Xelerated raises $13 million for fast networking chips

Xelerated raises $13 million for fast networking chips

Xelerated, a maker of networking chip sets for carriers, has raised a $13 million round from its existing investors.

Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund led the round. Others included Accel Partners, Alta Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners and Atlas Ventures.

The company said in a news release that… Continue Reading

Plastic Logic sees flexible, low-power displays coming with $50M funding

Plastic Logic sees flexible, low-power displays coming with $50M funding

Thin, flexible display tech is one of those advances that has been just over the horizon since the Internet bubble started inflating. Remember the promises of e-paper — a crossbreed with the best qualities of both paper and computer screens, used as portable reading material?… Continue Reading

GreenRoad Technologies raises $3M for fuel economy and driver safety technology

GreenRoad Technologies, a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based firm with offices in Israel and London, has added another $3 million in funding to its $14.5 million third round, courtesy of Amadeus Capital Partners. The European VC joins previous investors Virgin Green Fund, Benchmark Capital and Balderton Capital.

The… Continue Reading

ForeScout Technologies raises $8M for network policy management

ForeScout Technologies, a firm that makes a security platform combining clientless network access control (NAC) and intrusion prevention, has raised $8 million from previous investors.

ForeScout’s CounterACT appliance works without software installation by individual devices on a network, thus attempting to remain invisible to users.

NAC… Continue Reading

Solarflare raises $26 million for networking chips

Solarflare raises $26 million for networking chips

You can blame the popularity of YouTube for the success of Solarflare Communications. Because demand for internet video keeps on growing, the need for infrastructure to handle the growth is also on the rise.

Solarflare Communications has raised $26 million in venture capital for its high-speed… Continue Reading

ForeScout Technologies, for network access control, raises additional $4.38M

ForeScout Technologies, based in Cupertino, Calif., offers network access control products for IT administrators that allow granularized control of visitors accessing a network.

Like another startup we’ve reported on, ConSentry Networks, ForeScout is working on taking market share away from large incumbent providers like Cisco with… Continue Reading

Xelerated raises $23M for network processor

Xelerated, a Santa Clara, Calif. company that makes a high-speed processor for corporate and metro networks, said it has raised a $23 million round of financing.

The round was led by the Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund (the Sixth AP Fund), and included existing investors Atlas… Continue Reading

Update: ForeScout (does not) get $11.25M more for network access security technology

(Update: The company says its most recent funding, totaling $10 million, its fourth round, took place in 2005, and said no recent investment has been made. We don’t know why PEWeek reported this. Correction is made below. Original story written April 5, 2007. Also, the… Continue Reading

Ultrawideband player Artimi raises $26.5 million

Artimi has just secured raised $26.5 million in funding– a significant amount of cash for a company active in the ultrawideband/wireless USB area.

It is early days for this technology and so there is a race on to be first to market.

UltrawideBand can transmit up… Continue Reading