# GlobalFoundries

> GlobalFoundries is a VC fund backing Semiconductor and Hardware. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Saratoga Springs, United States
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 13%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/globalfoundries
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/GLOBALFOUNDRIES
- Website: http://globalfoundries.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GLOBALFOUNDRIES

GlobalFoundries is an American full-service semiconductor foundry that manufactures integrated circuits in high volume. The company’s client portfolio includes AMD, Broadcom,Qualcomm, and STMicroelectronics. GlobalFoundries has five 200mm fabrication plants in Singapore, and two 300 mm fabrication plants each in Germany and Singapore, alongwith a new 300mm fabrication plant in Malta, Saratoga County, New York.GlobalFoundries was established on March 2, 2009 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

## Contacts

5 contacts available for GlobalFoundries. Shizune tracks 7 team members at GlobalFoundries. Sign up free to unlock them: https://app.shizune.co/sign-up/investor-profiles/find-team-emails/globalfoundries?utm_source=investor_profile

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Semiconductor | 5 | 63% |
| Hardware | 2 | 25% |
| Electronics | 2 | 25% |
| Manufacturing | 2 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 2 | 25% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 2 | 25% |
| Series C | 1 | 13% |
| Series H | 1 | 13% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 13% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Durn | EVP, CFO & Administration | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-durn |
| DK Sohn | VP | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dk-sohn |
| Peter Gammel | CTO, MWI | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-gammel |
| Thomas Caulfield | CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tom-caulfield |
| Anubhav Gupta | CTO, IoT & Wearables | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anub-gupta |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Finwave Semiconductor | Finwave Semiconductor develops a 3DGaN technology designed to enhance 5G devices. | $8.2M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 14, 2025 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $155M | Series D | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Efabless | efabless connects a global community of chip designers with smart product customers. The company was founded to revive demand-driven innovation in the semiconductor industry.The company brings back the "Garage" to the vocabulary of the semiconductor industry. Efabless builds products that spark from effective customer-centricinnovation, engineered by great talented minds across the globe and manufactured by their dependable foundry partners. | $6.3M | Series A | Oct 10, 2023 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $25M | Series C | May 24, 2023 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $35M | Series B | Nov 05, 2020 |  |
| Ayar Labs | Ayar Labs develops a monolithic in-package optical I/O (MIPO) solution for applications that require high bandwidth, low latency, and power-efficient short-reach interconnects.The company disrupts the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving improvement in interconnectbandwidth density at lower power. Its patented approach uses industry-standard cost-effective silicon processing techniques to develop high speed, high density, low power optical-based interconnect “chiplets” and lasers to replace traditional electrical-based I/O. Ayar’s flagship product is a chip called TeraPhy that implements its optical technology on compact silicon die. The chip can be integrated directly into a central processing unit, graphics card, or another processor to give it optical data transmission capabilities.The Emeryville, California-headquartered company was established in 2015 by Alex Wright-Gladstein, Vladimir Stojanovic, Chen Sun, and Mark Wade. | $24M | Series A | Nov 08, 2018 |  |
| Aquantia | At Aquantia, all three elements are present in abundance. Aquantia benefits from team members with a depth of diverse technology development expertise, signal processing innovation and an adherence to lean and agile management practices. Their engineers were at the forefront ofthe Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet product deployments, and areamong the best in production silicon design.Meet their leadership team, or the board and investors to see their guidance, financial backing and the company they've built. |  | Series H | Oct 05, 2015 |  |
| EverSpin Technologies | Everspin Technologies develops and manufactures integrated magnetic products It was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona. | $7M | Series B | Jan 26, 2015 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does GlobalFoundries invest in?

GlobalFoundries invests primarily in Semiconductor, Hardware and Electronics startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at GlobalFoundries?

The team at GlobalFoundries includes Daniel Durn (EVP, CFO & Administration), DK Sohn (VP) and Peter Gammel (CTO, MWI), among 7 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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