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Piris Labs (YC W26) — The networking layer of AI

Up to 80% of the most advance AI compute chips sits idle because of slow networking. Piris Labs builds photonic based networking solutions to enable fast, scalable, and low cost AI workload execution infrastructure.

Piris Labs is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: The Networking Layer of AI. The founders listed are Ali Khalatpour (Founder/CEO), Keyvan Moghadam (Founder/President) (Y Combinator directory entry, February 12, 2026).

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Piris Labs

New accelerator entry · 2026-02-12 · the record

Winter 2026
batch
8
people
Early
stage
United States of America
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BatchWinter 2026
Announced2026-02-12
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size8
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Infrastructure
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, Hard Tech, Hardware, Infrastructure
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringYes
Sitehttps://pirislabs.io/
Previously known asPiris Inc., Pirislabs

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Up to 80% of the most advance AI compute chips sits idle because of slow networking. Piris Labs builds photonic based networking solutions to enable fast, scalable, and low cost AI workload execution infrastructure.

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