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Hyperlight

675 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 301, Cambridge, MA, 02139, United States

Overview

HyperLight develops high-performance integrated photonics based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), commercialized as its TFLN Chiplet™ Platform. The platform targets a range of optical interconnect applications including data center pluggables, coherent datacom and telecom modules, and co-packaged optics, and offers products supporting 200G-per-lane operation with 400G-per-lane solutions now sampling. The company emphasizes ultra-high modulation bandwidth, CMOS-level drive voltage, and ultra-low optical loss to reduce power consumption at higher lane speeds. HyperLight has established a strategic manufacturing partnership with UMC and Wavetek for high-volume foundry production on both 6-inch and 8-inch wafers. With the $80 million Series C, the company plans to expand manufacturing capacity, accelerate customer qualification, scale its platform, and deepen partnerships across foundry, semiconductor, networking, and systems integration domains.

Total raised
$117M
Funding rounds
2
Latest round
Series C
Latest activity
Jun 2026

Industries

  • Electronics
  • Internet
  • Semiconductor
  • Software
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Recent funding

  1. Series C

    Jun 2026

    $80M

  2. Series B

    Sep 2024

    $37M

Team

  • Mian Zhang

    Founder & CEO

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  • Christian Reimer

    Co-Founder & Head of Product

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  • Cheng Wang

    Founder

  • Kevin Luke

    Co-Founder and Head of Custom Development

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