Seed · Hardware & Semiconductors · Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 2023 · 11–50 employees
Lightium is Europe's first production-grade thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) foundry providing mass-production photonic chips for data centers, telecommunications, quantum computing, and AI applications. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Amir Ghadimi, Dr. Frédéric Loizeau, and MIT professor Dirk Englund, the company offers a proprietary manufacturing platform enabling ultra-high-speed data transmission with reduced energy consumption. Lightium raised USD 7 million in seed funding in September 2024, led by Vsquared Ventures and Lakestar, to accelerate commercialization and expand manufacturing capabilities.