Eliyan raised a $145m Series C at a $1bn valuation to fix the data bottleneck between AI chips, adding Cisco and Lumentum for its optical push.

Umesh Padval, managing partner of Seligman Ventures, will also join the company’s board

SAN FRANCISCO, July 29 : Eliyan, a startup that aims to ease the bottlenecks in transferring data between AI chips in data centers, said on Wednesday it had raised $145 million in…