VectorWave

VectorWave, founded in 2024 by Dr. Ronald Davis, is a Boston-based company operating in the telecommunications service providers industry. The company was established to commercialize analog computing architectures that Dr. Davis developed during his doctoral studies at MIT and his work at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. His research, published in Science Advances, introduced the first hardware accelerator capable of performing AI inference on raw radio frequency signals without needing pre-processing or digitization.

The core of VectorWave's business is its electromagnetic spectrum platform, which is designed to improve spectrum utilization and create new access points in congested and contested environments. The company is developing AI hardware accelerators that use advanced analog signal processing to dynamically manage the wireless spectrum. This approach addresses the increasing demand for higher data rates driven by 5G modernization, media consumption, and teleworking, which is projected to exceed the capacity of the currently allocated spectrum. Traditional digital processors face a trade-off between high performance and sustainable size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), and VectorWave's analog AI hardware accelerator aims to provide ultra-fast performance while maintaining the superior SWaP-C of analog systems.

A key product is the MAFT-ONN (Multiplicative Analog Frequency Transform Optical Neural Network), an AI hardware accelerator that leverages the physics of analog components for fully-programmable signal processing. This technology has demonstrated the ability to classify RF modulation schemes with a latency of 120 nanoseconds and an accuracy that can reach up to 99%. In June 2025, VectorWave announced it had raised $2.5 million in seed funding from dual-use investors J2 Ventures and Coalition Ventures. This capital is intended to expand the company's operations and development efforts. The leadership team includes co-founder Tom Hennessey and founding advisor Dr. Charles Dietlein, who has 15 years of experience in federal government leadership in electromagnetics R&D and spectrum management.

Keywords: telecommunications, electromagnetic spectrum, analog computing, AI hardware accelerator, spectrum utilization, wireless communications, signal processing, radio frequency, MAFT-ONN, spectrum management, 5G modernization, analog AI, dual-use technology, spectral efficiency, RF modulation, J2 Ventures, Coalition Ventures, Ronald Davis, contested environments, dynamic spectrum management