{"id":91611,"date":"2019-06-04T07:22:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/bill-gates-neo-gigafund-backing-luminous-in-photonics-supercomputer-moonshot"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:22:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T14:22:32","slug":"bill-gates-neo-gigafund-backing-luminous-in-photonics-supercomputer-moonshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/bill-gates-neo-gigafund-backing-luminous-in-photonics-supercomputer-moonshot","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, NEO, Gigafund backing Luminous in photonics supercomputer moonshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-neo-gigafund-backing-luminous-in-photonics-supercomputer-moonshot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It\u2019s a moonshot and yet, the young company already has a number of high-profile investors willing to bet on the prospect.<\/p>\n<p>The company has raised $9 million in a seed round led by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/bill-gates\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"bill-gates\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates,<\/a> NEO\u2019s Ali Partovi and Luke Nosek and Steve Oskoui of Gigafund.<\/p>\n<p>The round also attracted other new investors, including <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/travis-kalanick\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"travis-kalanick\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Kalanick\u2019s<\/a> fund 10100, BoxGroup, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/uber\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"uber\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uber<\/a> CEO <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/person\/dara-khosrowshahi\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"person\" data-entity=\"dara-khosrowshahi\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dara Khosrowshahi,<\/a> and Emil Michael as well as pre-seed investors Class 5 Global, Joshua Browder, Ozmen Ventures, Schox Investments and Third Kind Venture Capital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/04\/bill-gates-neo-gigafund-backing-luminous-in-photonics-supercomputer-moonshot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It\u2019s a moonshot and yet, the young company already has a number of high-profile investors willing to bet on the prospect. The company has raised $9 million in a seed round [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}