# nEye.ai

> nEye.ai (nEye Systems) is a Santa Clara semiconductor company building optical circuit switches (OCS) on a single chip. By fusing MEMS with silicon photonics and CMOS at wafer scale, its flagship SuperSwitch aims to move data between thousands of GPUs, CPUs and memory units with far less power and space than conventional electrical switching. Founded in 2020 by UC Berkeley photonics researchers and led by telecom-optics veteran Ashish Vengsarkar, the company raised an $80M Series C in April 2026, bringing total funding to about $152.5M as it scales foundry-based manufacturing for AI data centers.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Santa Clara, California, United States
- **Founders:** Ming C. Wu (Co-founder & Chief Scientist; UC Berkeley professor, founder of the Photonic Systems Integration Lab), Tae Joon Seok (Co-founder & CTO; MEMS-based optical devices expert (UC Berkeley PhD)), Kyungmok "Mogi" Kwon (Co-founder; photonic integrated circuits (UC Berkeley)), Xiaosheng Zhang (Co-founder (UC Berkeley MS/PhD))
- **Team size:** ~45 employees
- **Products:** SuperSwitch, OCS-on-a-chip
- **Notable:** Raised roughly $152.5M total across Series B and C by April 2026., Attracted both Alphabet's CapitalG and Microsoft's M12 to its cap table., Demonstrated a wafer-scale MEMS silicon photonics optical circuit switch (SuperSwitch).

## Products & services

- **SuperSwitch** — A MEMS-based silicon photonics optical circuit switch integrating high-radix switching on a compact, wafer-scale chip. The company claims advantages over existing optical switches including roughly 100x smaller size, 1,000x lower power, 10,000x faster reconfiguration and 10x lower cost.
- **OCS-on-a-chip** — Optical circuit switching integrated onto a single chip by fusing MEMS, silicon photonics and CMOS, designed to create a fast-switching optical layer for AI fabrics and enable direct optical connections among thousands of GPUs and memory units.

## Achievements

- Raised roughly $152.5M total across Series B and C by April 2026.
- Attracted both Alphabet's CapitalG and Microsoft's M12 to its cap table.
- Demonstrated a wafer-scale MEMS silicon photonics optical circuit switch (SuperSwitch).
- Spun a decade-plus of UC Berkeley photonics research into a commercial product roadmap.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Closed an $80M Series C led by Sutter Hill Ventures; Stefan Dyckerhoff joined the board; funds earmarked for high-volume, foundry-based manufacturing.
- **2025-04** — Raised $72.5M to advance its MEMS-based silicon photonics optical switch technology.

## Links

- Website: https://neye.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neye-systems

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Last updated: 2026-07-11