December 11, 2015
Herald Scotland Interviews Kaiam CEO About the Company’s Expanding Horizons
Kaiam’s CEO, Bardia Pezeshki, recently spoke with Herald Scotland about the unique advantages of growing manufacturing, research and development in Scotland to meet the world’s appetite for connectivity using high-speed optical components. The Scottish optronics industry grew on the promise of demand from consumers and the telecoms industry for the technology needed to increase bandwidth. That demand has now mushroomed but from a new source: the datacentres needed to make internet connections across the globe.
October 28, 2015
Kaiam Europe Ltd Shortlisted for the 2015 NMI Innovation Award
Kaiam Europe Ltd has been named a finalist for a 2015 NMI Innovation Award. This award is given to a company that can demonstrate a significant business impact through innovation. This can cover any aspects of innovation whether in business process, manufacturing, service provision or product development. NMI presents awards to recognise the achievements and behaviours that are conducive to a healthy and vibrant industry in the UK and Ireland. The awards showcase excellence within the industry rewarding the innovation, expertise and ambition of businesses.
October 22, 2015
Kaiam Boosts Headcount as Group Secures Top Tech Work
Scotland’s national newspaper The Scotsman is reporting that Kaiam has landed one of its largest contracts to date as the company’s Livingston facility returns to employment levels not seen for more than a decade. Those employment numbers were confirmed as Kaiam unveiled a new multi-million pound contract to supply what it described as one of the “world’s top technology companies”. A spokesman said it is one of the highest-value deals in the history of Kaiam, founded in 2010 by chief executive Bardia Pezeshki.
September 9, 2015
Kaiam Makes EE Times’ Silicon 60 — 2015′s Startups to Watch
EE Times has named Kaiam Corporation one of 30 new startups added to their Silicon 60: 2015′s Startups to Watch. EE Times has been updating and publishing the Silicon 60 since April 2004 to reflect the latest corporate, commercial, technology and market conditions. The selection is based on consideration of a mix of criteria including: technology, intended market, financial position, investment profile, maturity and executive leadership.
September 22, 2014
News of Kaiam’s $35M Series in New Equity Funding Reaches Around the Globe to China
The following Chinese language publications reported on Kaiam’s latest financial round:
C114 — C114 is the earliest & leading professional online media focused on ICT industry. They reported on Kaiam’s latest round of funding in their FTTx section.
C-Fol — China Fiber Optics Online also reported on this important milestone in Kaiam’s growth as a vital force in the optics industry.
Info Stone — Infostone Communication Consultant (Shenzhen) Ltd. (ICCSZ) is the widest spreading and selling platform of online communication products in China.
March 11, 2014
OFC 2014 Reporter’s Notebook – Day 1
THE LIGHTWAVE BLOG — Meanwhile, Kaiam also is interested in jumping into the 1-2 km CWDM-based transceiver fray. The company unveiled its first QSFP+ LR4 optical transceiver, for 40GbE, but has its sights clearly set on 100G. The company is showing off a 4x28G TOSA for such a transceiver in its booth. Kaiam President and CEO Bardia Pezeshki, who was with Santur when that company developed its 10x10G transceiver before being acquired by NeoPhotonics, says the lack of widespread support among module vendors for the MSA had as much to do with technological limitations — in short, how to support 10 wavelengths of 10G and meet the MSA specifications — as anything else. He’s very bullish on the market prospects for a CWDM-based approach to the 1-2 km 100G application question…
August 28, 2013
Fiber Optics Tech Startup Kaiam Raises $20 Million
Silicon Valley Business Journal — Kaiam Corp., a Newark company that makes hardware used in fiber optics communications networks, disclosed on Wednesday that it has raised $20 million in new funding…
May 13, 2013
Hybrid Integration Specialist Kaiam Acquires Gemfire
Gazettabyte — Kaiam Corp. has secured US $16M in C-round funding and completed the acquisition of Gemfire. With the acquisition, Kaiam gains planar lightwave circuit (PLC) technology and Gemfire’s 8-inch wafer fab in Scotland. This is important for the start-up given there are few remaining independent suppliers of PLC technology…
March 14, 2013
Oplink and Kaiam to Jointly Demonstrate 10×10 40km CFP Transceiver at OFC/NFOEC 2013
Financial Content — Oplink Communications, Inc. (OPLK), a leading provider of design, integration and optical manufacturing solutions (OMS) for optical networking components, modules and subsystems, and Kaiam Corporation, a leader in hybrid Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) technology, today announced a joint demonstration of the 100Gbps 10×10 40km CFP transceiver technologies for extended reach (ER) 100Gbps applications at OFC/NFOEC 2013 in Anaheim, CA…
