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SeeSaw Networks, a San Francisco start-up developing a way to place advertisements on outside monitors — whether it be screens in bars or restaurants, or monitors in elevators or train stations, has raised $10 million in venture capital.
Funding comes from Silicon Valley venture firm Sutter Hill Ventures. Partners Tench Coxe and Jim Gaither will hold [...]

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Attune Systems, a Santa Clara start-up offering a way to manage network server files with virtualization technology, said it has received $14 million in a new venture funding round led by RWI Ventures.
The value of the company increased with the latest round, it said.
Also participating in the round were GF Private Equity Group as [...]

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Cisco Systems, the Internet networking giant, said it has agreed to buy Greenfield Networks, a privately-held company which makes equipment that supports Metro Ethernet services.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Greenfield Networks was founded in 2000 and has 60 employees based in Sunnyvale, California and Bangalore.
Greenfield was backed by Sequoia Capital, Global Catalyst Partners, [...]

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Etology, a Foster City, Calif.-based operator of an online advertising marketplace, has raised $4 million in Series A funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. Backers include Mustang Ventures, DG Incubation and CGM Marketing.
Etology lets Web site owners sell their ad space directly to advertisers, serving text ads and banner ads [...]

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Mayfield and Norwest are the backers of Timebridge.
See our story on Timebridge here.

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See our stories here (scroll down) and here (on Topio). Total amounts of Intel investments are undisclosed.
(Update: To clarify, Intel has made equity investments in Six Apart and SpikeSource, but has only signed warranty deals with the other companies, essentially giving Intel the right to purchase equity once the companies meet certain peformance criteria).

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Dilithium Networks, a Petaluma, Calif. provider of converged video solutions for the broadband and wireless markets, has secured $16.77 million of a $25 million Series D round, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. Backers include U.S. Venture Partners, Motorola Ventures, Deutsche Bank Capital and CM Capital.

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Vendavo, a Palo Alto start-up offering price management software for large companies, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from software giant SAP’s venture arm, SAP Ventures.
The company has previously raised more than $56M from investors including DCM, InterWest Partners, Mesirow Financial, Sigma Partners and Split Rock Partners.
Here is the company’s announcement.
A snippet:
Vendavo’s price [...]

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Verient, a tech startup in Cupertino, has secured $2.13 million of an $8.45 million Series A round led by Global Catalyst Partners, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week.

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Gecko Audio, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of network audio products, but is secretive on the details, has raised $3 million in a first round of funding led by Technology Venture Partners (Australia), according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week.

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See our story here. Duffieldand and Greylock Partners invested $15 million into the company in 2005. They plan to kick in an additional $20 million next year, the Merc reports.

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