Solinide Photonics 🇸🇪
Commercialising photonic chips for AI data centres. Backed by Almi Invest GreenTech.
About Solinide Photonics
Solinide Photonics specializes in developing silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits that achieve over 60% optical conversion efficiency, enabling efficient optical interconnects for datacenters. Their technology utilizes a micro-comb photonics chip to replace multiple discrete lasers, facilitating co-packaged optics architectures that significantly reduce power consumption and footprint.
Solinide Photonics is a Sweden-based company founded in 2021, now around 9 people. It has raised $4.7M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as AI & ML.
Founded by Óskar Bjarki Helgason (Chief Technology Officer; Chalmers University of Technology), Marcello Girardi (Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer; previously Omnia srl Professional Advisor; Chalmers University of Technology), Alexander Grabowski (Design Engineer; Chalmers University of Technology).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Seed · AI (93 funds), Seed · DeepTech (80 funds), Seed · Climate & Sustainability (80 funds).
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Seed · €4M · Aug 2026
- Almi Invest — Almi Invest is the state-owned Swedish venture investor within the Almi Group and calls itself Sweden's most active startup investor. · cheques £75k – £300k
- Wallenberg Investments (Navigare Ventures) — Wallenberg Investments' Ventures unit was launched in 2021 as Navigare Ventures, a wholly owned Stockholm-based subsidiary of Wallenberg Investments AB.