Get ready for femtocells: Ubiquisys raises $11 M
If you’ve used an iPhone, you’ll know how frustratingly spotty its wireless coverage can be.
Fact is, wireless carriers such as AT&T (which serves the iPhone) are desperately searching for ways to unload the huge amount of traffic that are hitting their networks from iPhone and… Continue Reading
Wireless startup Fon raises $9.5M
Fon, a Spanish startup hoping to build “the world’s largest wireless community”, has raised $9.5 million in a third round of funding, according to TechCrunch.
Coral Capital Management led the round, with participation from British Telecom, Google, Allen & Co., founder Martin Varsavsky’s Jazzya and Joi… Continue Reading
Social router company, FON, raises $13M amid new competition
(Updated, corrected investor information)
FON, the Madrid, Spain company that offers routers to people that FON members can share if they want, has raised a second round of funding.
It has received $13M from existing investors Index Ventures and Google, and from four undisclosed non-US investors… Continue Reading
Makani raises $10M from Google for alternative energy
Makani Power, an Emeryville alternative energy effort from Squid Labs, has raised $10 million in Series A funding from Google, according to a regulatory filing.
Here is the Squid Labs blog, which hasn’t been updated much lately. The company hasn’t had much press lately, either…. Continue Reading