ISkoot, the company that lets you make Skype Internet calls from your mobile phone, has raised $19 million in a third round of venture capital to build an ambitious mobile platform for AT&T.
The platform, to launch in testing Nov. …
One of the benefits of funding startups in a developing country is being able to invest in businesses that are already well established in your home territory. That’s what Sierra Ventures has done with $7 million in CarWale.com, an Indian …
SmartSynch, one of a half-dozen smart grid startups that have raised tens of millions of dollars in funding, has acquired a communications company in Atlanta, Georgia called Applied Mesh Technologies.
Applied Mesh’s specialties include commercial and industrial solutions for managing …
EnerG2, a Seattle, Wash. company making advanced materials for fuel and energy storage, has raised an $8.5 million round of funding, according to Xconomy.
Various nanomaterials that the company is working on could prove useful for holding methane, hydrogen and …
There’s a shortage of the pure silicon used to make solar cells, but Sunnyvale, Calif-based CaliSolar doesn’t care. There’s plenty of the less refined stuff — what’s called metallurgical grade silicon — that the company says it can use in …
Tesla Motors has looked a bit shaky lately, starting with a staff layoff and an ouster of its CEO a little over two weeks ago and following with reports that the company had only $9 million left in the bank. …
A step beyond RFID trackers, the “global asset visibility services” that Impeva Labs offers are used for close tracking of valuable assets as they’re shipped or deployed around the globe. The company just raised a $10 million second round to …
For the occasional communications that still get sent via snail mail, startup Earth Class Mail is trying to corner the market for scanning the communications, sending them to users’ email inboxes and recycling the physical copies. The company just raised …
Kashless, a company founded by Martin Tobias, the former CEO of large biodiesel company Imperium Renewables, isn’t ready to come out of stealth mode yet. But a few details have emerged on the company, including a $5 million investment found …
Rather than building an improved diesel engine from scratch like EcoMotors or Achates Power, a Canadian company called NxtGen Emission Controls just wants to clean up the old ones.
The company makes an add-on for existing engines that converts diesel …
News moves quickly these days. Within hours of a rumor circulating that Tesla Motors is running low on cash, company CEO Elon Musk announced via Reuters that the company will close over $20 million in new funding by next week.…
The CalCEF Clean Energy Fund, a small San Francisco boutique investor that is working to raise $20 million for itself, has invested in three seed-stage companies: Allopartis Biotechnologies, HID Laboratories and one unnamed outfit.
Allopartis makes enzymes used to help …
First Solar, the undisputed top dog in the thin-film solar industry, has made a move that could prove revolutionary for the solar market. It has invested in SolarCity, a residential and commercial solar installer in San Francisco.
SolarCity will receive …
A Bend, Ore. company called InenTec has just received a $150 million equity commitment toward a gasification plant from Lakeside Energy, which will help prove the concept.
In an InenTec facility, waste is subjected to intense temperatures until it vaporizes …
Two California companies that update existing homes for greater energy efficiency, Sustainable Spaces and Renu, have joined in a merger.
Sustainable Spaces raised $6 million a month ago, and will likely take the lion’s share of the partnership; the combined …
Intel Capital has sunk money into three Chinese companies: Trony Solar Holdings, NP Holdings and Viewhigh.
Trony Solar Holdings, a manufacturer of thin-film solar cells, received $20 million. An undisclosed amount also went to NP Holdings, which works in the …
The Internet was invented for researchers. But today, Internet data transfer speeds are too low for many types of scientific collaboration. So researchers have built their own, smaller networks, operating outside of the Internet, one of which a company called …
According to most experts’ expectations for electric cars, the vehicles will be fueled mainly by batteries. But there’s a dark horse competitor for energy storage: ultracapacitors, devices that store energy in an electric field. Three companies, Apowercap Technologies, Eestor and …
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Moore’s Law gets a life extension — Researchers at McGill University claim to have discovered a new state of matter, a “quasi-three-dimensional system,” that may extend the famous trend of tech companies being able to pack …
Metaplace, a company that will allow anybody to build their own virtual world and access it through through an ordinary web browser, has taken $6.7 million in funding as it nears a public release.
There hasn’t been much hype around …
