We’re building faster, safer, smarter networks for a world run by machines.
Today’s internet spends enormous effort double-checking itself. Every message gets checked, wrapped in security, unwrapped and checked again at every stop, at a cost of billions of dollars in chips and huge amounts of electricity. We’re designing networks that get it right the first time: every message checked as it travels, with nothing slowing it down.
Light carries your data across oceans. But at every junction it has to stop, turn into electricity, wait in line, and turn back into light.
We’re developing routing that decides where data goes while it’s still light, so it never has to stop.
Checking, re-checking and re-encrypting at every hop takes mountains of chips and electricity, just as the world runs short of power for AI.
We’re developing a way to move and verify data in a single step, so the work is done once instead of over and over.
Machines tell the network where data came from and where it should go, and the network believes them. A single typo has sent traffic across the planet.
We’re building trust into the path itself, so every hop is verified instead of assumed.
Networks keep logs, but logs can be edited and argued over. Networks can report. They can’t testify.
We’re developing a network that keeps a record of what it carried, one that stands up as evidence.
The industry’s fix has been to bolt on more: more firewalls, more security boxes, more checking. We start at the chip, and design the network so that moving a message and checking it happen together, in the same step, every time.
Add another layer.
Build it into the path.
Our routing gets information where it needs to go, faster and more reliably.
Protection is woven into the network itself instead of added on top.
Our hardware gives the exact same right answer every time, and it’s already running on FPGA chips in our lab.
We’re working toward the next generation of networks, which move information at the speed of light.
Every world-class tech hub started somewhere. Silicon Valley was orchards once. It took a few people who decided not to wait for permission.
Why not us.
Why not here.
Why not now.
AI / Space / Defence / Self-driving machines / Anything that can’t afford to get it wrong
The internet was built to survive losing its parts. It was never built to know whether its parts are telling the truth.
Read · 3 min →In 1994, a maths professor caught the world’s flagship processor getting division wrong. The gap between tested and true is still open.
Read · 3 min →Light carries nearly all of the world’s data. It has never once been allowed to decide where that data goes.
Read · 3 min →Aircraft got a flight recorder in the 1950s. Every other machine that acts in the world is still waiting for one.
Read · 3 min →The internet’s foundations were laid by a handful of people who refused to accept that something couldn’t be done. The next foundation is wide open. If you want to help lay it, we should talk.
People who want to make light do more than carry data.
Introduce yourself →Digital designers who care about every gate and every clock cycle.
Introduce yourself →Routing and protocol people who know where today’s internet bends and breaks.
Introduce yourself →People who would rather prove a system is sound than hope it is.
Introduce yourself →Partnerships, product and operations people who want to take this into data centres, defence and beyond.
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For investors, network and data-centre operators, defence and infrastructure partners, and anyone who thinks the internet should be able to prove itself.