# Openlight

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openlight/  
**Website:** https://openlightphotonics.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

OpenLight Photonics is a silicon photonics company that designs and manufactures custom Photonic Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (PASICs) using a heterogeneously integrated, open silicon photonics platform that builds active components such as lasers and modulators onto the same chip as passive waveguides. Operating an open foundry model out of Goleta, California, OpenLight offers three services: design enablement through its Process Design Kit (PDK) with component libraries, evaluation kits, and a PDK Sampler; in-house custom PASIC design; and production manufacturing. Its technology targets datacom, telecom, AI data-center interconnect, lidar, HPC, healthcare, quantum, and IoT sensing. Spun out of Synopsys as an independent, venture-backed company in 2025, OpenLight has raised roughly $84M (a $34M Series A in 2025 and a $50M Series A-1 in 2026) from investors including Mayfield. This is a hardware/semiconductor company; it publishes no public web API, developer portal, or OpenAPI at this time — its developer surface is the chip-design PDK.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Openlight Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Silicon Photonics, Semiconductors, Photonics, PASIC, Hardware, Data-Center, Optical Interconnect, Chip Design, Deep Tech

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/openlight/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.