Volantis Raises $88M Series A Funding

Volantis, a scalable solution to the memory bottleneck, enabling more than an order-of-magnitude increase in capacity and bandwidth, led by Tapa Ghosh and Roy Meade, has raised a Series A, led by Lachy Groom and Abstract, totalling $97M in funds raised to date, including from Sam Altman, Jeff Dean, Dylan Patel, John Doerr & others.

Volantis is developing an optical interconnect technology designed to enable models with over 10 trillion parameters to run at speeds of up to 10,000 tokens per second per user. The goal is to enable real-time AI inference, larger context windows, and coding agents that complete tasks in seconds rather than minutes.

Its optical fabric aims to overcome the trade-off between memory capacity and bandwidth, increasing both by more than 10x while lowering inference costs through memory pooling.

The technology uses custom integrated micro-VCSELs instead of external lasers and replaces traditional optical fiber to achieve higher bandwidth density.

The team brings experience from NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom, and Ayar Labs, having developed pioneering products in advanced packaging, silicon photonics, and optical interconnects.

𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐫 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐬: 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐬 helps technology companies build in India: two ways. Hire vetted remote engineers, product leaders, designers, and GTM professionals directly onto your team. Or partner with a proven development studio to design, build, and ship your product end-to-end. Learn More At: menlotimes.com/buildwerks