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Socratic Partners

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Socratic Partners invests across the semiconductor ecosystem, backing founders developing technologies for computing and related infrastructure.

Investment focus

The firm’s investment focus spans the chip industry and technologies that enable it. Its team emphasizes experience building, leading and investing in semiconductor companies when working with founders.

Activity recorded by RoundOS

RoundOS records include Polaris Electro-Optics and nEye.ai in optical interconnects, Eridu in AI networking, and Delos Data in inference infrastructure. Ethernovia develops networking processors for software-defined systems. These recorded financings illustrate connected computing infrastructure; the selection is not the firm’s full portfolio.

Sources
Rounds participated in
6
Confirmed lead rounds
1
4 roles undisclosed
New companies
6
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$447.5M
5 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series A2
Series B2
Series C+1
Undisclosed1

By primary sector

AI3
Hardware3

By country

United States6

Rounds

6 in all activity
PicoJool

PicoJool develops optical chips and transceiver modules for high-bandwidth, low-power connections in AI data centres.

$27.5MSeries A
Lead
Delos Data

Delos Data builds an AI inference infrastructure platform spanning cluster software, server systems and data-interface silicon. It connects heterogeneous GPUs, accelerators, memory and storage into a resilient data domain so operators can scale inference workloads with lower latency and avoid interruptions when components or links fail.

>$100MFunding
Role not disclosed
Polaris Electro-Optics

Optical interconnect technology for moving data between AI and data-center systems with lower power consumption.

$50MSeries B
Participant
nEye.ai

Develops integrated optical interconnects for AI data centers

$80MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Eridu

Develops purpose-built networking silicon and systems for AI data centers and hyperscalers

$200MSeries A
Role not disclosed
Ethernovia

Develops Ethernet-based packet processors for software-defined autonomy.

$90MSeries B
Role not disclosed