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… Continue Reading
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… Continue Reading
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… 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… Continue Reading