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Lumentum

Milpitas, California, United States, North America

Overview

Lumentum is a market-leading manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and commercial laser customers worldwide.

Total investments
1
Lead investments
0
Investments · 12mo
1
Active investors
8

Sector focus

  • Optical Communication
  • Semiconductor
  • Telecommunications
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Investment portfolio

  • Eliyan

    Participated · Series C · Jul 2026

    Eliyan develops advanced connectivity technologies including silicon-proven NuLink™ PHYs and NuGear™ chiplet families that target I/O, memory-expansion and power-efficiency challenges in modern compute infrastructure. The company is expanding into optical interconnect to complement its existing electrical interconnect portfolio and to support heterogeneous, co-packaged, and bandwidth-intensive compute fabrics. Eliyan positions its platform to span intra-package electrical interconnects through system-level optical fabrics for scale-up and scale-in AI networks. The company is led by CEO and Co-Founder Ramin Farjadrad and is based in Santa Clara, California. Financially, Eliyan raised $145 million in a Series C at a $1 billion valuation. It plans to use the new capital to accelerate product and interconnect development, broaden ecosystem partnerships, and scale manufacturing.

Team

  • Vince Retort

    Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

  • Iain Derrington

    Firmware Engineer

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  • Jae Kim

    SVP, General Counsel

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  • Ralph Loura

    Senior Vice President IT and Chief Information Officer