Bizanga closes $8M to block spam, email viruses
Bizanga, maker of an email management platform that defends against spam and virsuses, just raised $8 million in first-round funding led by Credit Agricole Private Equity, a French firm, and including seed backer Galileo Partners. The San Mateo, Calif. company says it will use the investment to grow its sales operations in Asia and continue development of new products.
In addition to blocking out system attacks, Bizanga’s software can also be used to establish parental controls,… Continue Reading
Envivio raises $25M for video compression
Envivio, a South San Francisco, Calif. company that handles video compression for broadcasting companies, has taken a significant $25 million financing.
The platforms that Envivio is aimed at include most of the largest markets — mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV. The company works with standard video compression codecs like H.264 and Windows Media Video to make content more easily deliverable.
The funding amount is large, but not surprising. As video grows on the Internet, a number… Continue Reading
BioVex raises $22M for cancer-killing viruses
Woburn, Mass.-based BioVex, a biotech working on new ways to attack cancer and infections, raised $22 million in a fifth funding round. Triathlon Medical Ventures led the round, joined by New Science Ventures, Forbion Capital Ventures, Avalon Ventures, Credit Agricole Private Equity, GeneChem Management, Innoven Partners and Scottish Equity Partners.
BioVex is developing so-called oncolytic viruses, which are designed to infect and destroy tumor cells — long a promising but never-proven anti-cancer technique. The company put… Continue Reading
DiBcom receives $27 million more to get dibs on mobile TV market
The mobile TV market is expected to have more than 130 million customers by 2011, according to Screen Digest.
So DiBcom, a France-based semiconductor-for-mobile-tv company has received another $27 million in funding from its many investors, this time adding French bank NATIXIS. The company says it will use the money to continue improving its TV-streaming technology, and to spread faster internationally to phones, laptops, cars and other devices around the world.
We’re speculating that the company timed… Continue Reading