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Celestial AI

AI · Sunnyvale, United States · Founded 2020

Developing a proprietary technology platform which enables the next generation of high-performance computing solutions MoreLess

Celestial AI is a startup that operates in the high-performance computing market, specifically in the realm of hyperscale data centers. The company has developed a unique technology known as Photonic Fabric™, an optical compute interconnect that significantly improves the performance and economics of memory sharing.

The company's technology can reduce total DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) requirements by up to 35%, representing billions of dollars in data center DRAM spend annually. This is achieved by using optical interconnects, which not only reduce power consumption but also provide a growth path to bandwidth capacity. This is particularly important in the context of multi-tenant clouds, where lower latency memory pooling could bring savings of around 23%.

In addition to this, Celestial AI's technology also allows for the disaggregation of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) by running it over optics instead of PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) physical media. This is expected to become a real need within the next five years, as even compute units will require an optical interface to connect with their peers at the required bandwidth capacity.

The company's business model is based on providing this transformational optical connectivity capability to data centers, thereby unlocking the potential of Generative AI and other complex workloads. This could be a truly disruptive moment for advanced computing, and Celestial AI is at the forefront of this change.

Keywords: Celestial AI, Photonic Fabric™, optical compute interconnect, hyperscale data centers, memory sharing, DRAM requirements, optical interconnects, disaggregation of HBM, PCIe physical media, Generative AI.

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Celestial AI's talent

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Employees mapped 64 incl. 5 AI specialists
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Key operators 11 quality Hidden — book a demo/100
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Investors

22 investors on Celestial AI's cap table

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Seed 1 investor entered at this stage
Tyche Partners
Series A 12 investors entered at this stage
Khosla Ventures
Temasek
Koch Disruptive Technologies
The Engine
imec.xpand
M Ventures
Fitz Gate Ventures
Smart Global Holdings
IAG Capital Partners
Xora Innovation
Samsung Catalyst Fund
Porsche SE
Series B+ 9 investors entered at this stage
AMD Ventures
US Innovative Technology Fund
Engine Ventures
Fidelity Investments
Tiger Global
BlackRock
Lip-Bu Tan
Maverick Silicon
VentureTech Alliance

Global footprint

Where Celestial AI has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
6 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States82.6%
🇮🇳 India8.7%
🇩🇪 Germany2.2%
🇨🇭 Switzerland2.2%
🇮🇱 Israel2.2%
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Web traffic by country
5.6K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States32.1%
🇨🇦 Canada30.4%
🇮🇳 India17.9%
🇬🇧 United Kingdom12.5%
🇧🇷 Brazil3.6%
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Patent intelligence

$84k patent portfolio · 1 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$84k
<0.01% of valuation · 294× smaller than top peer Biren Technology ($25M)
1 active patent families
Where Celestial AI innovates Activation functionAlgebraic computingMechanical engineeringNetwork layerNeural network nn

Where Celestial AI concentrates vs peers

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Celestial AI

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