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Luminous Computing: Funding, Investors & Team (Oct 2026)

Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

www.luminous.com LinkedIn Mountain View, United States 101-250 employees
Artificial Intelligence Computer Hardware Software
Total raised
$105M
Rounds
1
Latest
Series A
Mar 2022

Luminous Computing has raised $105M across 1 funding round on record, the most recent a Series A of $105M announced in Mar 2022.

That round is above the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies tracked on FundedIQ over the last two years.

Luminous Computing Company Profile and Key Stats

Total funding raised
$105M
across 1 round on record
Funding rounds on record
1
Latest funding round
Series A
$105M in Mar 2022
Employees
101-250
reported band
Headquarters
Mountain View, United States

Latest funding round on record: Mar 2022.

Luminous Computing Funding Rounds

Date
Round
Amount
Series A
$105M

Luminous Computing Founders and Leadership Team

Name
Role
Contact
Marcus Gomez
CEO
—

No contact details are on record for this team yet.

Luminous Computing Funding Compared to Other Artificial Intelligence Startups

Segment
Companies
Median round
30,319
$7.7M
8,591
$15M

Luminous Computing's latest round of $105M is above the median round in Artificial Intelligence. Medians cover the last 24 months of disclosed rounds.

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Luminous Computing Funding FAQs

What does Luminous Computing do?

Luminous Computing develops photonics chips to handle workloads required by the artificial intelligence industry. The company's product is an AI training and inference chip that fits the computing power of supercomputers into a single chip, allowing businesses to avoid major bottlenecks that traditional processors face. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.

How much funding has Luminous Computing raised?

Luminous Computing has raised $105M across 1 round on record. The most recent is a Series A of $105M announced in Mar 2022.

When did Luminous Computing last raise funding?

Luminous Computing's most recent funding round on record is a Series A of $105M, announced in Mar 2022.

Who is the CEO of Luminous Computing?

Marcus Gomez is listed as CEO at Luminous Computing.

Where is Luminous Computing headquartered?

Luminous Computing is based in Mountain View, California, United States.

How many employees does Luminous Computing have?

Luminous Computing is in the 101-250 employee band.

How does Luminous Computing's funding compare to other Artificial Intelligence startups?

Luminous Computing's latest round of $105M is above the $6.0M median round size for Artificial Intelligence companies on FundedIQ across 7,243 tracked companies over the last two years.

About FundedIQ's Luminous Computing 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 Luminous Computing is left off this page rather than filled in.

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