Arago - About the company
Arago is a seed company based in Paris (France), founded in 2024 by Nicolas Muller, Ambroise Muller and Eliott Sarrey. It operates as a Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput. Arago has raised $26.2M in funding from investors like Earlybird, Protagonist and Visionaries Tomorrow. The company has 13 active competitors, including 6 that are funded. Its top competitors include companies like Neurophos, ORCA and nEye.
Company Details
Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput. The company has built a photonic AI accelerator that leverages light as a computing principle. The chip maximizes performance per watt and per dollar, to power AI workloads with significantly lower energy and cost overhead. Its architecture is designed to deliver reductions in energy consumption. The AI unit accelerates high-volume AI tasks with proprietary multi-physics computing core. The control unit maximizes memory transfer efficiency and speeds up pointwise operations. The software stack interfaces with PyTorch and abstracts away low-level hardware details, enabling developers to deploy and scale AI models without modifying their existing codebase.
- Website
- www.arago.inc/
- Email ID
- *****@arago.inc
Key Metrics
Founded Year
2024
Location
Paris, France
Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$26.2M in 2 rounds
Latest Funding Round
Ranked
5th among 13 active competitors
Employee Count
51 as on Sep 30, 2026
Legal entities associated with Arago
Arago is associated with 2 legal entities given below:
Legal Entity Name | Date of Incorporation | Revenue | Latest Employee Count | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hellomed Group Gmbh CIN: HRB247544 , Germany, Active | Nov 14, 2022 | - | - | |
Arago Computing CIN: 983361619 , France, Deadpooled | Jan 15, 2024 | - | - | - |
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Arago's funding and investors
Arago has raised a total funding of $26.2M over 2 rounds. Its latest funding round was a Seed round on Jul 08, 2025 for $*****. 10 investors participated in its latest round. Arago has 7 institutional investors and 6 angel investors.
Here is the list of recent funding rounds of Arago:
Date of Funding | Funding Amount | Round Name | Post-Money Valuation | Revenue Multiple | Lead Investors | Other Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 08, 2025 | 7297640 | Seed | 1227633 | 1346805 | 8405940 | 4251499 |
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Arago's founders and board of directors
Founder? Claim ProfileThe founders of Arago are Nicolas Muller, Ambroise Muller and Eliott Sarrey. Nicolas Muller is the CEO of Arago.
Here are the details of Arago's key team members:
- Nicolas Muller: Co-Founder & CEO of Arago. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Ambroise Muller: Co-Founder & CSO of Arago. Contact Info: 1 email address
- Eliott Sarrey: Co-Founder & CTO of Arago. Contact Info: 1 email address
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Arago's employee count trend
Arago has 51 employees as of Sep 26. Here is Arago's employee count trend over the years:
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Arago's Competitors and alternates
Top competitors of Arago include Neurophos, ORCA and nEye. Here is the list of Top 10 competitors of Arago, ranked by Tracxn score:
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Rank | Company Details | Short Description | Total Funding | Investors | Tracxn Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st | Neurophos 2020, Austin (United States), Series A | Platform that deliver GPU-level performance in a compact, energy-efficient form using optical computing and metamaterials | $120M | 65/100 | |
2nd | ORCA 2019, London (United Kingdom), Series A | Developer of photonic quantum computing systems for machine learning applications | $18.7M | 63/100 | |
3rd | nEye 2020, Emeryville (United States), Series C | Provider of integrated silicon photonic switch for AI computing | $152M | 62/100 | |
4th | Lumai 2022, Oxford (United Kingdom), Series A | Manufacturer of optical computing systems for artificial intelligence inference workloads | $12.4M | 59/100 | |
5th | Developer of photonic AI accelerator optimized for energy efficiency and high throughput | $26.2M | 48/100 | ||
6th | Fabric.AI 2025, New York (United States), Series C | Developer of semiconductor technologies using optical interconnects for data centers | $73.1M | - | 38/100 |
7th | Invigion Technologies 2024, Bengaluru (India), Unfunded | Provider of photonics processors that accelerate AI workloads, supercomputing for drug discovery, weather forecasting | - | - | 24/100 |
8th | Provider of AI accelerator solutions | - | 22/100 | ||
9th | ![]() Photonics LLM Unfunded | Developer of photonic processors for accelerating large language model inference | - | - | 16/100 |
10th | ![]() LightRail AI Unfunded | Developer of photonic computing infrastructure for artificial intelligence model workloads | - | - | 16/100 |
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Arago's Investments and acquisitions
Arago has made no investments or acquisitions yet.
Reports related to Arago
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News related to Arago
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German DeepTech startup yasp raises €4.2 million to accelerate AI model optimisationEU-Startups•Sep 25, 2025•yasp, Arago, Corintis, Futurail and 3 others
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Arago raises $26M to slash AI energy consumption with new photonic chipEvertiq•Jul 08, 2025•C4 Ventures, GenerativeIQ, Visionaries Tomorrow, Protagonist and 2 others
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Arago raises $26M to slash AI energy consumption with breakthrough photonic chipTech.eu•Jul 08, 2025•C4 Ventures, GenerativeIQ, Visionaries Tomorrow, Protagonist and 2 others
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