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Lightmatter
60 State Street
Boston, MA 02109
Phone: 857-244-0460
https://www.lightmatter.ai/

Lightmatter was founded in 2017 by Dr. Nicholas Harris, Darius Bunandar, and Thomas Graham at MIT. The photonic processor technology that underlies Lightmatter was developed over a four year span at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics. The founders of Lightmatter, along with other competition participants, won the 2017 Harvard President's Innovation Challenge and the MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition.

Key Contact
Name
Nicholas Harris
Title
CEO
Funding Events

Date
Amount
Type
Investors
Valuation
02/05/18 $11,000,000 Series A Matrix Partners
Spark Capital
undisclosed
05/06/21 $80,000,000 Series B GV
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Matrix Partners
SIP Global Partners
Spark Capital
Viking Global Investors
undisclosed
05/31/23 $154,000,000 Series C Fidelity Management & Research Company
GV
HPE Pathfinder
SIP Global Partners
Viking Global Investors
undisclosed
12/19/23 $155,000,000 Series C-2 GV
Viking Global Investors
$1,200,000,000
01/09/24 undisclosed Series C-2 SIP Global Partners
$1,200,000,000