About us
Deepankur Thureja
Co-founder & CEO
PhD in Physics, ETH Zürich. Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, where he worked on quantum optics for next generation technologies. Has the habit of getting to the bottom of things: steady, Swiss rigour, and optimism that doesn't run out.
Gabriele Pasquale
Co-founder & CTO
PhD in Applied Physics and Materials Science and Engineering, EPFL. Postdoctoral researcher at Harvard, where he worked on novel optical probes for quantum materials. Has a habit of finding the craziest solutions, with explosive creativity paired with a sharp sense of humor.
Why we exist.
AI is arguably the most consequential thing humanity has ever built. Paired with quantum computing, it could solve problems that have always felt out of reach, from curing diseases to feeding the world. That future, as crazy as it sounds, is possible in our generation. But that future has to run on physical infrastructure, and today the infrastructure can't keep up with the progress. The infrastructure IS the bottleneck.
Today, that infrastructure runs on silicon. Light already carries the world's information, because it is the fastest medium we have and it barely loses energy over distance. But the moment that light reaches a silicon chip, we convert it into electrons. Every conversion burns power, adds latency, and throws off heat. A single AI prompt triggers thousands of these conversions, so we pay that tax billions of times a day.
We already trust light to cross oceans. The question is why we still give it up the moment it matters most.
Light already moves in and out of every datacenter. We are building the photonic fabric to preserve it in between and enable the AI and quantum revolution.