# Volantis: robotics company

Canonical ID: `0568aa87-33c9-4573-8e48-26e3c4e5d5df`

## Key facts

- **Series A investors (company-stated, Oct 2026):** Co-led by [Lachy Groom](/people/lachy-groom.md) and [Abstract Ventures](/investors/abstract-ventures.md), with [John Doerr](/investors/john-doerr.md), VXI Capital, Triatomic, Susa Ventures and angels Dwarkesh Patel, [Naveen Rao](/people/naveen-rao.md), Sholto Douglas.
- **Use of proceeds (company-stated, Oct 2026):** Developing and commercializing the A-1 photonic memory and inference architecture; first customer deliveries targeted for 2027.
- **A-1 targets (company-claimed):** Over 20T parameters and up to 10,000 tokens/s per user. Company targets, not customer results.
- **A-1 design (company-claimed):** Custom micro-VCSEL optical interconnects link compute and pooled memory, pitched as raising capacity and bandwidth together versus HBM.

- **Slug:** volantis
- **Status:** private
- **Founded:** 2025
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is Volantis?

[San Francisco](/locations/san-francisco-ca.md) semiconductor company building photonic interconnects aimed at AI compute-to-memory bandwidth and capacity. First system A-1 targets frontier inference; company says first integrated inference-engine customer deliveries are planned for 2027. Founding team background includes [NVIDIA](/companies/nvidia.md), [AMD](/companies/amd.md), [Broadcom](/companies/broadcom.md), and Ayar Labs alumni per company press.

### What does Volantis make?

Volantis has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Volantis builds physical robots.

### Is Volantis publicly traded?

No. Volantis is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Volantis?

Volantis is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today.

### Where is Volantis headquartered?

Volantis is headquartered in [San Francisco, California, USA](/locations/san-francisco-usa.md).

### Who owns Volantis?

Volantis is privately held; ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

### Is Volantis a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Volantis ranks in roughly the top 4% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Volantis founded?

Volantis was founded in 2025.


## Sources (4)

1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/volantis-raises-88m-series-a-to-demolish-the-ai-memory-wall-with-photonics-302895940.html · 2026-10-01
2. https://volantissemi.ai/ · 2026-10-01
3. https://www.streetinsider.com/Reuters/Volantis+raises+%2488+million+for+tech+to+connect+AI%2C+memory+chips%C2%A0/27132814.html · 2026-10-01
4. https://volantissemi.ai/product

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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