Quintessent Closes $11.5M Seed Round
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March. 18, 2024 — Quintessent, a heterogeneous silicon photonics and quantum dot laser technology company, has closed on just over $11.5 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Osage University Partners along with M Ventures, Sierra Ventures, Foothill Ventures, and Entrada Ventures. According to CEO and co-founder Alan Liu, the funding will go towards expanding Quintessent’s development team as well as hastening the development of scalable optical interconnects that should surpass