Dmitry Akhanov

Board Member at NeoPhotonics

📍 Moscow, Moscow City, Russia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2013
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Board Member
2013
We are excited to announce that Marvell Semiconductor has acquired Aquantia! Follow Marvell: http://bit.ly/LN-Marvell Aquantia was founded with the vision of revolutionizing Ethernet and accelerating connectivity. As mobility and data consolidation in the cloud continues to gain momentum, we’re addressing the need for Multi-Gig Ethernet solutions that serve a variety of markets and products at both ends of the network, where data is stored and consumed, and where bottlenecks are created. Today, as the leader in Multi-Gig connectivity we provide solutions for Data Center, Enterprise Infrastructure, Access . Every year, more than a billion ports of Ethernet ship into a wide variety of platforms. These platforms have started to convert from outdated Gigabit Ethernet to Multi-Gigabit Ethernet as the insatiable demand for bandwidth and data continues to grow. Looking to the future, we will continue to address the Multi-Gig upgrade cycles across existing and new markets by introducing new technologies. Never hesitating to question the status quo, Aquantia is leading the Multi-Gig revolution.
Board Member
2013
Quantenna (Nasdaq:QTNA) is the global leader and innovator of high performance Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts into the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, system to software, to assess Wi-Fi networks and provides total solutions for service providers worldwide.
Board Member
2013
Soft Machines is a semiconductor company co-developing VISC architecture-based processor and SoC products for all major performance computing platforms and has raised close to $175 million in funding to date. Corporate headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, U.S., with operations in India and Russia.
Board Member
2013
World-class research doesn't make compromises, so BiOptix exists to make superior label-free detection technologies more accessible to researchers worldwide. BiOptix has developed a new class of analytical biosensor instrumentation utilizing a patented high-throughput label-free technology known as ESPR – Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance - which was developed by BiOptix in conjunction with Dr. John ‘Jan’ Hall, Professor Adjunct of Physics at the University of Colorado, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005. Our flagship ESPR product is the 404pi, a groundbreaking SPR instrument providing scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of biomolecular interactions with an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument at a price point that is hundreds of thousands of dollars less than systems with equivalent performance. The 404pi concurrently offers industry-leading reliability, easy to use software for experimental design and instrument control, greater experimental flexibility, and far lower operating costs than competing instruments. BiOptix instrumentation allows researchers to study almost any biomolecular interaction in a label-free manner, including protein-protein interaction, protein-small molecule interaction, antibody-antigen interactions, and much more. Further applications include include kinetic rate determination, fragment screening, epitope mapping and affinity measurement. For more information, please visit our website at www.bioptix.com
mid stageBiotechnology
Board Member
2013
Joule has pioneered a CO2-to-fuel production platform, effectively reversing combustion through the use of solar energy. The company’s platform applies engineered catalysts to continuously convert waste CO2 directly into renewable fuels such as ethanol or hydrocarbons for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. Free of feedstock constraints and complex processing, Joule’s process can achieve unrivaled scalability, volumes and costs without the use of any agricultural land, fresh water or crops. Joule is privately held and has raised over $160 million in funding to date, led by Flagship Ventures. The company operates from Bedford, Massachusetts and The Hague, The Netherlands, with production operations in Hobbs, New Mexico. Additional information is available at www.jouleunlimited.com.
late stageOil and Gas
Board Member
2013
Lumentum has acquired NeoPhotonics. Get updates on former NeoPhotonics products by following Lumentum.
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2013
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2013
We are excited to announce that Marvell Semiconductor has acquired Aquantia! Follow Marvell: http://bit.ly/LN-Marvell Aquantia was founded with the vision of revolutionizing Ethernet and accelerating connectivity. As mobility and data consolidation in the cloud continues to gain momentum, we’re addressing the need for Multi-Gig Ethernet solutions that serve a variety of markets and products at both ends of the network, where data is stored and consumed, and where bottlenecks are created. Today, as the leader in Multi-Gig connectivity we provide solutions for Data Center, Enterprise Infrastructure, Access . Every year, more than a billion ports of Ethernet ship into a wide variety of platforms. These platforms have started to convert from outdated Gigabit Ethernet to Multi-Gigabit Ethernet as the insatiable demand for bandwidth and data continues to grow. Looking to the future, we will continue to address the Multi-Gig upgrade cycles across existing and new markets by introducing new technologies. Never hesitating to question the status quo, Aquantia is leading the Multi-Gig revolution.
Board Member
2013
Quantenna (Nasdaq:QTNA) is the global leader and innovator of high performance Wi-Fi solutions. Founded in 2006, Quantenna has demonstrated its leadership in Wi-Fi technologies with many industry firsts into the market. Quantenna continues to innovate with the mission to perfect Wi-Fi by establishing benchmarks for speed, range, efficiency and reliability. Quantenna takes a multidimensional approach, from silicon, system to software, to assess Wi-Fi networks and provides total solutions for service providers worldwide.
Board Member
2013
Soft Machines is a semiconductor company co-developing VISC architecture-based processor and SoC products for all major performance computing platforms and has raised close to $175 million in funding to date. Corporate headquarters are in Santa Clara, California, U.S., with operations in India and Russia.
Board Member
2013
World-class research doesn't make compromises, so BiOptix exists to make superior label-free detection technologies more accessible to researchers worldwide. BiOptix has developed a new class of analytical biosensor instrumentation utilizing a patented high-throughput label-free technology known as ESPR – Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance - which was developed by BiOptix in conjunction with Dr. John ‘Jan’ Hall, Professor Adjunct of Physics at the University of Colorado, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2005. Our flagship ESPR product is the 404pi, a groundbreaking SPR instrument providing scientists that require label-free, real-time detection of biomolecular interactions with an extremely high sensitivity, low noise instrument at a price point that is hundreds of thousands of dollars less than systems with equivalent performance. The 404pi concurrently offers industry-leading reliability, easy to use software for experimental design and instrument control, greater experimental flexibility, and far lower operating costs than competing instruments. BiOptix instrumentation allows researchers to study almost any biomolecular interaction in a label-free manner, including protein-protein interaction, protein-small molecule interaction, antibody-antigen interactions, and much more. Further applications include include kinetic rate determination, fragment screening, epitope mapping and affinity measurement. For more information, please visit our website at www.bioptix.com
mid stageBiotechnology
Board Member
2013
Joule has pioneered a CO2-to-fuel production platform, effectively reversing combustion through the use of solar energy. The company’s platform applies engineered catalysts to continuously convert waste CO2 directly into renewable fuels such as ethanol or hydrocarbons for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline. Free of feedstock constraints and complex processing, Joule’s process can achieve unrivaled scalability, volumes and costs without the use of any agricultural land, fresh water or crops. Joule is privately held and has raised over $160 million in funding to date, led by Flagship Ventures. The company operates from Bedford, Massachusetts and The Hague, The Netherlands, with production operations in Hobbs, New Mexico. Additional information is available at www.jouleunlimited.com.
late stageOil and Gas
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