⚡️AI Brief⚡️Lumilens emerged from stealth with a $700 million+ Series C at a $5.5 billion valuation, pushing total raised past $900 million. Founded in 2024, the company builds optical interconnects for AI data centers, replacing copper wiring between GPUs with fiber-optic connections. The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures, and Spark Capital, with Qualcomm Ventures, J.P. Morgan Private Capital, and Redpoint Ventures also participating. Lumilens is already shipping production optical interconnect products into hyperscale AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement, just two years after founding. Founder Ankur Singla is a four-time infrastructure founder. His previous companies Contrail Systems and Volterra were acquired by Juniper Networks and F5 respectively. Source: Lumilens (official press release)