Luma Optics, a provider of AI optical interconnect hardware, has secured the No. 47 spot on the 2025 Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine's annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America, based on a 5,757% three-year revenue growth. The placement puts Luma Optics in the top 1% of all 5,000 companies recognized, alongside past honorees such as Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, and Patagonia.
The recognition comes at a critical juncture for the AI industry, where the bottleneck in data centers has shifted from compute power to data movement, as frontier model training and inference push GPU clusters beyond the capacity of copper interconnect. Luma Optics designs its AI optical interconnect hardware specifically to address bandwidth, latency, and thermal requirements that copper-based solutions cannot meet at scale.
"Every AI breakthrough now depends on how fast light can move between chips," said Eric Litvin, Co-Founder of Luma Optics. "We built Luma for this exact moment. Ranking No. 47 on the Inc. 5000 isn't a vanity milestone - it's a signal that the market has decided optical is the only path forward for heavy AI, and that Luma is executing against that reality faster than anyone else."
While much of the optics industry operates within legacy telecom form factors, Luma Optics has focused on the hardware profile required for large-scale AI deployments, including heavy-workload optimization for training clusters and inference fabrics, higher bandwidth density per rack unit, lower power draw per bit, and production-grade reliability with a field failure rate under 0.01% across over 500,000 units shipped.
The 5,757% three-year growth trajectory reflects documented design wins and repeat orders from operators running demanding compute infrastructure. Founded in 2004 by Eric Litvin, Luma Optics has over two decades of experience in optical interconnect reliability, manufacturing process development, and deployment at scale. With operations in Sebastopol, California, and the Netherlands, the company serves North American hyperscale customers and European sovereign AI programs.
Learn more at lumaoptics.net. For executive commentary and speaking requests for Eric Litvin, visit ericlitvin.ai/press.
