PicoJool develops optical chips and transceiver modules for high-bandwidth, low-power connections in AI data centres.
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Hudson River Trading
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionUnited States · Oct 19, 2026 · Jul 22, 2026
Hudson River Trading is the investor identified by co-investor announcements for Eridu and PicoJool.
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PicoJool builds optical chips and transceiver modules for data-center connections. Polaris develops optical interconnects, while Positron develops inference hardware and software. These covered companies address different parts of high-performance computing systems.
- Rounds participated in
- 4
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 0 All roles disclosed
- New companies
- 4 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $377.5M 3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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4 in this selectionPicoJool
$27.5MSeries A
ParticipantPolaris Electro-Optics
Optical interconnect technology for moving data between AI and data-center systems with lower power consumption.
$50MSeries B
ParticipantPositron AI
Positron AI develops memory-focused hardware and software for large-language-model inference.
≤$875MSeries C and Series C-1 financing package
ParticipantGimlet Labs
Provides a cloud inference platform and compiler that distribute AI workloads across different processor types.
$300MSeries B
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