Built by researchers at the intersection of photonics and computing

LightScale brings together expertise across photonics, materials, fabrication, large-scale systems, AI infrastructure, and quantum computing, with backgrounds at MIT, Harvard, University of Toronto, Broadcom, NVIDIA, Google, IBM, Amazon, and GlobalFoundries.

Leadership

Kabir Swain

Kabir Swain

Founder & CEO

Manel Baradad

Manel Baradad

CTO

Tracey Ooi

Tracey Ooi

COO

Board

David Garrett

David Garrett

Board Member

Elvis Sahakian

Elvis Sahakian

Board Member

Farhang Yazdani

Farhang Yazdani

Board Member

Advisors

Daniel Karl I. Weidele

Daniel Karl I. Weidele

Advisor

Also backed by angel investors and advisors who prefer to stay unnamed, for now.

Team leads

John P.

Materials Lead

Riddhi N.

Optical Architecture Lead

Sijie H.

Deployment Lead

Leon K.

Infrastructure Lead

Company Partnerships

Foundry

Undisclosed

Packaging & OSAT

BroadPak
ASE
Hana Micron

Optical partners

Corning
Ligentec

Integration

InWin
Xenowulf

Enterprise Partners

Gigabyte
Gigacomputing
C232
ASRock

NeoClouds

TBA