{"id":996199,"date":"2026-03-04T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T03:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996199"},"modified":"2026-03-04T12:57:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T07:27:56","slug":"nvidia-backed-ayar-labs-raises-500-million-at-3-75-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/04\/nvidia-backed-ayar-labs-raises-500-million-at-3-75-billion-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia-backed Ayar Labs raises $500 million at $3.75 billion valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia-backed Ayar Labs, which develops chips that transmit data using light, said on Tuesday it has raised $500 million in a series E round at a valuation of $3.75 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The latest round, which brings \u200cits total \u2060funding \u2060to $870 million, was led by investment firm Neuberger Berman and involved new investors including ARK Invest, Qatar Investment Authority and 1789 Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia-backed Ayar Labs, which develops chips that transmit data using light, said on Tuesday it has raised $500 million in a series E round at a valuation of $3.75 billion. The latest round, which brings \u200cits total \u2060funding \u2060to $870 million, was led by investment firm Neuberger Berman and involved new investors including ARK Invest, Qatar Investment Authority and 1789 Capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}