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AttoTude
AttoTude is a Menlo Park, California deep-tech startup building the world's first THz (terahertz) radio over wire - an interconnect platform that moves data between AI servers and GPUs at hundreds of gigabits per second over standard wire, without photonics or exotic packaging. Founded in 2024 by optical-networking veteran Dave Welch and RF/semiconductor pioneer Joy Laskar, the company adapts fiber-grade signaling to terahertz frequencies on low-cost ASICs to break the bandwidth, power, and reliability bottlenecks choking AI data centers. It came out of stealth at OFC 2025 and has raised roughly $91M total, including a $50M Series B led by Mayfield.
Gani Jusuf
Gani Jusuf is the CEO and Co-Founder of AXONNE, a Silicon Valley fabless semiconductor startup reshaping how data moves inside vehicles. A UC Berkeley PhD with 25+ years in semiconductor engineering - including nearly 15 years as VP of Engineering at Marvell Technology - Jusuf co-founded AXONNE in 2018 to solve one of automotive's trickiest problems: getting massive streams of sensor data from cameras, radar, and LiDAR to compute units at multi-gigabit speeds over a single twisted-pair cable. Backed by Intel Capital, AXONNE's Cyton PHY and automotive Ethernet bridge products are used in next-generation ADAS and software-defined vehicle architectures.