| # | Company | Location | Employees | Total Funding | Last Round | Last Funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Safaricom
Safaricom is a mobile network operator that offers internet connectivity, inform…
|
Nairobi | 5K - 10K | $3.2B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-11-25 |
| 2 |
Banglalink
Banglalink is a provider of telecommunication and internet broadband services.
|
Dhaka | 1K - 5K | $138.7M | Debt Financing | 2022-04-27 |
| 3 |
Zebra Technologies
Zebra Technologies delivers barcode printers, scanners, RFID, and mobile computi…
|
Lincolnshire | 5K - 10K | $2.5B | Post Ipo Debt | 2024-05-22 |
| 4 |
NewPhotonics
A fabless startup specialize in innovative Photonics Engines that revolutionize …
|
Tel Aviv-yafo | 11 - 50 | $28.6M | Grant | 2022-12-01 |
| 5 |
POET Technologies
POET Technologies develops a platform that powers innovation in integrated circu…
|
Toronto | 51 - 100 | $541.8M | Post Ipo Equity | 2026-01-22 |
| 6 |
Viasat
Viasat is a global communications company that offers satellite services.
|
Carlsbad | 5K - 10K | $3.2B | Grant | 2025-11-21 |
| 7 |
Lumen Technologies
Lumen delivers the most secure platform for applications and data to help busine…
|
Monroe | c 10001 max | $2.4B | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-09-04 |
| 8 |
Cailabs
Cailabs is a global leader in free-space optical communications for dual-use app…
|
Rennes | 101 - 250 | $116.2M | Series Unknown | 2025-09-15 |
| 9 |
Gigaclear
Gigaclear is a private company dedicated to building and operating Ultrafast bro…
|
Abingdon | 501 - 1K | $2.3B | Debt Financing | 2025-12-03 |
| 10 |
Zenlayer
Zenlayer operates as a software-defined network and services provider.
|
Diamond Bar | 101 - 250 | $102.0M | Series C | 2022-01-04 |
| 11 |
Scintil Photonics
Scintil Photonics is a fabless company that develops silicon photonic integrated…
|
Grenoble | 11 - 50 | $76.6M | Series B | 2025-09-09 |
| 12 |
Lattice Materials
Lattice Materials specializes in the manufacture of transmissive infrared optica…
|
Bozeman | 11 - 50 | $18.5M | Grant | 2025-12-22 |
| 13 |
M-FLY
M-FLY develops gimbals for unmanned systems, supporting aerospace and defense wi…
|
Tallinn | 11 - 50 | $2.7M | Seed | 2025-11-27 |
| 14 |
Oriole Networks
Oriole is a photonic networking company, developing disruptive technologies for …
|
London | 51 - 100 | $34.6M | Series A | 2024-10-21 |
| 15 |
Transcelestial Technologies
Transcelestial is a laser communications startup that provides point-to-point wi…
|
Singapore | 1 - 10 | $32.2M | Series Unknown | 2025-11-11 |
| 16 |
Ranovus
Ranovus is a provider of interconnect solutions for data center and communicatio…
|
Ottawa | 101 - 250 | $98.7M | Grant | 2025-08-20 |
| 17 |
Rayleigh Vision Intelligence(RVi)
RVi utilizes AI- driven display transfer tech for array based optical communicat…
|
Hsinchu | 11 - 50 | $2.9M | Seed | 2025-05-26 |
| 18 |
Eon Space Labs
Eon Space Labs is a manufacturing company that specializes in designing in obser…
|
Hyderabad | 1 - 10 | $1.2M | Seed | 2025-08-05 |
| 19 |
Quantifi Photonics
Quantifi Photonics is a telecommunications equipment supply company that special…
|
Auckland | 51 - 100 | $29.0M | Grant | 2024-07-01 |
| 20 |
Lightium
Lightium is a semiconductor manufacturing company that provides production-grade…
|
Z├╝rich | 11 - 50 | $10.1M | Seed | 2025-02-02 |
| 21 |
EFFECT Photonics
EFFECT Photonics is a highly vertically integrated, independent leader in integr…
|
Eindhoven | 51 - 100 | $148.1M | Series D | 2025-06-25 |
| 22 |
PicoJool
PicoJool developed a new class of pixel-level photonics that make optical links …
|
Palo Alto | 11 - 50 | $12.0M | Series Unknown | 2025-11-18 |
| 23 |
Atomica Corp
Atomica is the largest US MEMS foundry supporting the full spectrum of MEMS, inc…
|
Santa Barbara | 101 - 250 | $74.4M | Series C | 2022-11-08 |
| 24 |
DustPhotonics
DustPhotonics develops and manufactures pluggable optical modules and solutions …
|
Modi'in | 51 - 100 | $85.0M | Series B | 2024-02-21 |
| 25 |
Open Fiber
Italian telecommunications company which operates wholesale in the optical fiber…
|
Milan | 1K - 5K | $2.5B | Secondary Market | 2021-08-06 |
| 26 |
Giant Magellan Telescope Organization
The ground-based Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of a next class of "Extrem…
|
Pasadena | 51 - 100 | $205.0M | Grant | 2022-08-02 |
| 27 |
Ekinops
Ekinops is a leading provider of open, trusted and innovative network connectivi…
|
Lannion | 501 - 1K | $69.4M | Grant | 2023-02-28 |
| 28 |
CloudExtel
CloudExtel offers NaaS solutions to meet the issues posed by the exponential gro…
|
Mumbai | 101 - 250 | $46.4M | Debt Financing | 2025-11-27 |
| 29 |
North Ocean Photonics
North Ocean Photonics is a high-tech enterprise focusing on the field of micro-o…
|
Shanghai | 101 - 250 | $28.2M | Series C | 2025-12-31 |
| 30 |
Source Photonics
Source Photonics is a provider of innovative and reliable technology that enable…
|
West Hills | 1K - 5K | $230.0M | Series D | 2023-12-07 |
| 31 |
Aegiq
Defining the future of computing with full stack photonic quantum computers
|
Sheffield | 11 - 50 | $6.5M | Series A | 2024-05-01 |
| 32 |
mBryonics
mBryonics is building the internet in space with lasers.
