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We’re excited to share that Socratic Partners has invested in Polaris Electro Optics‘s $50mm Series B, led by Walden Catalyst Ventures with participation from Cambium Capital, Knollwood, HRT, KDT, M Ventures, Rhapsody

September 16, 2026

Series B led by Walden Catalyst Ventures will bring the company’s FenGlass™ modulator platform to production for next-generation optical interconnects Polaris Electro-Optics, Inc. today announced $50 million in new financing to bring

September 15, 2026

We’re excited to share that Socratic Partners has led Delos Data’s Series A, and Christian Gallagher, General Partner and Co-Founder at Socratic Partners, will be joining the board. We spent a long

September 15, 2026

Raised over $100M from Matrix, Playground, Socratic Partners, Capricorn’s Technology Impact Fund, Matter Venture Partners, IAG, and industry luminaries to launch Delos Nonstop AI Introduces the Nonstop AI Data Interface, delivering 10x

September 15, 2026

Socratic Partners portfolio company strengthens commercial leadership as it brings next-generation AI networking infrastructure to market Eridu, the AI networking company building a clean-sheet switching architecture designed from the ground up for

August 3, 2026

Eridu founders Drew Perkins and Omar Hassen explain why legacy networking creates a bottleneck in AI data centers, severely wasting GPU investments. AI data centers are burning through billions of dollars in

May 15, 2026

Summary Santa Clara-based nEye.ai raised $80 million in Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures, with CapitalG, M12, and Socratic Partners, bringing total funding to $152 million. The company will scale manufacturing

April 29, 2026

Frontier networking solution, purpose-built for AI, delivers order-of-magnitude leap in performance and scalability Eridu, the pioneer advancing the frontier in AI networking, today announced that it has raised more than $200M in

March 12, 2026

Open OCS to deliver high-performance AI Cluster Networking The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP), the nonprofit organization bringing hyperscale innovations to all, today announced the formation of a new Optical Circuit Switching

July 21, 2025

Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020 Silicon photonics startup nEye Systems has closed a $58 million funding round. The Series B round was led by CapitalG and saw participation from

April 11, 2025