Glosilicon Secures Nearly 500 Million Yuan in Financing, Focusing on Optical Interconnection Technology Innovation for High-Power AI Computing Scenarios

Recently, Guanglian Xinke, a star startup in the domestic optical interconnection (OIO) field, made a significant announcement that it had completed nearly 500 million yuan in Series A financing within a month. The company's latest valuation and cumulative financing scale have once again refreshed the records of domestic startups in the optical interconnection field. With a clear technological direction and rapid growth rate, it has continuously attracted leading institutions to compete for investment, becoming one of the most favored hard - tech enterprises by capital at present.

It is reported that the company's new shareholder lineup has been upgraded again. The financing was jointly led by Gaorong Capital, Legend Capital, and Cornerstone Capital, with strong follow - up investments from multiple first - tier industrial capitals such as GLP Yishan Capital, Ren'ai Capital, and Xinhe Capital, as well as well - known entrepreneurs like Pei Zhenhua. Old shareholders such as Junlian Capital, Sequoia China, Hillhouse Capital, Zhenzhi Capital, and Shangshi Capital made significantly over - subscribed additional investments. Duowei Capital serves as the company's long - term exclusive financial advisor. This fully reflects the capital market's long - term optimism about the optical interconnection field and its high recognition of Guanglian Xinke's technological strength, industrialization ability, and future growth potential.

Guanglian Xinke focuses on technological innovation in optical interconnection under the scenario of large AI computing power, aiming to build an efficient and low - power computing interconnection architecture and provide key underlying support for global AI computing centers. As a flagship project deeply incubated by Zhenzhi Capital, Guanglian Xinke has been deeply involved by Ren Xuyang, the founder and chairman of Zhenzhi Capital, and Chen Chao, the managing partner of Zhenzhi Capital, since its establishment. They have provided full industrial resource support and long - term accompanying empowerment, creating a hardcore growth path different from conventional investment and incubation. Relying on this solid support, the company adheres to independent innovation and national - scale industrial collaboration, building a complete technological barrier in key areas such as core optoelectronic devices, advanced packaging, and process optimization, and steadily achieving efficient implementation from R & D verification to large - scale commercial use. The funds raised in this round will be mainly used for mass production of core products, in - depth market expansion, and continuous technological R & D to further consolidate the company's leading position in the industry and accelerate the large - scale popularization of "all - optical interconnection".

Chen Chao, CEO of Guanglian Xinke, said, "Thanks for the trust of new and old shareholders! The development of AI is driving a fundamental change in the entire computing architecture, and interconnection has become the core bottleneck in development. In the future, AI computing centers will surely move towards all - optical interconnection. Guanglian Xinke hopes to become a core builder of the next - generation AI infrastructure transformation, and promote the self - controllability of China's optical interconnection industry and breakthroughs in global competitiveness through continuous technological innovation."

Xin Wang, a partner of Gaorong Capital, said, "Aiming at continuously improving Token performance and reducing unit Token cost, the competition in AI infrastructure has already upgraded from the GPU level to the system level, and interconnection is the core technology determining system capabilities. Optical I/O is an important direction for the next - generation interconnection technology, which has been endorsed by giants like NVIDIA and has broad prospects. Guanglian Xinke has assembled a relatively complete high - level team with in - depth accumulation in optical chips, electrical chips, and production processes. It aims to develop next - generation optical I/O product technologies and has both industrial implementation resources and experience. We are optimistic about the company's growth into an important force in the optical I/O field in China and even globally."

Song Chunyu, the chief investment officer and senior partner of Legend Capital, said, "The AI era has spawned a huge demand for new - type computing infrastructure. Guanglian Xinke has built a complete technological system around optical I/O and demonstrated strong execution ability in industrialization. Legend Capital has long been concerned about underlying hard - tech innovation, and we look forward to Guanglian Xinke becoming an important participant in promoting the evolution of the next - generation computing architecture."

Dong Fanghao, the chairman and managing partner of GLP Yishan Capital, said, "GLP Yishan Capital has long been optimistic about the development opportunities in the field of AI infrastructure. High - performance optical interconnection is the key infrastructure for the next - generation data centers and AI clusters. We are optimistic about Guanglian Xinke's leading ability in optoelectronic technology, product innovation, and industrialization. Relying on GLP's data center ecosystem and Yishan Capital's industrial resources, we look forward to empowering Guanglian Xinke through the synergy of 'capital + industry' and helping it grow into a globally leading optical interconnection technology enterprise."