(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)

We intend to focus on companies in the aerospace and defense services, cybersecurity and secured communications, quantum-based command and control systems, as well as in the artificial intelligence and machine-learning industries.

Dr. Avi S. Katz serves as our CEO and chairman of the board. Dr. Katz has spent approximately 35 years in international executive positions within the TMT (telecom, media and tech) industry founding and managing startups, and at privately held start-ups, and publicly traded middle-cap  companies and large enterprises. After the sale of GigPeak (also known as GigOptix), which he founded and bootstrapped in April 2007, to IDT in April 2017, in October 2017, Dr. Katz founded GigCapital Global as a serial issuer of private-to-public equity (PPE) entities. A PPE entity is also known as a special-purpose-acquisition-company  or a SPAC. (Please see prospectus for his bio.) He is married to Dr. Raluca Dinu, who is a director (board member) of GigCapital8 Acquisition Co.

Dr. Raluca Dinu, a director of GigCapital8 Acquisition Co., is the CEO, president and secretary of QT Imaging Holdings, Inc., which she and Dr. Katz founded as GIG5 in February 2021. Dr. Dinu has spent approximately 21 years in international executive positions within the TMT industry working for privately held start-ups, middle-cap  companies and large enterprises. (Please see prospectus for her bio.)

(Note: GigCapital8 Acquisition Co. disclosed the terms for its SPAC IPO in an S-1 filing during the week of Aug. 11, 2025: 22 million units at $10.00 each to raise $220.0 million. Each unit consists of one Class A ordinary share and one right to receive one-tenth (1/10th) of  one Class A ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination.)