Lam Capital News

Date	News Item
6/24/2024	Why Lam Research funds startups to disrupt the semiconductor industry | Audrey Charles interview Dean Takahashi, author at VentureBeat, had an interview with Audrey Charles on the 2024 Lam Capital Venture Competition.  Read more.
6/10/2024	Crystal Sonic wins $250K investment at the 2024 Lam Capital Venture Competition Lam Capital hosted its third venture competition, themed “Enabling Future Semiconductors,” at Lam Research’s Fremont headquarters. The one-of-a-kind event brought together a community of seasoned investors and startups from around the world to support and celebrate semiconductor innovations.   Read more.
6/4/2024	Asetek Announces Collaboration With Fabric8labs to Redefine Industry Leading Performance Fabric8labs, a leading innovator in metal 3d printing, started a strategic partnership with Asetek.  Read more.
3/22/2024	Silicon Box to Invest $3.5 Billion in New Chip Plant in Italy Lam Capital's portfolio company, Silicon Box will invest 3.2 billion euros in a new plant in northern Italy under a government-backed deal.  Read more.
1/9/2024	Silicon Box Accelerated Advanced Packaging Leadership with Mass Production and Successfully Closed Series B Fundraising Silicon Box revealed its $2B advanced packaging factory in Singapore has been in mass production and has successfully closed Series B funding to expand production rapidly.  Read more.
9/6/2023	Lam Capital Invests in d-Matrix, Making in-memory-compute for AI and LLM Inference d-Matrix raises $110M for AI inference from investment firms Temasek and Playground Global as well as M12, Microsoft’s venture capital fund. Read more.
8/21/2023	Lam Capital Invests in Membrion Sustainable Solutions for Industrial and Semiconductor Wastewater Electro-desalination membrane manufacturer, Membrion raised $12.5M of Series B.  Read more.
8/1/2023	TetraMem Inc's Team Published an Article in Nature TetraMem Inc. and its research collaborators published an article in nature discussing memristor technology as hardware accelerators of machine learning and artificial intelligence for edge applications. Read more.
7/26/23	Silicon Box Launches Semiconductor Packaging Fab in Singapore Lam Capital portfolio company, Silicon Box opens $2B advanced packaging fab in Singapore.  Read more.
5/31/23	Geminus: AI Can Help Solve Climate Problems CNN interview with Geminus CEO on how AI can mitigate climate crisis. Read more.
4/14/23	Physicians Discover New Use Cases for EchoPixels Dr. Atoui uses EchoPixel’s HTG for first time and sees additional opportunities for use. Read more.
2/7/23	Fabric8Labs Closes $50M Series B Financing Lam Capital portfolio company, Fabric8Labs closes $50M series B financing for electrochemical additive manufacturing technology. Read more.
12/2/22	Semiconductor Industry Leaders Gather to Engineer a Greener Fab A pitch competition on “engineering a greener fab” was hosted by Lam Capital on Oct. 7th. Of the 50 global companies who applied, 11 finalists pitched their best ideas in front of a panel of judges. The winning team—xLight—was offered a $250,000 investment from Lam Capital.   Read more.
8/22/22	Lam Capital Venture Competition Apply today to the Lam Capital Venture Competition! This year's theme is "Engineering a Greener Fab".  Read more.
2/10/2022	GCV Rising Stars: Kevin Chen Kevin Chen, partner of Lam Capital was awarded by Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) as a "Rising Star" winner. Read more.
10/8/2021	Call to Startups: Help to Drive Sustainable Chip Manufacturing Innovations Lam Research, as a SEMI member, is calling for startups with eco-friendly innovations for semiconductor manufacturing to present their ideas at the Semi Sustainability Pitch Event.  Read more.
9/30/2021	Velo3D Completes Merger with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation to Become a Publicly Traded, Additive-Manufacturing Technology Company Velo3D’s Common Stock to Begin Trading on the New York Stock Exchange Under the Ticker “VLD” on September 30, 2021. Read more.
9/20/2021	Pacific Biosciences Closes Acquisition of Omniome Pacific Biosciences acquired Omniome, a San Diego-based biotechnology company developing a proprietary and highly differentiated short-read sequencing platform capable of delivering increased sequencing accuracy.  Read more.
9/8/2021	Holo Raises Series B Investment Adding Investor Lam Capital Holo, as the leader in high resolution, production scale additively manufactured metal parts, has attracted new investment from Lam Capital. Read more.
7/22/2021	Lam Capital Managing Director Faran Nouri Named to GCV Powerlist 100 for 2021 Faran Nouri has been named to Powerlist 100 for 2021 by Global Corporate Venturing (GCV), the leading industry publication for corporate venture capital.  Read more.
7/21/2021	Fabric8Labs Raises $19M to Commercialize New Metal Additive Manufacturing Technology Fabric8Labs today announced the close of a $19.3 million Series A financing round led by Intel Capital with syndicate partners including Lam Capital. Read more.
7/20/2021	Pacific Biosciences Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Omniome  Pacific Biosciences announced today that it has signed a definitive merger agreement under which it will acquire Omniome for an overall transaction valued at approximately $800 million. Read more.
3/24/2021	Velo3D, a Leader in the Rapidly Growing, High Value Metal Additive Manufacturing Market, to Become Public Company Merger with JAWS Spitfire Acquisition Corporation values VELO3D at a pro forma enterprise value of $1.6 billion and is expected to provide up to $500 million in cash proceeds. Read more.
2/25/2021	Faran Nouri at Lam Capital speaks at the webinar: "Building the Future: Perspectives on Deep Tech Investing" Join Vinay Iyengar from Two Sigma Ventures, TM Ravi from The Hive, Ashmeet Sidana from Engineering Capital and Faran Nouri from Lam Research Capital for a conversation on deep tech investing in 2021.  Read more.
1/21/2021	GCV Emerging Leaders Awards 2021: Bo Zhu Bo Zhu was selected as a top 50 “Emerging Leaders” in Corporate VC world by Global Corp Venturing. Read more.
9/16/2020	Chipping Away at Additive's Next Goal Still a young technology, additive could learn some valuable lessons from Silicon Valley. Read more.
8/4/2020	Lam Research and Velo3D Strike Strategic Agreement Lam Research and Velo3D strike strategic agreement to use metal additive manufacturing applications for production of semiconductor capital equipment.  Read more.