Volantis

Contacts

• Official website: https://volantissemi.ai/
• Contact form (name and work email; the only inbound channel published on the site): https://volantissemi.ai/contact
• Careers page (30 roles listed as displayed 2026-10-01): https://volantissemi.ai/careers

Locations

Searching for Volantis? Which company, how to reach it, and what to check

This page is about Volantis, the semiconductor startup whose website is volantissemi.ai. On October 1, 2026 its press release (PR Newswire) said it "today announced an $88 million Series A"; Reuters reported the same day that the San Francisco-based startup "said it has raised $88 million in venture capital." Several other businesses use the name Volantis; the section on same-name businesses below lists the ones checked.

The company is building a product for data-center operators and AI-model operators, not for individual consumers. Its press release says its first system, A-1, "is being designed to run models exceeding 20 trillion parameters" and that it "plans to deliver its first integrated inference engines to customers in 2027." On the pages checked on 2026-10-01 (home, product, technology, about, careers, contact and the Series A post), the company published no price list, order flow, warranty, refund or cancellation terms, and no Terms of Service or Privacy Policy link.

• Reach the company: the only inbound channel published on volantissemi.ai is a form on volantissemi.ai/contact asking for a name and work email (the same "Get Access" form is linked from every page). The pages checked list no email address, phone number or street address.
• Check the source of a message, job offer or request that uses the Volantis name: compare it with the roles on volantissemi.ai/careers (30 roles were listed on 2026-10-01, each with an "Apply for this role" button on the company's site) and with the company's LinkedIn and X addresses linked in the site footer.
• If you apply for a job: the application form at volantissemi.ai/apply asks for name, email, phone and a resume and says "By applying, you agree that Volantis may use your information to evaluate your application." No link to a privacy notice or a data-retention statement appeared on that page on 2026-10-01.
• Read performance figures as the company's own claims. The press release says A-1 "is being designed" to the stated targets, and the company's own pages state some figures differently (see the background section).
• If you are asked to pay or invest in something described as Volantis, ask for the legal entity name and the offering documents. Reports can be made to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov and tips or complaints about securities to the SEC at sec.gov/submit-tip-or-complaint.

No consumer complaints about this company were found in the sources checked on 2026-10-01; what was checked is listed in the complaint-record section.

Company background

Who and what. Volantis describes itself as "a semiconductor company building a new architecture for AI inference" that "combines photonics and semiconductor design to increase memory capacity and bandwidth." The company's site says it builds "optical wires, not optical cables": an optical interconnect between compute chips and memory using integrated micro-VCSEL lasers ("No external lasers") and integrated waveguides. Its first product is called A-1.

Legal entity. The company's own site does not state a legal name. USPTO patent documents (published applications and granted patents) name the applicant and assignee as Volantis Semiconductor Inc. (for example US 2026/0173921 A1, published June 18, 2026) or Volantis Semiconductor, Inc. (for example granted patent US 12,721,191 B2), with Tapabrata Ghosh as an inventor. The addresses printed on those documents differ by filing date: Portland, OR on filings made from 2024 to January 2025, and San Mateo, CA on patent US 12,748,260 B1 (filed November 19, 2025). The state of incorporation is not stated here: California's business search was blocked by a CAPTCHA, and the Delaware and Oregon registries were not searched, so no Secretary of State record was read. A third-party website listing registration details was not used as a source.

Location. Reuters (October 1, 2026) calls Volantis "San Francisco-based" and the press release has a San Francisco dateline; optics.org's June 2025 coverage of the seed round described it as "a startup company in San Mateo, California." The company's job postings list "Hybrid Remote/SF Bay Area/Austin/Boston." No street address is published on volantissemi.ai.

People. The company's About page lists Tapa Ghosh as "Founder" (Thiel Fellow, ex-YC founder) and Roy Meade as "Co-Founder, CTO" ("Led Micron HBM Program, Ex-VP Ayar Labs"); the press release calls Tapa Ghosh "CEO and co-founder." The release says the team includes "semiconductor and photonics veterans from NVIDIA, AMD, Broadcom and Ayar Labs."

Funding (as announced by the company). The October 1, 2026 release describes an $88 million Series A "co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures, with participation from John Doerr, VXI Capital, Triatomic and Susa Ventures," plus angel investors Dwarkesh Patel, Naveen Rao and Sholto Douglas. The company's own news post says it brings funds raised to date to "$97M," and the page is dated September 29, 2026 while the PR Newswire release is dated October 1, 2026. A June 2025 seed round of $9 million was reported by optics.org. The company's About page also lists individuals it describes as backers, including Sam Altman and Jeff Dean. These are the company's statements; valuation and customer names were not disclosed in the sources checked.

Product claims differ between the company's own pages. The press release gives targets of models "exceeding 20 trillion parameters" at "up to 10,000 tokens per second per user." The home page says ">10T Parameter models" and "10K tok/s/user," while the home page's meta description says "1,000+ tok/s/user on frontier models." The product page lists "15x Tok/$ vs NVIDIA Rubin," "6x Tok/W for low-latency 1T+ MoEs" and ">30x lower latency," and says the first product "leverages existing and silicon-proven compute engine IP licensed from external parties" while "the risk lives in the photonic interconnect." None of these figures was independently verified for this page.

