Earlier today, optical interconnect company Lumilens "emerges from stealth" at a $5.5B valuation, after raising $700m.

Just as a recap from $POET Tech(POET.US) / $SIVE Linkedin OSINT mapping I shared earlier, Lumilens was supplying a top 3 hyperscaler customer.

So we got confirmation of that a month later, along with the material figure that Lumilens has a "multi-billion-dollar customer agreement".

And just for reference, $POET Tech(POET.US) has existing contracts with Lumilens ($50m purchase order, up to $500m) + contracts with $SIVE (depending on product lines).

I actually took tiny positions in POET again after reading this news, since it finally gives them visibility into extremely well funded hyperscaler suppliers (on top of Poet's really large balance sheet).

But TLDR:

> Lumilens around similar (or even higher) valuations as Lightmatter/Ayar, bigger than markets thought with hyperscaler customers.

> nice read through upstream on $POET Tech(POET.US) (derisking) / $SIVE.

> Great for optical valuations in general, seeing a company go to $5.5B in 2 years.