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Piris Labs
Winter 2026Inference at Light Speed
San Francisco, CA, USA20262 peopleActive
Hard TechB2BCloud ComputingAINetworks
About Company
Piris Labs offers a full-stack inference service that eliminates the AI data movement bottleneck. By pairing proprietary photonic hardware with a vertically optimized software stack, we minimize the "memory wall" associated with expensive GPUs. This allows us to deliver the same performance as traditional clusters at a fraction of the cost. Our technology improves effective FLOP utilization and reduces latency, finally making the unit economics of trillion-parameter models sustainable. Founded by a team of MIT physicists and Meta AI experts.
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Founder (YC W26), reimagining AI compute architectures | PhD EE (MIT → NASA → Stanford)
I am a technical leader with a decade of experience scaling AI/ML products. At Meta and X, I specialized in leading tiger teams to launch high-stakes 0-to-1 initiatives. Now, I am the Co-Founder of Piris Labs. We are building high-speed photonic interconnects to solve the energy and latency constraints in AI data centers. My current focus is delivering our E/O engine prototype to secure our seed round.
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Visit Websiteworkspace_premiumBatchWinter 2026
groupTeam Size2
calendar_monthFounded2026
trending_upStageEarly
categoryIndustryB2B
location_onLocationSan Francisco, CA, USA
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