Anagran gets $8.6 million for network traffic management
Anagran, a Sunnyvale, Calif. company that builds “flow management” products to help handle traffic on Internet service provider (ISP) and corporate networks, has taken $8.6 million in a fourth funding round.
Fairly often, flow management simply means handling peer to peer (P2P) traffic between users. The company’s first product, the FR-1000 Flow Router, is well known for being one of the tools companies like Comcast use to slow down P2P — a contentious issue, but profitable… Continue Reading
Innotas, a project portfolio market company, gets $6M boost
Innotas, a company offering something called project portfolio management (PPM), has raised $6 million more in funding.
PPM is software designed to help groups tackle projects, with an eye toward managing resources and meeting goals. Where Salesforce has become a titan from selling customer relationship management (CRM) software to sales divisions at big firms, Innotas and others hope to fatten from peddling PPM to the rest of the company. Both CRM and PPM are broadly categorized… Continue Reading
Vyatta, the open-source networking co., raises $11M more
Vyatta, a San Mateo, Ca. company that sells open-source networking products including routers, firewalls and virtual private networks, has raised $11 million more in a second round of financing.
The round was led by Comcast Interactive Capital, the company said in a statement.
Also participating in the round are existing investors JPMorgan Partners (Panorama), ComVentures, and ArrowPath Venture Partners. The company’s total funding is now $18.5 million.
Avidience, a video-for-business-application company, raises $5M
Avidence, a Sunnyvale, Calif. maker of open source software for inserting video in business applications, said it has raised $5 million in first round financing from Red Rock Ventures and ArrowPath Venture Partners.
From the company’s statement:
The Avidence Video Application Server uses open source components and algorithms created by leading video software partners, software developers, and universities from around the world. The open source model allows the Avidence system to continue to expand in scope… Continue Reading
Nuance shores up voice-recognition lead, buys BeVocal for $140M
Nuance Communications, the speech-recognition technology company, said it has agreed to acquire BeVocal, of Mountain View, Calif., for $140 million.
The deal allows the Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance, which dominates the speech-recognition market, to extend its reach into mobile calls, where BeVocal’s customers include carriers like Cingular, Liberty Wireless, Metro PCS and Virgin Mobile. It comes at a time when Tellme is making headway in mobile voice search (though Tellme relies on Nuance’s underlying speech-recognition technology).
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TriCipher, an online user authentication company, raises $15M
TriCipher, a Los Gatos, Calif., provider of user authentication security technology to protect against online fraud and identity theft, said it has raised $15 million in a third round of cash and debt financing.
Led by RBC Technology Ventures, the round included existing investors Arrowpath Venture Partners, Intel Capital, Trident Capital, Wasatch Venture Fund, and Zions SBIC, a subsidiary of Zions Bank. Comerica provided some debt in the round.
Innotas, project management software Co., raises $5M
Innotas, a six year old company selling project management software, has raised $5.5 million in a second round of funding, according to VentureWire (sub required):
Founded as Project Arena in 2000, the Oakland, Calif.-based company raised its first financing from seed investor Cedar Circle LLP. In this latest round new investors ArrowPath Venture Partners and ComVentures joined Cedar Circle in putting up the Series B capital. Since the lean years, Innotas has managed to build a… Continue Reading
Vyatta, open-source networking Co., raises $7.5M
Vyatta, a San Mateo start-up that sells an open-source router, said it has raised $7.5 million in a first round of financing.
The funding comes from JPMorgan Partners, ComVentures and ArrowPath Venture Partners.
Vyatta says its Open Flexible Router (OFR) is a more flexible and affordable alternative to the incumbent, “closed-source” products that dominate the market today. Vyatta’s stated goal is to bring “commercial-quality open-source networking products to market.”