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QuiX Quantum, a start-up developing a photonic quantum processor, announced a €5.5 million Seed Round investment from PhotonDelta, FORWARD.one and Oost NL. QuiX, which…
UK-based Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) announed £38 million (US $46.45 million) in Series A funding for its work in quantum computing. The round was…
Prosimo, a start-up that offers an Application eXperience Infrastructure (AXI) platform for secure application delivery in multi-cloud environments, has secured $30 million in Series…
Lightbits Labs, a start-up based in San Jose, California focused on NVMe over TCP (NVMe/TCP) software-defined storage, raised $42 million in growth capital, bringing…
Scintil Photonics, a supplier of advanced silicon photonic integrated circuits with monolithically integrated lasers and optical amplifiers, secured €13.5M ($14.4M) in second round funding.…
Alkira launched Cloud Area Networking, a a full stack, edge-to-cloud enterprise-grade network with built-in routing and network services. Alkira auto-connects clouds, sites, users, and…
DataStax, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, secured $115 million for its real-time data platform. The funding comes on the heels of strong…
https://youtu.be/kX3L9hQ-ceU Alkira’s Amir Khan and Ahmed Datoo discuss the need for better enterprise networking solutions in the era of distributed applications residing in multiple…
Immuta, a start-up based in Boston, secured $100 million in Series E funding for its platform can automate access to data by discovering, securing,…
OpenLight, a start-up based in Santa Barbara, California, introduced its open silicon photonics platform with integrated lasers. OpenLight operates under the tagline, “Open. Integrated.…
EFFECT Photonics, which is a developer of integrated coherent optics solutions and a spin-off from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, opened…
Eridan, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, raised $46 million in financing for its MIRACLE RF Front End Module. Eridan has built a…
Pharrowtech, a start-up based in Leuven, Belgium, announced the closure of its €15 million Series A funding round to continue developing next-generation 60 GHz…
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