Great Sky Raises $14M in Seed Funding

Why It Matters

If successful, Great Sky’s SOENs could dramatically lower data‑center power consumption and latency, giving the firm a strategic foothold in the emerging neuromorphic and photonic computing markets.

Summary

Great Sky, a Boulder‑based computing hardware startup, closed a $14 million seed round led by Bison Ventures with participation from Matchstick Ventures, Range Ventures and several angels. The funding will fuel expansion and development of its Superconducting Optoelectronic Networks (SOENs), which combine cryogenic superconducting circuits, photonic interconnects, and neuromorphic architecture to deliver low‑energy, high‑speed, brain‑inspired processing. The founding team—CEO Jeff Shainline, CTO Jeff Chiles, and VPs Saeed Khan and Bryce Primavera—positions the company to challenge conventional silicon GPUs with a technology that co‑locates memory and compute for on‑device learning.