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Eliyan was valued at $1B as of 29 July 2026 (reported). Source: Eliyan press release (via Intel Capital), Eliyan Achieves Unicorn Status with $145 Million Series C to Advance Electro-optical Interconnects for AI Infrastructure - led by Seligman Ventures with Cisco Investments and Lumentum.

Santa Clara interconnect company (founded 2021) that licenses NuLink physical-layer cores and NuGear chiplets for moving data between dies inside a package, between separately packaged chips on a board, and now rack to rack - on standard packaging rather than the costlier advanced packaging rivals need.

Valuation

$1B

Confidence

reported

As of

29 July 2026

Layer

AI silicon

Signal

chiplet interconnect

Website

eliyan.com

Relationships (5)

Notes

Santa Clara interconnect company (founded 2021) that licenses NuLink physical-layer cores and NuGear chiplets for moving data between dies inside a package, between separately packaged chips on a board, and now rack to rack - on standard packaging rather than the costlier advanced packaging rivals need. The $145M Series C closed 2026-07-29 at a $1B valuation led by Seligman Ventures, with Cisco Investments and Lumentum as new strategic investors, funding an expansion from electrical chiplet links into electro-optical ones; total funding is about $295M. The on-map relationships are all in the PREVIOUS round: a $50M strategic financing announced 2026-01-28 from Intel Capital, Samsung's Strategy and Innovation Center, AMD, Arm, Coherent and Meta. The Information reported on 2026-10-09 that Eliyan has received a takeover bid and is working with an investment bank to target a valuation near $3B, roughly triple the July mark; Arm, already an investor, held early acquisition talks but made no bid and is said to be unlikely to at that price. No deal has been announced and no bidder is named, so the $1B Series C stands.

Sources

• Eliyan press release (via Intel Capital), Eliyan Achieves Unicorn Status with $145 Million Series C to Advance Electro-optical Interconnects for AI Infrastructure - led by Seligman Ventures with Cisco Investments and Lumentum 2026-07-29
• HPCwire (company release wire copy), Eliyan secures $145M to expand AI optical interconnect platform 2026-07-29
• Eliyan announcement, Eliyan Corporation received $50 million in funding from Intel Capital, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center, Advanced Micro Devices, ARM Limited, Coherent Corp. and Meta Platforms 2026-01-28

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