May 8
Quiet March for venture deals in photonics
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Apr 10
Prophetic Announces Completion of Seed Funding, Unlocking National Expansion
Portland based company closes seed funding led by Entrada Ventures with participation from SilverCircle and Progression Fund. Prophetic...
Apr 2
OpenTug Secures Strategic Investment Led by TMV to Amp Up the Barge Industry
SEATTLE, March 31, 2025 / PRNewswire / -- OpenTug, a pioneering maritime logistics software platform, today announced a $2.2 million...
Mar 31
Quantum Rings Now Available for NVIDIA CUDA-Q, Streamlining Quantum Simulation
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2025 / PRNewswire / -- Quantum Rings today announced the integration of their quantum simulation technology...
Mar 20
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American-made batteries
TechCrunch · March 18, 2025 The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just...
Mar 18
Coreshell Raises $24M To Commercialize the Lowest-Cost and Domestically-Sourced Lithium-Ion Battery Anode
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Mar 18
Kipu Quantum Commercializes Its Application for Large Optimization Problems on IBM’s Qiskit Functions Catalog
Application now available to members of the IBM Quantum Network including Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions, and research labs...
Mar 18
Quantum and optical interconnects led February venture deals
Multiple technical approaches for AI optical interconnect fabrics are emerging. Photonics VC Update is a monthly series to brief...
Mar 6
Founder, venture capital partner give advice on fundraising
L-R, Julie Henley, partner at Entrada Ventures and Kavitta Ghai, co-founder of Nectir AI, participate in a Feb. 3 panel on raising...
Mar 3
AI Assistants: Empowering Allies Or Risky Confidants?
Vinay Goel is CEO of Wald.ai . He was the Chief Digital Officer at JLL and led products at companies like Google, CheckPoint and Webroot....
Feb 28
Kipu Quantum and NYUAD Partner to Advance Quantum Research in the Middle East
KARLSRUHE, Germany, Feb. 26, 2025 — New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), through its Center for Quantum and Topological Systems...
Feb 26
Kapta Space Launches out of Stealth Mode to Develop the Next Generation of Advanced Spaceborne Radar Systems
Former Echodyne and Astranis Engineers Raise $5 Million to Field Advanced Spaceborne Radar Systems for National Defense and Commercial...
Feb 21
OpenTug Prioritizes BargeOS Suite with AI-Driven Feature Upgrades for 2025
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Feb 18
Oso Semiconductor Closes $5.2M Seed Round to Power the Next Generation of Phased Array Antennas in Satellite Communication, 5G and Radar Systems
The company’s novel, patent-pending microchips are ultra-low loss and can provide up to 4x improvement in efficiency compared to existing...
Feb 12
Early-stage European deals dominate photonics funding for January
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Feb 6
HTEC and AI Inference Hardware Startup, d-Matrix, Announce Strategic Partnership
HTEC announces partnership with d-Matrix, the creator of Corsair™, the world’s most efficient AI computing platform for inference in...
Feb 4
Quantum Advantage Has Already Been Reached For AI Applications
Quantum-powered AI has been shown to perform better in image classification and applying combinatorial reasoning optimization to...
Feb 3
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