# Salience Labs funding rounds and investors

As of 14 Oct 2026, Salience Labs has raised $166.5M across 3 verified rounds on record; latest: $125 million Series B led by Bullhound Capital, announced 14 Oct 2026.

A leader in photonic chips targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure

Website: http://www.saliencelabs.ai  
Headquarters: Oxford, England  
Page: https://fireround.dev/companies/saliencelabs.ai

## Verified rounds

| Announced | Round | Amount | Lead investors | Other investors | Sources |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-14 | Series B | $125 million | Bullhound Capital | Intel Capital, AMD Ventures, SBI Investment, Hudson River Trading, British Business Bank, Applied Ventures, Oxford Science Enterprises, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Silicon Catalyst Ventures | [saliencelabs.ai](https://www.saliencelabs.ai/salience-labs-125-million-series-b-funding), [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20261014617850/en/Salience-Labs-Secures-%24125-Million-in-Series-B-Funding-to-Scale-Photonic-Networking-Chips-for-AI-Datacenter-Infrastructure), [siliconangle.com](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/salience-labs-raises-125m-in-funding-after-showcasing-worlds-most-advanced-fully-optical-circuit-switching-tech) |
| 2025-02-07 | Series A | $30 million | ICM HPQC Fund, Applied Ventures | Braavos Partners, Oxford Sciences Enterprises, Cambridge Innovation Capital, Silicon Catalyst Ventures, Jalal Bagherli | [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250207290130/en/Salience-Labs-Closed-Series-A-Round-Led-by-Applied-Ventures-and-ICM-HPQC-Fund) |
| 2022-05-12 | Seed | $11.5 million | Cambridge Innovation Capital, Oxford Science Enterprises | Yew Lin Goh, Oxford Investment Consultants, Silicon Catalyst Ventures, Goh Family Office in Singapore, Jalal Bagherli, Deeptech Labs | [businesswire.com](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220512005064/en/Salience-Labs-Raises-%2411.5-Million-Seed-to-Develop-Ultra-High-speed-Chips-Using-Photonics-for-AI-Applications), [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/12/this-startup-hopes-photonics-to-will-get-us-to-ai-systems-faster) |

Source: Fireround (https://fireround.dev), an open-source funding feed. Each round is checked against the pages listed with it.