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Salience Labs

Early-stageData & InfrastructureResearch
Headquarters
Oxford
UK presence
UK headquartered

An Oxford photonic-chip company tackling the data centre's power problem with light. Salience builds optical circuit switching (OCS) chips that move data between computers as light rather than electrical signals, cutting the power and delay of shuttling data around — so more of a data centre's limited electricity can go to running AI models.

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£94M raised across 1 round we've tracked.

  1. 20 October 2026