Ayar Labs is disrupting the traditional performance, cost, and efficiency curves of the semiconductor and computing industries by driving a 1000x improvement in interconnect bandwidth density at 10x lower power. Ayar Labs' 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. The company was founded in 2015 and is funded by a number of domestic and international Venture Capital firms as well as strategic investors.

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Funding Events

Date	Amount	Type	Investors	Valuation
11/05/20	$35,000,000	Series B	Applied Ventures BlueSky Capital Castor Ventures Downing Ventures Founders Fund GLOBALFOUNDRIES Intel Capital Lockheed Martin Ventures Playground Global SGInnovate	undisclosed
04/26/22	$130,000,000	Series C	Agave SPV Applied Ventures Atreides Capital Berkeley Frontier Fund Boardman Bay Capital Management GLOBALFOUNDRIES Hewlett Packard Enterprise IAG Capital Partners Infinitum Capital Intel Capital Lockheed Martin Ventures Nautilus Venture Partners NVIDIA Tyche Partners	undisclosed
05/24/23	$25,000,000	Series C-1	Applied Ventures Boardman Bay Capital Management Capital TEN GLOBALFOUNDRIES Hewlett Packard Pathfinder IAG Capital Partners Intel Capital Lockheed Martin Ventures NVIDIA Tyche Partners Venture Tech Associates	undisclosed
12/11/24	$155,000,000	Series D	3M Ventures Advent Global Opportunities AMD Ventures Applied Ventures Autopilot Axial Partners Boardman Bay Capital Management GLOBALFOUNDRIES IAG Capital Partners Intel Capital Light Street Capital Lockheed Martin Ventures NVIDIA Playground Global VentureTech Alliance	$1,000,000,000