Power Law company profile

Lightmatter

Semiconductors · Boston, United States · Founded 2017 Unicorn

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Valuation

$2.5–5B

Latest valuation · 2026

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Revenue

$100–500M

Latest reported FY

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Headcount

100–500

Current team size

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Featured in Unicorn$1B+ valuation tier · Power Law dataset 2026 $10B+ revenueThoroughbred · Power Law outcome

Developing ultra-fast photonic chips specialized for AI work

Investors

10 investors on Lightmatter's cap table

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Series A 3 investors entered at this stage

Spark Capital

Matrix Partners

Series B+ 7 investors entered at this stage

T. Rowe Price

Viking Global Investors

Lockheed Martin Global

SIP Global Partners

Fidelity Investments

Aliya Capital Partners

HP Enterprise

Global footprint

Where Lightmatter has talent and traffic

AI talent share

2.5% of workforce is AI talent
(8 of 318 staff)

Core AI51.57%

Other AI30.94%

Non-AI workforce31097.48%

Workforce by country

5 countries with
team presence

🇺🇸 United States93%

🇨🇦 Canada5.4%

🇧🇷 Brazil1%

🇬🇧 United Kingdom0.5%

🇩🇪 Germany0.5%

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Web traffic by country

60K monthly visits
across markets

🇺🇸 United States29.7%

🇮🇳 India14.7%

🇹🇼 Taiwan13.7%

🇩🇪 Germany9.5%

🏳️ Korea8.8%

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Patent intelligence

$51M patent portfolio · 96 active families

Estimated portfolio value

$51M

1.2% of valuation · 3.1× smaller than top peer Rockley Photonics ($156M)

96 active patent families

Where Lightmatter innovates Materials scienceMechanical engineeringIntegrated circuitPhysicsPhotonic integrated circuit

Where Lightmatter concentrates vs peers

Each axis is a top-10 topic across Lightmatter and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.

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