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Semiconductors Series B Founded 2018

SCINTIL Photonics

SCINTIL Photonics is a semiconductor company developing dense multi-wavelength laser sources for AI datacenter optical interconnects. The company’s flagship product, LEAF Light, is the world’s first single-chip DWDM-native laser source, designed to push speeds beyond 1 terabit per second in a single fiber with half the power and one-tenth the latency of competing solutions. SCINTIL’s proprietary SHIP (Scintil…

📍 Grenoble, France · Photonics

Funding snapshot

Last roundSeries B
Amount$58M
Date9 September 2025
Total raised$78M
Team size38

About

SCINTIL Photonics is a semiconductor company developing dense multi-wavelength laser sources for AI datacenter optical interconnects. The company’s flagship product, LEAF Light, is the world’s first single-chip DWDM-native laser source, designed to push speeds beyond 1 terabit per second in a single fiber with half the power and one-tenth the latency of competing solutions. SCINTIL’s proprietary SHIP (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics) process technology leverages standard silicon photonics fabrication, using wafer-scale bonding of Indium Phosphide on Silicon to enable heterogeneous photonic IC production at scale in commercial foundries. The technology addresses the performance limits of copper cables in AI accelerator scale-up networks, providing the multi-wavelength light sources needed for co-packaged silicon photonic transceivers. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Grenoble, France, with operations across North America, SCINTIL has raised approximately $78 million in Series B funding. Investors include Nvidia, Applied Materials, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, NGP Capital, Bpifrance, EIC Fund, ITRI, and Innovacom.

Business model

Photonics > Photonic Integrated Circuits > Material Platforms > Silicon Photonics

Team background

College Wise > Princeton University

Institutional investors

Industrial Technology Investment Corporation ITRI Applied Materials Supernova Invest Innovacom Bpifrance Robert Bosch Venture Capital Credit Agricole Alpes Developpement Yotta Capital Partners NGP Capital Nvidia BNP Paribas Developpement AVITIC EIC Fund Nord Capital Partenaires

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