Solinide closes €4M to commercialise photonic chips for AI data centres

Swedish deeptech company Solinide Photonics has successfully raised €4 million in seed funding to commercialise its innovative silicon nitride photonic integrated circuit technology. The round of investment was co-led by Navigare Ventures and PSV Hafnium, with additional participation from Chalmers Ventures, Turbine Capital, Norrsken Evolve, and Almi Greentech Fund.

Solinide, a spin-out from Chalmers University of Technology, specializes in photonic chips and microcomb technology for optical interconnects, addressing the increasing demand for high-bandwidth connections in AI data centres. By replacing multiple laser sources with a single chip capable of generating dozens of precise wavelengths of light simultaneously, Solinide's technology reduces power consumption, cost, and physical footprint while enabling more data to travel through each optical fibre.

The company's microcomb technology has already demonstrated the performance required for data centre links and has been integrated into a rack-mounted system, with plans for commercial readiness and real-world deployment.

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