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A humanoid robot vacuums a modern living room while a woman reads on a sofa. Large windows, bookshelves, and potted plants fill the bright interior.

Akhetonics

Series B

What would it take to trust AI with an airport, an operating room, or a power grid? Generating possibilities is one thing. Verifying them on the fly before a critical action is a huge challenge. As conventional processors approach their performance limits, an all-optical approach providing 100× CPU speed offers a way to close that gap.

I worked with the founder throughout the round to build a coherent investment case.

Akhetonics is a German startup with offices in Berlin and Munich. It develops all-optical processors for AI, automated reasoning, and optimization.

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Air traffic control: is AI completely reliable?
Computing history from mechanical to optical
A product render sits above a bar-style forecast chart from 2027 to 2031. The chart shows growing unit sales with black icons for edge manufacturers and orange icons for data centers, rising from 5K to 100K units.
Collage titled “Integrated AI infrastructure” with a transparent server rack diagram on the left and six black-and-white scenes on the right showing drones, an autonomous farm machine, a control room, a humanoid robot vacuuming, a factory robot, and a self-driving car in a city street.
Presentation storyboard organizing the verification bottleneck, all-optical approach, customers, technology, and commercial future across narrative, perspective, text, and visuals.