Altos Design Automation, a San Jose company offering SSTA (statistical static timing analysis) tools, said it has raised $1.5 million in a Series A round of venture capital funding.
Vista Ventures led the round. Vista’s Jim Hogan joins the Altos …
LoadStar, a Mountain View company that makes load sensors that track changes in force and weight for industrial products, has raised $5 million in a second round of funding, according to Chief Executive Div Harish, cited in a VentureWire (sub …
Palo Alto firm Technology Crossover Ventures has investd $60 million into South Carolina’s Automated Trading Desk, a company with expertise in computerized buying and selling of securities.
The investment reportedly gives TCV a minority stake.
In November, the company said, …
Kolorific, a Milpitas, Calif. fabless semiconductor supplier of video processors and software solutions for the flat-panel HDTV market, has raised around $7 million of an expected $25.24 million third round of funding, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE …
Doostang, a Palo Alto start-up invitation that lets people share job information with their friends, said it has raised about $250,000 in seed financing, VentureWire reports (sub required).
It was “friends and family” round, and names of investors were undisclosed. …
Roundup of the latest Silicon Valley action:
Browster, dies — The web 2.0 carnage is beginning to pile up. This week’s casualty is San Francisco’s Browster, the company that wanted to save you time by popping up a little image …
4HomeMedia, a Sunnyvale start-up, is the latest company wanting to let people control every electronic gadget and system in their home remotely.
It is an elusive business, because some companies have tried it, and most have failed.
4HomeMedia apparently thinks …
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iLike.com, the iPod-compatible social networking and music discovery company we raved about previously has raised $13.3 million in financing from Ticketmaster.
Ticketmaster will own a 25 percent stake in the company.
This makes a lot of sense for both sides. …
SpectraLinear, the Santa Clara start-up that builds the internal timing devices for computers, has raised $6.4 million in additional second round funding funding, according to a regulatory filing. Last month, the company reported raising $14 million. The new shareholder listed …
PixSense, a service that lets you automatically save and store your mobile phone photos — without the pain of syncing with a PC — has just raised $5.4 million in a first round of funding.
The company offers the free …
Solid Information Technology, a Cupertino database company that has raised at least $70 million since its founding in 1997, said it has raised €4 million more in additional financing to help it deliver its open source database products to large …
MakeMyTrip.com, the Indian travel site, has raised $13 million in a second round of funding amid robust growth, according to The Economic Times.
Helion Ventures and Sierra Ventures, and existing backer Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) invested $6 million, $4 …
Ever gone online to make a big-dollar purchase — a phone, a computer for example — and gotten almost to the end, but then aborted because you still had questions?
We’ve been there. Often, we end up calling a live …
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Oorja Protonics, a secretive Menlo Park developer of alcohol-based fuel cells, has raised around $5.52 million in Series A funding, led by Sequoia Capital, according to a regulatory filing (scroll down). The company is run by Sanjiv Malhotra. It …
Chelsey Henry, a Seattle maker of stylish women’s bags, has raised $1.2M in a second round of venture capital that could eventually total $1.6M.
A group of individual investors from the Keiretsu Forum in Northern California led the round, according …
