Built by
industry veterans.

Photonics, metamaterials, analog and digital silicon — out of NVIDIA, Apple, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Meta, ARM, Micron, Mellanox, Lightmatter.

01 LEADERSHIP

The people
building it.

Patrick Bowen

CEO · Co-Founder

Metamaterials PhD from Duke; serial entrepreneur. Co-designed multiple industry-leading metamaterial products from RF to optics.

Nathan Kundtz

CTO

Founder and CEO of Rendered.ai. Former CEO and President of Kymeta. Physics PhD from Duke. Metamaterials at Intellectual Ventures and Duke.

Preston Woo

CFO

Tech and private-equity veteran. Former CFO at Tafi and Sarcos Robotics. Executive roles at Pendrell, Intellectual Ventures, and Vulcan Capital. Wharton MBA.

Michael Shebanow

SVP Engineering

Led NVIDIA's GPU and CPU efforts for a decade. VP Eng at AMD, Samsung, and Cadence. Founded and led startup semiconductor companies. CS PhD from Berkeley.

Andrew Traverso

Chief Scientist · Co-Founder

Quantum-optics PhD from Duke; nanophotonics postdoc. Deep experience in validation, prototyping, and design.

Suohai Mei

VP of Product Engineering

Built co-packaged photonics products at NVIDIA, Intel, and Finisar. Thirty years bringing new hardware to volume production.

Fu-Tai An

VP of VLSI

Former VP of Engineering at Nokia and Infinera. 20+ years in analog/mixed-signal IC design, with time at Xilinx and Marvell. PhD from Stanford.

Kevin Keller

General Counsel

Legal leader at Forward Networks, Adept, and Super. Prior legal experience at Amazon, Microsoft, and Micron working on hardware. 5yrs at WSGR. JD from NYU.

PROVENANCE

Built by people from
the teams that built modern compute.

Photonics, AI silicon, memory, and optical systems — our leadership and staff came from the companies where the last decade of compute was actually built.

Silicon · AI · Memory