Celestial AI

Santa Clara, CA Semiconductors & Hardware Acquired

Celestial AI develops Photonic Fabric, a hybrid photonic-electronic optical interconnect technology platform for disaggregated exascale compute and memory clusters. The platform delivers on-chip compute-to-compute and compute-to-memory links with >1.5 Tbit/s/mm2 package bandwidth, 25X greater than alternative technologies like co-packaged optics, enabling transformational performance advantages for AI and cloud data center architectures.

Acquired

Celestial AI has been acquired

Acquired by Marvell Technology Feb 2, 2026 $3.25B

This company is no longer available on our private secondary market.

Overview

Company data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Founded

2020

Total Funding

$844.6M

7 rounds

Latest Valuation

$2.5B

Mar 10, 2025

Funding

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

Total raised $844.6M across 7 rounds

Last updated 06-25-2026

DateRoundAmount RaisedValuationLead Investors
Mar 10, 2025 Series C1 $250M $2.5B Fidelity Management & Research Co.
Feb 25, 2025 Series C1 $250M $2.5B Fidelity Management & Research Co.
Mar 2024 Series C $175M U.S. Innovative Technology Fund

Valuation Trajectory

Funding data and valuation marks are estimates and may be incomplete, stale, erroneous, or revised.

$2B Celestial AI

Entry · Series C1

$2.5B

Feb 2025

Celestial AI today

$2.5B

Mar 2025 · latest mark

Celestial AI multiple

1.0x

valuation uplift since first round

Y-axis is logarithmic. Hollow dots = estimated valuations. Does not represent realized investor returns.

Leadership

  • David Lazovsky

    Founder and CEO

    LinkedIn
  • Preet Virk

    Co-Founder and COO

  • Michelle Tomasko

    Co-Founder

Competitors

Competitor list is illustrative and may be incomplete, stale, or erroneous.

  • Broadcom

    Provides optical interconnect and networking solutions for data centers

  • Nvidia

    Develops AI accelerators and high-speed interconnect technologies (NVLink, InfiniBand)

  • Intel

    Produces semiconductors and optical interconnect technologies for data centers

  • Inphi

    Develops high-speed analog and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions (acquired by Marvell in 2021)

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