Axalume was founded in 2017 to develop energy-efficient integrated electronic and photonic ICs. The company has roughly half a dozen employees and has raised roughly $1M in grant funding.

Photons are the best choice for fast communications, especially at high-data transfer rates and over distance. Axalume’s integrated electronic and photonic chips will enable data communication links with breakthrough density and power efficiency. Axalume enables lower costs at higher speeds through more closely integrated optics and electronics and by eliminating redundant electrical/optical conversion steps.

Axalume has developed patented technologies that combine silicon photonic circuits with silicon electronics to create energy-efficient photonic circuits, tunable laser sources, and control electronics for data centers and high-performance computing and networking systems.

In 2021, Axalume signed an exclusive agreement with Oracle to license Oracle’s silicon photonics patent portfolio. Under this license agreement, Axalume will have exclusive rights to manufacture, market, distribute, sell and support its silicon photonics services and products worldwide and to develop new products for data center switching and computing applications.

Ashok Krishnamoorthy, CEO (formerly Chief Technologist, Photonics at Oracle, Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and founder and CEO of AraLight, a Bell Labs VCSEL technology spinoff)

Abe Yayla, VP, IC Design (formerly Co-founder and former VP Engineering of Innocomm Wirelesss)

Shimon Muller, Chief Architect (formerly a Distinguished Engineer and Architect at Oracle and Sun, also architect at Enfabrica)