Relativity Networks, a leading at-scale provider of next-generation fiber-optic technology, announced an oversubscribed $6.1M seed funding round, validating and reinforcing the company’s ability to produce and deliver, at scale, the hollow-core fiber (HCF) cable increasingly in demand by operators of the energy-intensive data centers required for the AI economy.
The funding round includes investments from Prysmian, the global provider in energy and communications cables, GOVO Venture Partners, and a group of new and previous investors who invested in Relativity’s pre-seed round. This brings the company’s total amount raised to $10.7M.
The seed round comes on the heels of rapid growth for the company, which emerged from stealth in February with a $4.6M pre-seed funding round.
“This investment represents a pivotal milestone in Relativity Networks' mission to address two of the most urgent infrastructure challenges of the AI revolution—latency and access to power,” said Relativity Networks founder and CEO Jason Eichenholz. “As data centers face unprecedented energy demands and latency requirements, our hollow-core fiber technology delivers the critical infrastructure backbone needed to support this exponential growth. This funding—along with our continued partnership with Prysmian—allows us to accelerate our ability to meet the surging demand for infrastructure that can handle AI's massive computational requirements.”
The enormous demands for electric power to handle AI-ready data processing has created a potential bottleneck in the construction of new data centers.
But Relativity Networks’ patent-pending hollow-core fiber (HCF) technology can overcome that problem by enabling cloud-computing hyperscalers to locate data centers closer to the sources of power—whether conventional electric utilities or green-energy providers.
Hollow-core fiber has emerged as a transformative innovation critical to data center infrastructure, especially with the explosion of AI adoption.
While traditional fiber optic cables typically limit data centers to within 60 kilometers (37 miles) of power providers—or to one another—due to latency constraints, Relativity Networks' HCF technology extends this range to 90 kilometers (56 miles).
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