500,000 Units Shipped and a No. 47 Inc. 5000 Rank Mark Luma Optics’ AI Optical Push
Sebastopol, United States – April 29, 2026 / Luma Optics /
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. – April 14, 2026 – Luma Optics announced it has been named No. 47 on the 2025 Inc. 5000, Inc. magazine’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America, based on 5,757% three-year revenue growth. The placement positions Luma Optics in the top 1% of all 5,000 companies recognized and puts it among past honorees including Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, and Patagonia.
The Luma Optics Inc. 5000 recognition comes as the AI industry reaches a critical infrastructure threshold. As frontier model training and inference push GPU clusters beyond the capacity of copper interconnect, the constraint inside the data center has shifted from compute power to data movement. Luma Optics designs its AI optical interconnect hardware specifically for that environment – addressing the 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.”
Ahead of the competition on the workloads that matter most
While much of the optics industry continues to operate within legacy telecom form factors, Luma Optics has focused on the hardware profile that large-scale AI deployments require: heavy-workload optimization for training clusters and inference fabrics; higher bandwidth density per rack unit than competing solutions; lower power draw per bit, directly addressing the energy constraints facing hyperscalers; and production-grade reliability validated in real AI deployments, with a field failure rate under 0.01% across 500,000+ units shipped.
A 5,757% three-year growth trajectory reflects more than favorable market conditions. It represents documented design wins and repeat orders from operators running some of the most demanding compute infrastructure in production today.
Built over twenty years for today’s AI infrastructure
The Eric Litvin Inc. 5000 recognition is grounded in a company history that predates the AI infrastructure market as a defined category. Luma Optics was co-founded by Eric Litvin in 2004, giving the company over two decades of practical experience in optical interconnect reliability, manufacturing process development, and deployment at scale. With operations in Sebastopol, California, and the Netherlands, Luma Optics serves both North American hyperscale customers and European sovereign AI programs.
About the Inc. 5000
The Inc. 5000 is the most recognized ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. Companies are ranked by percentage revenue growth over a three-year period.
About Luma Optics
Luma Optics builds the optical hardware that powers the world’s heaviest AI workloads. Founded in 2004 by a team with deep roots in photonics, systems engineering, and hyperscale infrastructure – including Co-Founder Eric Litvin – Luma Optics serves AI labs, cloud providers, and enterprise operators pushing the limits of what is computationally possible. Learn more at lumaoptics.net. For executive commentary, interviews, and speaking requests for Eric Litvin, visit ericlitvin.ai/press.
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