LOS ANGELES (December 24, 2025) - Perkins Coie is pleased to have advised Lucidean, a Santa Barbara–based AI interconnect company pioneering coherent optical links for data centers, on a $18 million seed financing round that was co-led by Entrada Ventures and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with participation from Foothill Ventures, M Ventures, Cerberus Ventures, and Raptor Group.
Lucidean plans to use the seed funding to expand its research and development efforts, to validate the performance and efficiency of its CohZero™ platform, and accelerate productization. Additional information on Lucidean’s seed round is available here.
The Perkins Coie Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) advisory team included partner Matt Oshinsky, counsel Suzana Gadzo, and paralegal Carl Vosicka.
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