L’Espagnol iPronics lève 125 M$ pour ses réseaux optiques dédiés à l’IA
西班牙公司 iPronics 宣布完成 1.25 亿美元 B 轮融资，用于加速其面向 AI 数据中心的可编程光交换技术部署。本轮由 Maverick Silicon 和 Light Street Capital 领投，Nvidia 也参与了投资，显示出 AI 基础设施领域对光互连与网络交换方案的持续关注。
iPronics 总部位于西班牙瓦伦西亚，成立于 2019 年，最初是瓦伦西亚理工大学（Universitat Politècnica de València）的分拆项目。公司主打的是可编程光交换技术，目标是为 AI 数据中心提供更高效的网络连接与流量调度能力，以适应大规模 AI 训练和推理对带宽、延迟和能耗的严苛要求。
这笔融资的意义不仅在于资金规模，也在于投资方组合：Maverick Silicon、Light Street Capital 与 Nvidia 的加入，反映出资本市场和产业巨头都在押注下一代数据中心网络架构。对 iPronics 而言，这将有助于其加快技术商业化和市场部署；对行业而言，则进一步说明光学交换正从实验室和早期试点，走向 AI 基础设施的实际落地。
Spanish startup iPronics has raised $125 million in a Series B round led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with Nvidia also participating. The Valencia-based company says the funding will help it speed up deployment of its programmable optical switching technology for AI data centers.
Founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Universitat Politècnica de València, iPronics is positioning itself around optical networking infrastructure designed for the growing demands of AI workloads. The company’s core technology focuses on programmable optical switching, an approach intended to improve how data is routed inside data centers as AI systems require ever higher bandwidth and lower latency.
The new capital and Nvidia’s involvement underscore investor interest in optical networking as a potential bottleneck-solving layer for AI infrastructure. For iPronics, the round provides both financial backing and strategic validation as it moves to scale a technology aimed at next-generation AI data centers.
Nvidia participe à ce tour de série B mené par Maverick Silicon et Light Street Capital, qui permettra à cette entreprise espagnole basée à Valence d’accélérer le déploiement de sa technologie de commutation optique programmable pour les centres de données d’IA. Fondée en 2019 en tant que spin-off de l’Universitat Politècnica de València, l’entreprise espagnole […]
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iPronics raised $125M (Series B) to scale programmable optical switching networks for AI data centers, with Nvidia participating—important because it accelerates high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity needed for AI workloads.
iPronics — programmable optical switching for AI data center networks, based in Valencia, Spain.
Nvidia — AI compute and networking ecosystem participant/investor, based in the US.
Maverick Silicon — leads the Series B, based in the US (venture capital).
Light Street Capital — co-leads the Series B, based in the US (venture capital).
[Strongly track] — major funding plus Nvidia involvement signals momentum in AI data center optical networking deployment.