Ayar Labs Scoops Up $500M Series E Round
2026-03-03
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SAN JOSE, CA, Ayar Labs, the leader in co-packaged optics (CPO) solutions for AI scale-up, announced the closing of $500 million in Series E funding led by Neuberger Berman.
The company will use the funds to scale high-volume production and test capacity to accelerate the deployment of its CPO solution. This brings the company's total funding to $870 million and raises the company's valuation to $3.75 billion.
The round aligns premier capital investors with industry leaders across the AI and semiconductor ecosystem, reinforcing the market's support for Ayar Labs' technology leadership and production-ready CPO solution for AI scale-up. New investors include Alchip Technologies, ARK Invest, Insight Partners, MediaTek, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Sequoia Global Equities, and 1789 Capital. They join existing financial institutions such as Advent Global Opportunities, Boardman Bay Capital Management, IAG Capital Partners, Light Street Capital, and Playground Global, and existing strategic investors, AMD Ventures, and NVIDIA.
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure with the industry's first proven co-packaged optics (CPO) solution manufactured in partnership with the world's leading semiconductor ecosystem. By unlocking performance gains and reducing workload costs in a power-constrained environment, Ayar Labs' TeraPHY™ optical engines are key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up.
The round aligns premier capital investors with industry leaders across the AI and semiconductor ecosystem, reinforcing the market's support for Ayar Labs' technology leadership and production-ready CPO solution for AI scale-up. New investors include Alchip Technologies, ARK Invest, Insight Partners, MediaTek, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Sequoia Global Equities, and 1789 Capital. They join existing financial institutions such as Advent Global Opportunities, Boardman Bay Capital Management, IAG Capital Partners, Light Street Capital, and Playground Global, and existing strategic investors, AMD Ventures, and NVIDIA.
Ayar Labs is transforming AI infrastructure with the industry's first proven co-packaged optics (CPO) solution manufactured in partnership with the world's leading semiconductor ecosystem. By unlocking performance gains and reducing workload costs in a power-constrained environment, Ayar Labs' TeraPHY™ optical engines are key to unleashing next-generation AI scale-up.
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