Polaris leverages patented material and design innovations to offer the highest speed, most energy efficient integrated photonics products to the communications and computing industries. The funding round was led by Rhapsody Venture Partners and garnered support from new investor Buff Gold Ventures as well as pre-seed investor, M Ventures. As part of this milestone, Bernard Lupien of Rhapsody Venture Partners will join Polaris' Board of Directors.

Polaris Electro-Optics believes that overcoming society's greatest challenges requires mastery of the creation, movement, and use of information. The company is mastering the movement of information by leveraging patented material and design innovations to offer the highest-speed, most energy-efficient integrated photonics products to the communications and computation industries. Polaris Electro-Optics' goal is to define the standard for moving information.