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Lumilens

Lumilens is a San Jose, California photonics company building optical interconnect silicon for AI data centers. Founded in 2024 by Ankur Singla (previously Contrail Systems and Volterra) with Ted Schmidt, Samuel Liu, Ritesh Kapahi and Dave Friedman, it designs co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-packaged optics (NPO) devices that let hyperscalers replace copper interconnect with fiber at 800Gb/s, 1.6Tb/s and beyond, attacking the connectivity bottleneck that now limits GPU cluster scaling more than compute does. The company emerged from stealth in August 2026 with more than $900M raised — including a $700M Series C at a $5.51B valuation led by Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and Spark Capital — and says it is already shipping production optical interconnect into hyperscale AI data centers under a multi-billion-dollar customer agreement. Its product is physical silicon sold direct to a small set of very large buyers; as of this profile it publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind, and lumilens.com is still an interim recruiting and news site.

Lumilens is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Photonics, Optical Networking, Interconnects, and Semiconductors.

Lumilens’ developer surface includes engineering blog and 6 more developer resources.

10.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
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CompanyPhotonicsOptical NetworkingInterconnectsSemiconductorsSilicon PhotonicsData CentersArtificial IntelligenceHardware

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Security Posture 1

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Agent Surfaces 1

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Access & Security 1

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Commercial 3

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Company 2

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: lumilens
name: Lumilens
description: Lumilens is a San Jose, California photonics company building optical interconnect silicon for AI data centers.
  Founded in 2024 by Ankur Singla (previously Contrail Systems and Volterra) with Ted Schmidt, Samuel Liu, Ritesh Kapahi and
  Dave Friedman, it designs co-packaged optics (CPO) and near-packaged optics (NPO) devices that let hyperscalers replace
  copper interconnect with fiber at 800Gb/s, 1.6Tb/s and beyond, attacking the connectivity bottleneck that now limits GPU
  cluster scaling more than compute does. The company emerged from stealth in August 2026 with more than $900M raised — including
  a $700M Series C at a $5.51B valuation led by Atreides Management, Bain Capital Ventures, Meritech, Seligman Ventures and
  Spark Capital — and says it is already shipping production optical interconnect into hyperscale AI data centers under a
  multi-billion-dollar customer agreement. Its product is physical silicon sold direct to a small set of very large buyers;
  as of this profile it publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract of any kind, and lumilens.com
  is still an interim recruiting and news site.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lumilens/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68aa10a8e6f4d59001f9f05d/68b6c01786ae316e23307b57_Favicon-256x256.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/lumilens_stock/
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Photonics
- Optical Networking
- Interconnects
- Semiconductors
- Silicon Photonics
- Data Centers
- Artificial Intelligence
- Hardware
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lumilens-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lumilens.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://lumilens.com/news-insights
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lumilens.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lumilens.com/privacy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lumilens-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lumilens-plans-pricing.yml
x-contract-discovery:
  checked: '2026-08-25'
  verdict: no-published-contract
  note: 'STEP 0b contract discovery run against every host this company is known to control. No OpenAPI/Swagger, no GraphQL
    endpoint, no MCP server, no AsyncAPI, no A2A agent card, no WSDL and no .proto exist anywhere. There are no apis[] entries
    and no baseURL because there is no API: lumilens.com is a Webflow interim recruiting and news site whose own footer "Blog"
    link is hidden and 404s, and every developer-shaped subdomain is NXDOMAIN. The GitHub organization github.com/Lumilens
    exists (created 2025-09-24) but publishes zero public repositories and zero public members, and the company''s site never
    links to it, so no GitHubOrganization pointer is claimed. lumilens.vercel.app is an older stealth-era site of the same
    company (footer "(c) 2024 Lumilens Inc.") and was probed too; it publishes nothing machine-readable either. Package registries
    were searched: npm returns 0 results for "lumilens", PyPI 404s.'
  hosts_probed:
  - host: lumilens.com
    resolves: true
  - host: lumilens.vercel.app
    resolves: true
    note: legacy stealth-era site, same company
  - host: api.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: docs.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: developer.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: portal.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: dev.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: app.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: console.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: status.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: support.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  - host: partners.lumilens.com
    resolves: false
  probes:
  - url: https://lumilens.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/openapi.yaml
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/swagger.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/v1/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/api-docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/mcp
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/api
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/sitemap.xml
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/pricing
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/status
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/changelog
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/support
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/blog
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.vercel.app/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.vercel.app/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/Lumilens/repos
    status: 200
    result: 0 public repositories
  - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/-/v1/search?text=lumilens
    status: 200
    result: 0 packages
  - url: https://pypi.org/pypi/lumilens/json
    status: 404
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Lumilens sells physical co-packaged and near-packaged optics silicon direct to hyperscalers under negotiated supply
    agreements, and eleven months after registering a GitHub org it has published zero repositories and lumilens.com is still
    a five-page Webflow recruiting site whose own footer Blog link is hidden and 404s.
  evidence:
  - url: https://lumilens.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://lumilens.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.lumilens.com/
    status: 0
  checked: '2026-08-25'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1

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