CollPlant Biotechnologies has acquired laser-based computing startup LightSolver.

While the financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, in a statement, CollPlant said the acquisition would utilize “an equity-centric consideration structure comprising upfront closing shares, alongside pre-funded warrants and milestone-based warrants directly tied to LightSolver meeting specific technological and commercial objectives.”

Founded in 2020 by Ruti Ben Shlomi and Chene Tradonsky, Israel-based LightSolver has developed the world’s first pure laser-based processing unit (LPU) that LightSolver says is poised to outpace and outperform quantum and supercomputers.

Its LPU100 system utilizes all-optical coupled lasers that require no electronics to compute and combines the company’s all-optical LPU hardware with an algorithmic processing layer to provide ultra-fast results for problems with up to one million variables.

The system is around the same size as a traditional desktop computer; it looks similar to a standard server and operates with low power requirements and at room temperature.

“Computing is reaching an inflection point. We believe the next great leap will come not from making transistors smaller, but from changing the very medium of computing – from electrons to light – unlocking a new era of speed and energy efficiency,” said Shlomi, founder and CEO of LightSolver. “We have turned that idea from fundamental physics into a working machine. As we move toward commercial availability, our ambition is for the LPU to become a new computing layer alongside CPUs and GPUs – compressing computational workloads that can take minutes, hours or even weeks into milliseconds of LPU computation.”

Eran Rotem, deputy CEO and CFO of CollPlant, added: “This transaction marks CollPlant’s entry into a market with massive growth potential, executed through a highly disciplined approach to capital allocation. Our goal is to support the continued development and commercialization of LightSolver’s technology while creating a new strategic growth opportunity for CollPlant.”