|
Galway | 51 - 100 | $23.0M | Series A | 2024-02-28 |
| 33 |
Archangel Lightworks
Archangel Lightworks builds deployable laser communication systems for the space…
|
London | 11 - 50 | $4.7M | Grant | 2025-11-21 |
| 34 |
Orkuveitan
Orkuveitan is an energy and utility company that deals with data utility network…
|
Reykjavík | 501 - 1K | $290.1M | Debt Financing | 2025-11-17 |
| 35 |
ZJeagles Comsemi
ZJeagles Comsemi is the designer and producer of optical communication chips des…
|
Hangzhou | 51 - 100 | $139.6M | Series B | 2025-10-22 |
| 36 |
HRL Laboratories
HRL Laboratories pioneers the next frontiers of physical and information science…
|
Malibu | 1K - 5K | $2.0M | Grant | 2023-05-09 |
| 37 |
Alitheon
Alitheon is an optical AI software that can identify and authenticate physical o…
|
Bellevue | 11 - 50 | $30.7M | Series A | 2022-09-20 |
| 38 |
Phosio Corporation
Phosio Corporation creates materials used to deposit metal oxides at low tempera…
|
Corvallis | 1 - 10 | $1.7M | Seed | 2025-10-01 |
| 39 |
Vertilite
Vertilite provides high power and high-speed vertical-cavity surface-emitting la…
|
Changzhou | 11 - 50 | $107.9M | Series C | 2024-05-06 |
| 40 |
Enablence
Enablence is a supplier of FTTH equipment for residential & business services & …
|
Ottawa | 51 - 100 | $116.3M | Post Ipo Debt | 2025-04-04 |
| 41 |
IceMos Technology
IceMos Technology offers thick film bonded silicon on insulator (SOI) wafers.
|
Belfast | 51 - 100 | $24.0M | Series E | 2025-04-02 |
| 42 |
KDPOF
KDPOF specializes in the development of technology for high capacity communicati…
|
Madrid | 11 - 50 | $69.7M | Grant | 2024-05-14 |
| 43 |
Bulk Infrastructure Group
Bulk Infrastructure Group is a leading provider of sustainable digital infrastru…
|
Oslo | 51 - 100 | $381.2M | Private Equity | 2024-06-06 |
| 44 |
FYLA
Fyla is Deep Tech laser technology company, bringing proprietary solutions for h…
|
Valencia | 11 - 50 | $9.7M | Private Equity | 2025-12-11 |
| 45 |
almohandez
Alloha Fibra provides fiber-to-the-home connectivity to contribute to the social…
|
São Paulo | 1K - 5K | $33.2M | Debt Financing | 2024-10-31 |
| 46 |
Hydromea
Automating submerged asset inspections with a remote underwater drone platform
|
Renens | 11 - 50 | $3.8M | Grant | 2023-05-23 |
| 47 |
D
Dingxin
Dingxin develops and supplies laser and photonic components used in optical comm…
|
Suzhou | — | $14.0M | Undisclosed | 2025-12-22 |
| 48 |
Zigge Technology
Zhige Technology develops, manufactures, researches, and sells AR optical displa…
|
Haidian | 1 - 10 | $56.1M | Series Unknown | 2026-03-24 |
| 49 |
STL
STL is an Indian manufacturer of optical fibers, telecommunication cables and po…
|
Pune | 1K - 5K | $119.5M | Post Ipo Equity | 2024-04-16 |
| 50 |
Astrape Networks
Astrape powers the future of datacenters: more bandwidth, less power.
|
Eindhoven | 11 - 50 | $10.7M | Seed | 2025-04-29 |