Vaysh Kewada is co-founder and CEO of Salience Labs, the Oxford photonics company building optical circuit switches for AI data centers. Her background includes McKinsey and a role as Entrepreneur in Residence at Oxford Sciences Innovation, where she worked with the academic founders before the spinout; one profile says she holds a physics MSc from Imperial College London.
Salience raised a $30 million Series A in 2025 and a $125 million Series B in October 2026. She is listed as a speaker at an Optica summit in Sunnyvale on October 21, 2026.