Silicon Clocks takes $7.1M for processor timing devices
Silicon Clocks, a Fremont, Calif. maker of smaller, cheaper chips with timing capabilities, has brought in $7.1 million of a targeted $10.7 million round of equity. The company says it will use the financing for working capital, reports VentureWire.
It last raised funds in 2007, adding… Continue Reading
Search analytics startup Enquisite raises $8M
Enquisite, which is rolling out several search analytics tools, has raised $8 million in new funding, according to VentureWire. One of its first products will verify that ads are running where they’re supposed to.
The round, the San Francisco company’s second, was led by Castile Ventures… Continue Reading
Samplify Systems — a rare semiconductor startup
Venture capitalists and entrepreneurs alike have been bemoaning the fact that nobody starts semiconductor companies anymore. It seems that it’s just too costly and too risky for entrepreneurs to challenge old world chip companies who have locked up the market.
But the folks who started Samplify… Continue Reading
Soasta raises $6.4M for cloud-based testing
Mountain View, Calif.-based Soasta, a company that tests applications on cloud networks to iron out problems before users migrate to the cloud, has raised a second funding round of $6.4 million.
Soasta sells its services to other companies, who want to move their data or users… Continue Reading
Smalltown expands its scope to the Internet community at large with Webcards.com
Online local community site, Smalltown, is starting to think bigger picture. Today, the service launches a new site, Webcards.com, to simplify advertising campaigns over multiple platforms. The idea is still to focus on small local business, but to help these companies easily expand to the… Continue Reading
Capella wires in $15M more for optical switches
Capella Intelligent Subsystems makes optical switches for traffic management in optical networks. Their switches have the ability to be wavelength-selective, allowing higher level monitoring and routing capabilities.
The company has been around for some time, having been started in 2000 and funded with $44 million. We… Continue Reading
Silicon Clocks raises $8M more for chip timing
Silicon Clocks is a fabless semiconductor company focused on integrating timing devices directly onto processor chips.
Current quartz-based technology, which is several decades old, requires a separate processor piece and is somewhat limited in its abilities. Silicon Clocks claims it can reduce the size and cost… Continue Reading
Smalltown, a small local site, acquires tinier Local2Me
Despite the meltdown and slow death of a local community news site BackFence, the local market continues to draw interest.
Last week, the hyperlocal news and blog site, Outside.in, raised a $1.5 million second round of funding and a month ago, American Towns raised $3.3 million…. Continue Reading
Staccato raises $17.5M for wireless device technology
Staccato Communications, a San Diego, Calif. maker of semiconductors and equipment that wirelessly connect devices to personal computers, has raised $17.5 million in financing, bringing its total to $53 million.
Investors include Allegis Capital, Bay Partners, Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures, Interwest Partners and Vision Capital.
Mashery, a mashup company, raises less than $5M
San Francisco start-up Mashery has raised another round of capital to help Web companies open their platforms so that developers can build applications on top of them.
By releasing an API, or Application Programming Interface, a company can allow “mashups” of its data, and gain… Continue Reading
Samplify, an IP compression technology, raises $6.5M
Samplify Systems, a Menlo Park, Ca. company that provides compression technology that helps makes the transfer of large files such as medical imaging faster and more efficient, has raised $6.5 in a first round of funding.
Investors included Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures.
From the… Continue Reading
Capella, optical switch company, restarts with $20M
Capella, a provider of optical switches for broadband networks, said it has raised $20 million of equity and debt financing in what amounts to a financial restarting of the company.
Capella sells wavelength selective switches (WSS) for use in reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADM) applications.
The funding… Continue Reading
Marketocracy lets you place money with the best
Mutual funds are surprisingly dysfunctional, and yet you rely on them for your retirement.
Marketocracy, a six-year-old start-up in San Mateo, may have just brought some sanity to the process.
First, some context: U.S. investors have $4 trillion wrapped up in equity mutual funds, but our… Continue Reading
Smalltown, the hyperlocal Web site, worth a look
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New start-up Smalltown is going after the local business listings market with an ambitious, focused social network model. It has a charming “smalltown” feel, and seeks to build a community of users around those listings. This company will be one to watch.
It launches today (Tuesday)…. Continue Reading