Intransa raises $1.5M for Ethernet storage
Instransa, provider of storage equipment for Ethernet networks, has brought in $1.5 million of a targeted $3 million offering of promissory notes, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Cupertino, Calif., the company is backed by Entrepia Ventures, Guggenheim Partners, Menlo Ventures, Rho Capital Partners and U.S. Venture Partners.
Intransa gets $15M for video surveillance storage
Intransa, a company that provides network IP storage services for video content, brought in $15 million since the start of 2008 for continued growth and development, upping total venture capital raised to $110 million since 2001.
The San Jose, Calif. company is applying its technology to the video surveillance market, which is always in demand of devices offering longer storage with higher resolution. Transportation surveillance alone will represent $2 billion in revenue, and retail surveillance will… Continue Reading
Achronix nabs $43M for gate array technology
Achronix Semiconductor Corp. recently closed $43 million of a large, still open $52 million second round of financing. Argonaut Private Equity led the tranche, which also included existing investors Battery Ventures, New Science Ventures, Easton Capital Investment Group and Entrepia Ventures. These contributors helped the San Jose, Calif. company hit $25.4 in its first round last January. The company plans to use its new funds to develop a new generation of products.
The round is being… Continue Reading
Vantrix, helps publishers deliver video to fragramented mobile market, raises $12M more
Vantrix, a Montreal, Canada company that helps publishers deliver video and other data across multiple handsets via various carriers, said it has raised $12 million in a second round of financing.
An increasing number of companies are focused on the thorny problem of video and audio transmission across today’s fragmented mobile landscape — characterized by hundreds of different phones and protocols.
Competitors include Quickplay and Dynetic.
Vantrix says it has customers like AT&T, Orange, and ABC News. It… Continue Reading
Synopsys, a chip design company, buys ArchPro
Synopsys, a Mountain View, Calif. maker of semiconductor design software, said it has acquired ArchPro Design Automation, a Milpitas, Calif. maker of chip power management technology.
ArchPro managers power in multi-voltage designs from chip architecture to RTL and gate-level design.
Here’s the announcement.
ArchPro had raised $5.5 million from Entrepia Ventures, Intel Capital and Sage Technology Ventures. Separately, an investor at Intel told VentureWire (sub required) that the outcome was “very powerful.”
Network storage co., Intransa, raises $2.7M after nasty fight results in departure of CEO
Intransa, a San Jose company that offers a network storage product, has raised a $2.7 million more as part of a total $12 million round of capital to help relaunch the company after a nasty fight in late 2005 resulted in the departure of its chief executive.
The latest stash of capital came from new investor Entrepia Ventures. The rest of the $12 million was received last year, in a tranche led by Guggenheim Venture Partners,… Continue Reading
Achronix raises large $25.4 million first round for multi-GHz chip technology
Achronix Semiconductor, a San Jose company developing “multi-GHz Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)” technology, has raised a $25.4 million first round of venture backing.
New Science Ventures (of New York) and Battery Ventures led the round, which also included Entrepia Ventures and Easton Capital Investment Group.
The company says the there is a $20 billion-plus market in the “high-performance segment of global ASIC/ASSP/FPGA.”
Here’s the full statement.