About Us
Our mission:
Rapidly innovate in photonics and connectivity to enable the massive scaling of AI infrastructure.

Our story
At Lumilens, our team has spent decades designing the optical and silicon platforms that defined how data moved across the cloud and the Internet. But as AI workloads have exploded, electrical and legacy optical interconnects have reached their limits.
So, we set out to build a new, photonics-based foundation for AI infrastructure and data centers. For both scale out and scale up architectures.
But designing next-gen AI connectivity is not enough – you have to build it...smart. Lumilens has invested in cutting-edge, custom robotics and AI-optimized production processes.
Our leadership team
The Lumilens leadership team brings deep experience in both photonics engineering and system-level infrastructure design from Cisco, Juniper, Meta, Lumentum and Coherent.
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Ankur Singla
CEO & founder

Ritesh Kapahi
VP/GM India & founder

Samuel Liu
VP Products & founder

Dave Friedman
VP Operations & founder

Ted Schmidt
CTO & founder

Harish Devanagondi
VP Engineering, Silicon

Weich Fang
VP Manufacturing & Ops

Jason Liow
VP Silicon Photonics

Ying Huang
VP Silicon Photonics
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Samira Naraghi
CBO

Neera Patel
CFO

Mark Weiner
CMO

Visionary investors
Lumilens is backed by leading venture capital investors.





