Aylight

Raised $5.1M in a Pre-Seed round, announced 7 July 2026.

Round

Aylight raised €4.5M in pre-seed funding to reinvent the laser behind AI's optical bottleneck.

Amount
$5.1M
Stage
Pre-Seed
Announced
7 July 2026
Leads
Elaia, Swisscom Ventures
Other investors
Verve Ventures, Plug and Play
Use of funds
Developing first semiconductor-foundry prototypes and expanding the research and development team.
Checked
Amount and date matched across 2 press sources

Company

Develops lasers aimed at the optical bottleneck limiting AI data center performance.

Based in
Zürich
Founded
2025
Sector
AI
Website
aylight.io ↗

Founders

Sources and links

Sources
Aylight raises €4.5M pre-seed to reinvent the laser behind AI's optical bottleneck - Startupticker news.google.com
Aylight Raises €4.5 Million Pre-Seed To Address AI’s Optical Bottleneck - Pulse 2.0 news.google.com
Website
aylight.io ↗
LinkedIn
Bahareh Marzban ↗, Dmitry Kazakov ↗
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