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- Lighmatter, an artificial intelligence chip startup focused on photonic supercomputing, has hired long-time Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) executive Simona Jankowski as its chief financial officer, the company announced Monday.
- Jankowksi spent more than two decades at Nvidia, where she served as vice president of investor relations and strategic finance.
- “Simona’s track record leading financial strategy and investor relations teams, deep expertise in the artificial intelligence industry, and passion for science and engineering will allow us to scale our operations and culture and prepare for Lightmatter’s next phase of growth,” said Nick Harris, co-founder and CEO of Lightmatter.
- “Generative AI is driving unprecedented demand for a new class of extreme-scale data centers,” Jankowski said. “Lightmatter has made foundational breakthroughs in photonics that enable data centers to increase in scale and performance by orders of magnitude, and with greater energy efficiency.”
- Lightmatter, which is backed in part by Google Ventures and Viking Global Investors, is valued at $1.2B.