AI is touching our lives and driving breakthroughs in healthcare, finance, autonomous systems, and countless other domains. Its ability to process vast data, derive insights, and automate complex tasks unlocks new levels of efficiency and innovation. However, the exponential growth of AI workloads demands greater computational power and more efficient data movement. Traditional electronic interconnects are struggling to keep up, necessitating a paradigm shift in AI infrastructure. The answer is like night and day. Celestial AI’s photonic fabric is a revolutionary technology that scales AI compute within package and package-to-package across multiple racks. It forms the foundation for an optical scale-up network, overcoming the physical limitations of electronic interconnects. Offering terabytes of low-latency bandwidth, in-network computing, and high-performance memory, photonic fabric heralds a new dawn in AI infrastructure. Switching to optical interconnects enables larger multi-die packages and bigger scale-up domains, creating a leap into the next decade. Photonic fabric-based products transform AI data centers, scaling thousands of XPUs across racks, enabling larger models, better reasoning, and more efficient inference. By reducing total cost of ownership, this innovation unlocks new use cases and more profitable GenAI business models. With an aggressive roadmap, a robust ecosystem of partners, and a tier-one supply chain, Celestial AI isn’t just reimagining AI data centers; it’s delivering an AI-driven, sustainable future. At its core, AI isn’t just about algorithms or hardware; it’s about people. Unlocking creativity, solving humanity’s biggest challenges, and making the impossible possible. The future of AI is here. Intelligence, illuminated.

Form Energy develops and commercializes a low-cost battery system that can store wind and solar energy for a long duration. It aims to make batteries that can dispatch energy for days, expanding the ability to supply wind and solar power to the grid. The company's technology transforms the electric grid by making renewable energy dispatchable year-round, as well as extending transmission capacity without building new wires and replacing the need for conventional thermal generation. Its core technology was invented at MIT and is supported by investors which include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, MIT’s The Engine, Macquarie Capital, Eni Next, Capricorn Investment Group, and Prelude Ventures. Their team members are active learners who like working on tough technology problems that can only be solved with a combination of scientific innovation and hard work.

Northwood Space is a hardware solution that dramatically increases the number of orbits and frequency bands available for satellite communications from the ground.

ISEE is an autonomous driving technology company building advanced AI to modernize the global supply chain. ISEE autonomous yard trucks are helping customers like Maersk, Lazerspot, and Fortune 100 retail companies automate their logistics hubs and achieve even greater yard safety, cost savings, consistent driving performance, and reliable driving capacity. With proprietary technology that anticipates unexpected behavior better than any other solution on the market.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems develops fusion energy systems using high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets to create compact tokamak reactors. It is building SPARC, a demonstration device designed to achieve net energy gain from fusion and laying the groundwork for ARC, a grid-connected fusion power plant targeting early 2030s operation. The company partners with MIT and manufactures its HTS magnets and related components, applying peer-reviewed science in its firewalling of plasma and reactor engineering. It has introduced innovations like the PIT VIPER superconducting cable to support pulsed-power magnet systems and accelerate readiness for commercial fusion.

The Osmolality Lab provides osmolality services that include vapor pressure and freezing point. They provide potential testing of hydrogen, a viscosity test, conductivity test, free chlorine test, and salinity test services. They also provide total dissolved solids testing and consulting services.

Solugen is a venture-backed biotech company that replaces petroleum-based products with plant-derived substitutes. They combine the elements of fermentation with the elements of petrochemical processing to create the carbon negative molecular manufacturing platform. They produce chemicals from bio-based feedstocks and are based on breakthroughs in synthetic biology, metal catalyst engineering, and modular plant design. Its solutions will also address clean water, sustainable materials, safer food, and healthy personal care.

Multiply Labs manufactures personalized pharmaceutical capsules that are tailor-made to the unique needs of each patient. Multiply Labs’ product is enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with robotics technology. The company has built and operates a unique robotic pharmaceutical manufacturing facility. Multiply Labs is the first company ever to bring to the market 3D printed capsules.

HyperLight provides thin-film lithium niobate photonic integrated circuit solutions. They deliver groundbreaking electro-optic and nonlinear optical solutions with scalable manufacturing processes. They work closely with their customers from conceptualization, design, prototyping, and transfer to volume production.

VEIR is a company developing a new approach to using high-temperature superconductors for electricity transmission. Its passive evaporative cryogenic cooling delivers 20 times the cooling power per kilogram of nitrogen flow compared to mechanical subcooling.

We’re leveraging AI to solve one of the most consequential challenges in the pursuit of technical progress: the distribution of scientific innovations to the real world. We’re well-funded with top investors and are building a world class team. For innovations to have broad impact, they must scale beyond the lab. For too long, the transfer of discoveries from lab bench to real-world application has relied on informal handoffs, tacit know-how, and opaque processes and is littered with failed attempts and learnings buried in lab notebooks. The industry has quietly accepted this agonizingly slow process and inability to broadly reproduce and distribute new discoveries. We’re determined to support a new paradigm that ensures new scientific innovations can be more robust, interpretable, and transferable. We are building processes and cutting-edge AI tools that aim to illuminate and streamline these critical transfers of knowledge. We learn as much, if not much more, from failures as successes, transforming experimental science into robust, scalable solutions. We aren’t building AI to replace human ingenuity, but rather AI that can be a better partner in understanding and translating that ingenuity to new domains. We seek to build tools that help scientists spend less time documenting and debugging and more time doing the exploration they love. To be clear: we believe this will become critical infrastructure. Without solving for scale and knowledge distribution, the discoveries that will be enabled by great scientists at the bench and generative AI designs will fail to reach their end customer: us. If this resonates with you, we invite you to apply or partner with us. Our team moves fast, thinks deeply, and believes that rigorous, creative collaboration can solve the most meaningful problems in science.

Terrestrial is transforming the delivery of next-generation therapies, starting with GLP-1. Terrestrial’s proprietary microarray patch (MAP) and applicator platform consists of a patch resembling an adhesive bandage, which is applied with a preloaded applicator and removed after a few minutes. Once applied, each patch delivers bioactive tips into the skin, which dissolve quickly into the body, rapidly releasing their therapeutic payload. Designed for self-administration, the temperature-stable MAP platform enables precise, controlled delivery of a wide range of therapeutics without medical sharps or refrigeration.