Patents. Justia's patent listing for inventor Tapabrata Ghosh, as displayed on 2026-10-01 (three result pages), shows 29 documents that name Volantis Semiconductor (spelled "Inc." or ", Inc.") as applicant or assignee: 3 granted patents (US 12,713,921, dated August 18, 2026; US 12,721,191 and US 12,721,244, both dated August 25, 2026) and 26 published applications (published between March 5 and July 30, 2026). Inventors named on those Justia entries include Ghosh, Kevin Nan Lam, John Sonkoly, Horst Wagner and Roy Edward Meade II. The USPTO Official Gazette separately lists US 12,748,260 B1 ("Wafer level optical routing", September 29, 2026), assigned to Volantis Semiconductor, Inc., San Mateo, CA, with Horst W. Wagner, Roy Edward Meade II, Ashutosh Rao and Carlos I. Dorta Quinones as inventors; Ghosh is not a named inventor on it, so it is not on his Justia list. These counts are one website's list as displayed that day, not a full patent-portfolio search, and a published application is not a granted patent.

Same-name businesses (checked, not this company).

• Volantis Systems, a mobile Internet software company: TechCrunch reported on February 7, 2011 that Antenna Software "announced it has acquired mobile Internet software company Volantis."
• Volantis (volantis.com.au), listed on Trustpilot as a web-hosting company with 3 reviews (3.8) as displayed on 2026-10-01; its own site describes Australian Minecraft server hosting.
• SEC Form D issuers whose names include "Volantis": an SEC full-text search for "Volantis" limited to Form D filings from 2024-01-01 to 2026-10-01 returned 10 filings by eight issuers: Volantis I, LP; Volantis Series A, a series of Ten6 Ventures SPV, LLC; Volantis Nash Apr 2026 a Series of CGF2021 LLC; Project Volantis Oct 2025 a Series of CGF2021 LLC; Ten6 Ventures - Volantis a Series of CGF2021 LLC; AVSF - Volantis 2026, LLC; 1798 Volantis Fund Ltd; and 1798 Volantis Catalyst III Ltd. The two 1798 Volantis issuers are Cayman Islands exempted companies whose Form D/A filings name Lombard Odier Asset Management as manager or contact. Form D filings do not name a portfolio company in the parts opened for this page, and this page does not state any connection between these issuers and the semiconductor company. No issuer named "Volantis Semiconductor" appeared in this search.
• Volantis Limousine Services (Elmhurst, IL) appears in BBB's directory under that name; it is a limousine service listing and not the company on this page.
• volantis.ai returned a redirect to a GoDaddy "for sale" listing URL when fetched on 2026-10-01; the semiconductor company's own site is volantissemi.ai.

Complaint record and what was checked

All snapshots below are as displayed on 2026-10-01 and are listed separately; they are different sources and are not combined.

• USAComplaints: 0 complaints about this company are published here.
• BBB: a BBB search for "Volantis" (55 results, 4 pages), a search near San Francisco (5 results) and a search for "Volantis Semiconductor" near San Mateo returned no listing for this company. No BBB profile for it was found in those searches.
• Trustpilot: the page trustpilot.com/review/volantissemi.ai returned "The page you're looking for could not be found." The first page of Trustpilot's search results for "volantis" showed one business named Volantis, volantis.com.au (a different business, see background).
• ComplaintsBoard: a search for "Volantis" showed no listing for this company.
• CFPB Consumer Complaint Database: the database's company-name lookup for "VOLANTIS" returned no company. The CFPB database covers financial companies, and Volantis describes itself as a semiconductor company.
• Courts: a CourtListener search for "Volantis Semiconductor" returned 0 results in RECAP dockets and 0 results in published opinions. Same-name dockets for other businesses were not examined.
• SEC EDGAR: a company-name search for "volantis" and a full-text search for "Volantis" (Form D filings, 2024-01-01 to 2026-10-01) returned no filer or issuer named Volantis Semiconductor; the Volantis-named issuers that did appear are listed in the background section. This is not a statement about whether a Form D for a new financing will be filed later.
• Regulators and registers: the California Attorney General's data-security-breach list, searched by organization name "volantis", displayed "There are currently no published reported breaches"; a BBB National Programs site search for "volantis" displayed "There are no results for that search." Other states' breach lists, state regulators' enforcement databases, FTC and CPSC records and the Secretary of State registries were not searched or could not be read for this page.

An absence of results in these sources means nothing was found there on 2026-10-01; it is not a statement that no complaint, dispute or filing exists elsewhere. The company is new to public attention (its Series A was announced the day this page was checked) and has not announced any customer deliveries.

Is Volantis Legitimate?

Facts that can be checked: a company using the name Volantis operates volantissemi.ai and is named as the source of a PR Newswire release dated October 1, 2026; Reuters separately reported the $88 million round the same day and quoted CEO Tapa Ghosh from an interview. USPTO patent documents (published applications and granted patents) list "Volantis Semiconductor Inc." or "Volantis Semiconductor, Inc." as applicant or assignee with Tapabrata Ghosh as an inventor. The company's careers page listed 30 open roles on 2026-10-01.

Not established in the sources checked: the company's state of incorporation, its registered office, a street address, or independent confirmation of the performance claims (the press release says A-1 "is being designed" to its targets and delivery is planned for 2027). In each source listed in the complaint-record section, the search run on 2026-10-01 returned no entry for this company; sources that were not searched are named there. This page assigns the company no rating or label of its own.

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