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Avicena Tech: Funding, Investors & Team (Sep 2026)

Avicena Tech manufactures ultra-dense, ultra-low power petabit per second optical chip interconnects. It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs. Avicena’s ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.

www.avicena.tech LinkedIn Sunnyvale, United States 11-50 employees
Electronics Industrial Manufacturing Manufacturing Semiconductor B2B
Total raised
$90.0M
Rounds
2
Latest
Series B
May 2025

Avicena Tech has raised $90.0M across 2 funding rounds on record, the most recent a Series B of $65.0M announced in May 2025.

That round is above the $7.5M median round size for Consumer Electronics companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Avicena Tech Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$90.0M
across 2 rounds on record
Funding rounds on record
2
Latest funding round
Series B
$65.0M in May 2025
Employees
11-50
reported band
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, United States

Latest funding round on record: May 2025.

Avicena Tech Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series B
$65.0M
Series A
$25.0M

Avicena Tech raised $25.0M in a Series A announced in Aug 2022.

2.8 years later, a Series B of $65.0M was announced in May 2025.

Avicena Tech Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Rob Kalman
Founder
Locked
Bardia Pezeshki
CEO
Locked

Contact details for the Avicena Tech team: 2 of 2 have an email address on file.

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Avicena Tech Funding Compared to Other Consumer Electronics Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
29,722
$7.5M
4,289
$30M

Avicena Tech's latest round of $65.0M is above the median round in Consumer Electronics. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Avicena Tech Funding FAQs

What does Avicena Tech do?

Avicena Tech manufactures ultra-dense, ultra-low power petabit per second optical chip interconnects. It has been known for decades that optical interconnects have the potential to provide significant benefits even at lengths down to 1 millimeter and below. Silicon photonics, plasmonics, and other high-volume commercial technologies have reached a tipping point where they can be used to address critical chip-to-chip interconnect needs. Avicena’s ultra-dense, low-latency, low-cost, low-power optical interconnects revolutionize inter-chip communications and vastly improve the performance of systems that are hampered by legacy chip-to-chip interconnects.

How much funding has Avicena Tech raised?

Avicena Tech has raised $90.0M across 2 rounds on record. The most recent is a Series B of $65.0M announced in May 2025.

When did Avicena Tech last raise funding?

Avicena Tech's most recent funding round on record is a Series B of $65.0M, announced in May 2025.

Who founded Avicena Tech?

FundedIQ lists Rob Kalman (Founder) at Avicena Tech.

Who is the CEO of Avicena Tech?

Bardia Pezeshki is listed as CEO at Avicena Tech.

Where is Avicena Tech headquartered?

Avicena Tech is based in Sunnyvale, California, United States.

How many employees does Avicena Tech have?

Avicena Tech is in the 11-50 employee band.

How does Avicena Tech's funding compare to other Consumer Electronics startups?

Avicena Tech's latest round of $65.0M is above the $7.5M median round size for Consumer Electronics companies on FundedIQ across 1,547 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Avicena Tech Funding Data

FundedIQ tracks announced funding rounds and refreshes this profile every week. Round dates, stages and amounts are normalised to a single format, converted to US dollars, and de-duplicated: two records of the same round announced days apart are merged, and two genuinely different rounds are kept apart on the amounts they disclose. Amounts shown are the disclosed figures only — a round announced without a number is listed and excluded from the total rather than estimated.

Employee counts are reported bands, not exact headcounts. Founder and executive names carry the job title on record. Anything we do not hold for Avicena Tech is left off this page rather than filled in.

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