Crescendo captures $5M to accelerate delivery of web apps
Crescendo Networks, a company that claims to deliver web applications for enterprises faster and more efficiently, has raised $5 million in a fourth round of venture funding from Trilogy Equity Partners, Evergreen Venture Partners, Apax Partners, StageOne Ventures and Challenge Fund, reports PE Hub. Based in Menlo Park, Calif., it has raised more than $45 million to date and plans to use its recent financing to build out its sales organization.
Dune snags $8.3M more for networking chips
Dune Networks, provider of network chips used to scale data centers and carrier equipment, has added $8.3 million to its second round of funding from Evergreen Venture Partners, Berkeley Ventures, Aurum-SBC Ventures, Jerusalem Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners. Previously, the Sunnyvale, Calif. company had raised $12 million in the round.
Dune says the new financing will go toward product development. It has raised $53 million in capital total — including contributions from past backers Cipio… Continue Reading
Taboola clinches $4.5 million, and CNN to boot
Taboola, a Tel Aviv-based video discovery startup, has just launched its “ViDiscovery” product, which analyzes the context and content of videos, and the viewing and behavior patterns of users in order to recommend videos. It has also secured $4.5 million in a second round of funding. The company aims to make money by running targeted ads with relevant videos.
Viewers watching a Sarah Palin interview on CNN, for example, will see a gray pop-up tab that… Continue Reading
PeerApp takes $8M for peer-to-peer traffic policing
PeerApp, an infrastructure company for Internet service providers that helps them deal with peer-to-peer traffic, has raised an $8 million second round of funding less than a year after taking its first.
The company’s UltraBand caching system stores chunks of P2P files locally, so that repeated downloads of popular files don’t overburden the network. Tangential to the needs of the ISPs, the product can also speed up the downloads for the end user.
Over 100 UltraBand systems… Continue Reading
eASIC announces a 45-nanometer custom design process for smaller fish in chips
The hardest thing about starting a chip company these days is the cost. A big team of engineers has to work for 18 months or more to create a custom chip. Then it takes $1 million for the templates, or masks, that the factory needs to stamp out the chips. It takes 16 weeks for the chips to run through the factory.
The cost can hit $65 million before all is said and done. eASIC, a… Continue Reading
Breach Security raises round for web app firewall appliances
Breach Security has raised $6 million in a second round of funding to expand its business of making web application firewalls that stop hackers.
The Carlsbad, Calif.-based company creates a security appliance, dubbed WebDefend, that can check incoming traffic for malicious software at a high speed without slowing down a web site, said Mike Pierce, chief executive of the company. The company licenses the appliance for a $75,000 one-time fee. WebDefend protects more than 15,000 commercial… Continue Reading
eASIC melds custom chips with fast-turnaround approach
Do chip start-ups really exist anymore?
Not seeing many, we were going to propose changing the name of Silicon Valley to Social Networking Valley. But now eASIC, a maker of rapid-turnaround custom chips, comes along to remind us that it’s still possible for start-ups to raise more money in the semiconductor field.
eASIC says today they have raised $48 million in a new round of venture funding from Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The… Continue Reading
Pythagoras Solar, another solar PV maker, raises $10M
Pythagoras Solar is an Israel-based maker of solar photovoltaics that was started within Precede Technologies, an incubator that also has offices in Silicon Valley.
The company hasn’t released specific details on its technology, but says it is working on changing some of the “basic principles” behind PV technology by combining “software models, optic design, semiconductor processes, materials science, and mass manufacturing techniques to build highly durable, cost effective solar energy products.”
The $10 million funding is the… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Friday, Nov. 16, 2007
Featured companies: ActiViews, ChemShop, Freedom-2
ActiViews raises $5M for medical-imaging systems — Israel’s ActiViews, a developer of technology for enhancing MRI and PET scans, raised $5 million in a first funding round. Investors included Ofer Hi Tech and Evergreen Venture Partners.
ActiView’s system provides real-time analysis of medical images used to guide invasive surgical procedures. Current practice often requires multiple scans, which are expensive and involve radiation exposure that can cause further harm. ActiView’s technology is designed to… Continue Reading
Taboola raises $1.5M for video discovery
Taboola, an Israeli startup that launched yesterday at the NewTeeVee Live conference, wants to make video discovery easier.
The company generates video recommendations based on content the viewer has already watched. Rather than having its own site, it is an embedded script that other sites can use. It plans to generate revenue through ads.
News of the company’s $1.5 million funding by Evergreen Venture Partners was broken by TechCrunch. There’s also some more extensive coverage at NewTeeVee.
Knocka.tv, video site from the makers of ICQ
Knocka.tv is a new video site from the creators of ICQ, the successful early instant messenger service.
The site, yet to launch publicly, boasts a new form of television that is “hyperinteractive” and “democratic” and while there are more than enough video sites out there, the pedigree of its founders and the frenetic promotional video on Knocka’s preview site intrigues.
This ad features tiny clips of user-generated video, spliced together and set to a perpetually shifting soundtrack…. Continue Reading
Pontis, a marketing software developer, raises $15M
Pontis, a Glil Yam, Israel developer of software that helps phone carriers and cable companies market various services to their customers, has raised $15 million in financing.
Sequoia Capital led the funding round, which included existing backers Evergreen Venture Partners and Accel Partners.
From the statement:
Pontis offers an Integrated Marketing Systemâ„¢, a comprehensive system for defining, executing and analyzing targeted marketing offers. With Pontis, mobile, cable, IPTV and fixed-line carriers are increasing revenues and customer loyalty… Continue Reading