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 invented new ways to use optics to probe quantum materials. Has a habit of finding the craziest solutions that consistently work, with explosive creativity paired with scientific rigour and 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 the 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 runs on infrastructure, and the infrastructure IS the bottleneck.
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 it 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 them. As a result, 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. We are building the photonics to use it for everything in between, and unlock the AI and quantum revolution.