Accelight Technologies (ATI) is an ISO-certified ODM founded in 2017 that designs and manufactures high-speed optical connectivity products - transceiver modules from 100G to 1.6T, active optical and electrical cables, passive optical modules, and optical amplifiers - for hyperscale data centers, AI computing infrastructure, and telecom carriers. With R&D centers in Wuhan Optics Valley and Silicon Valley and manufacturing in China and Thailand, ATI positions itself as a supply-chain-secure alternative for cloud and AI networking optics.
SCINTIL Photonics is a Grenoble-based, fabless silicon photonics company building the world's first single-chip, DWDM-native laser source for AI data centers. Spun out of CEA-Leti and founded by Sylvie Menezo, its proprietary SHIP (Scintil Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics) process integrates lasers, modulators and detectors onto one manufacturable chip - powering its LEAF Light light engine for co-packaged optics that promises roughly one-sixth the power consumption of conventional pluggable optics. The company raised a $58M Series B in September 2025 with participation from NVIDIA.
Matt Crowley is the CEO of SCINTIL Photonics, a fabless silicon-photonics company in Grenoble building single-chip DWDM laser engines for AI data centers. A Princeton-trained physicist who grew up in a family of small-business owners, he spent 25 years turning lab-stage technologies into volume products, founding and exiting two MEMS startups (Sand 9 and Vesper Technologies, the latter acquired by Qualcomm) before taking the helm at Scintil in late 2024. He argues the next bottleneck in AI is the network, not the chip, and is betting that light - not copper - will carry it.