LightSolver Team (from website)
Israeli startup LightSolver is the inventor of a new laser-based computing paradigm. The company was selected for the European Innovation Council (EIC) Accelerator Program and will receive a €2.5 million grant and a €10 million ($2.72 million) equity investment to propel its groundbreaking all-optical supercomputer. This achievement places LightSolver among the top 7% of applicants, underscoring the transformative potential of its technology.
Founded in 2020 by Weizmann Institute physicists Dr. Ruti Ben-Shlomi and Dr. Chene Tradonsky, LightSolver is the creator of the first pure laser-based processing unit (LPU), a new computing paradigm that is poised to outpace and outperform quantum and supercomputers. This quantum-inspired solution utilizes all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute, enabling it to be as small as a traditional desktop computer while offering unrivaled scalability, low power requirements, and room temperature operation.
LightSolver’s novel processor, the Laser Processing Unit™ (LPU), harnesses the natural properties of light to execute complex mathematical operations, enabling industry and research to process compute-intensive workloads in a rapid and energy-efficient way. Applications such as computer-assisted engineering (CAE), bio-science computations, and intractable optimization problems are amongst the workloads that can be greatly accelerated by LightSolver’s platform.
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The European Innovation Council (EIC) is an initiative by the European Commission to support high-potential startups, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and researchers in developing and scaling breakthrough innovations. Launched to drive Europe’s leadership in new technologies and innovation, the EIC aims to identify, support, and invest in the most promising innovative projects across various sectors, including computing, energy, telecom, pharmaceutical, medical and more.
“We’re humbled to join the rows of trailblazing startups in fields such as sustainability, MedTech, and space technology that have received funding from the EIC,” said LightSolver CEO and co-founder Ruti Ben-Shlomi, Ph.D. “The amount of energy consumed by computing globally has been growing exponentially and is becoming unsustainable, hence the need for a new computing paradigm. Our laser-based processor can tackle large and complex computations faster than GPUs. It is also much less environmentally demanding than quantum computers, requiring no vacuum or ultracold temperatures which means that it can live in a data center.”
