Salience Labs Raises $125 Million Series B Led by Bullhound Capital
Summary
Salience Labs raises $125 million in a Series B led by Bullhound Capital, with Intel Capital and AMD Ventures joining. The company says its 64-port all-optical photonic switch, shown at ECOC 2026, cuts latency and power use in AI data centers. The money funds volume manufacturing and denser 128-port and 256-port switches now under development.
Key Points
- Cignal AI forecasts the optical circuit switching market will exceed $8 billion by the end of the decade, according to data cited by Salience Labs.
- SBI Group, Hudson River Trading and British Business Bank join as new investors alongside returning backers Applied Ventures and Oxford Science Enterprises.
- Chief Executive Vaysh Kewada says optical circuit switching will play a critical role in AI data center networking.