(Note: GigCapital6, Inc. withdrew its plans for its SPAC IPO in an SEC filing dated Dec. 13, 2022. The blank check company – the sixth one backed by Dr. Avi Katz, the founder, chairman and CEO of GigCapital – filed its S-1 in March 2021.)

We intend to focus on companies in the TMT (telecom, media and tech), cloud connectivity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics, aerospace and defense, biotechnology, medical technology, pharma tech, medical equipment, semiconductors, cybersecurity, privacy and sustainable industries. The goal is to acquire or form an initial business combination with a company that could grow to over $400 million in enterprise value and shape the world of tomorrow. (Incorporated in Delaware)

We are one of seven SPACs affiliated with GigCapital Global, with the other six being GigCapital, Inc. (“GIG1”), which successfully completed its business combination with Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE American: KLR) in November 2019; GigCapital2, Inc. (“GIG2”), which successfully completed its business combination with UpHealth Holding, Inc. and Cloudbreak Health, LLC (NYSE: UPH) in June 2021; GigCapital3, Inc. (“GIG3”), which successfully completed its business combination with Lightning Systems, Inc. (doing business as Lightning eMotors) (NYSE: ZEV) in May 2021; GigCapital4, Inc. (“GIG4”), which successfully completed its business combination with BigBear.ai Holdings, LLC in December 2021 (NYSE: BBAI); GigInternational1, Inc. (Nasdaq: GIW) (“GigInternational1”), which completed its initial public offering in May 2021 and is now engaged in intensive efforts of searching and screening companies worldwide, and GigCapital5, Inc. (NYSE: GIA) (“GIG5”), which completed its initial public offering in September 2021 and is now engaged in intensive efforts of searching and screening companies worldwide.

Dr. Avi Katz and Dr. Raluca Dinu are the co-founders of GigCapital6, Inc. Dr. Katz is the executive chairman. Dr. Dinu is the CEO, president and secretary of GigCapital 6, Inc. They are also married.

His involvement with blank check companies goes back to October 2017. Before that, Dr. Katz dedicated 10 years to incept and bootstrap, develop and manage GigPeak (NYSE American: formerly GIG), originally known as GigOptix, Inc. He served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of GigOptix / GigPeak. From its inception in 2007 until its sale in April 2017 to IDT for $250 million in cash, GigPeak provided semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) and software solutions for high-speed connectivity and video compression.

Dr. Katz is a graduate of the 1976 class of the Israeli Naval Academy, a graduate of the 1979 USA Naval ASW class, and holds a B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Semiconductors Materials from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology).

From April 2017 to May 2019, Dr. Dinu was the vice president and general manager of IDT’s Optical Interconnects Division. Prior to that, she held several executive-level positions at GigPeak, including executive vice president and chief operation officer from April 2016 until it was acquired by IDT in April 2017, and before that, as its executive vice president of Global Sales and Marketing from August 2015 to April 2016, and as its senior vice president of Global Sales and Marketing from December 2014 to August 2015.

Dr. Dinu holds a B.Sc. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Solid State Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Bucharest, and an Executive M.B.A. from Stanford University.