Aperto bags $240K more for Wimax equipment
WiMax equipment provider Aperto Networks has raised $240,000 more in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. It just raised $537,000 at the end of October. Based in Milpitas, Calif., the company is backed by Alliance Ventures, Canaan Partners, GunnAllen Venture Partners, Quicksilver Ventures, Tyco Ventures, Innovacom and Jafco Ventures. It has now raised more than $160 million to date.
Aperto takes $537K for WiMax networks
WiMax equipment provider Aperto Networks has brought in $537,000 in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Milpitas, Calif., the company is backed by Alliance Ventures, Canaan Partners, GunnAllen Venture Partners, Innovacom, Jafco Ventures, JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures and Tyco Ventures.
Aperto Networks takes $165K for WiMax equipment
WiMax equipment provider Aperto Networks has brought in $165,000 more in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. The Milpitas, Calif.-based company just raised $569,000 in early August, bringing the round’s total to $1.7 million. Previously, it brought in $159 million from backers including Alliance Venture, Canaan Partners, GunnAllen Venture Partners, Innovacom, JAFCO Ventures, JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures and Tyco Ventures.
Aperto nails down $569K for WiMax base stations
WiMax equipment provider Aperto Networks has raised $569,000 in equity, reports VentureWire. Before now, the Milpitas, Calif., company had raised $159 million from Alliance Venture, Canaan Partners, GunnAllen Venture Partners, Innovacom, JAFCO Ventures, JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures and Tyco Ventures. It brought in $170,000 in debt financing in June, and $20 million before that in April 2008.
Aperto makes WiMax base stations and network equipment for residential and commercial deployments.
F-Secure buys Steek to bulk up online storage
F-Secure, maker of anti-virus and anti-spyware software for internet security, has acquired Steek,
a provider of online storage and data management applications for
mobile operators. The deal will expand F-Secure’s portfolio of software
offerings, making it a more versatile choice for its customerbase, made
up mostly of mobile operators — it will also bring new operators into
its fold.
San Jose, Calif.-based F-Secure paid $38.4 million for France-based Steek
– but it may have to kick in $3.5 million more in 2010… Continue Reading
WiMax vendor Aperto adds $170K after raising millions
WiMax equipment provider Aperto Networks has raised $170,000 in debt financing from undisclosed investors. Based in Milpitas, Calif., the company is actually one of the wealthiest in the space, having raised $159 million from Alliance Venture, Canaan Partners, GunnAllen Venture Partners, Innovacom, JAFCO Ventures, JK&B Capital, Quicksilver Ventures and Tyco Ventures, reports VentureWire.
Aperto makes WiMax base stations and network equipment for purposes ranging from residential-size deployments to full scale commercial. It also makes a base… Continue Reading
Yahoo offloads bargain shopping site Kelkoo
Yahoo has announced the sale of Kelkoo, its European comparison-shopping site, to English private equity firm Jamplant. While financial details of the deal were not disclosed, Kelkoo founder and former chief executive Pierre Chappaz wrote on his blog that the subsidiary went for less than $125 million, a major dip from the $576 million Yahoo initially paid for it in 2004.
Some have suggested that this is the first post-Jerry Yang move Yahoo has made to… Continue Reading
Envivio raises $25M for video compression
Envivio, a South San Francisco, Calif. company that handles video compression for broadcasting companies, has taken a significant $25 million financing.
The platforms that Envivio is aimed at include most of the largest markets — mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV. The company works with standard video compression codecs like H.264 and Windows Media Video to make content more easily deliverable.
The funding amount is large, but not surprising. As video grows on the Internet, a number… Continue Reading
Aperto Networks, a WiMax equipment maker, gets $20M
Aperto Networks might come across as a new startup, having been in the wireless headlines lately with WiMax product announcements. However, the company is nine years old and has taken a massive $159 million in venture funding since its inception.
It makes WiMax base stations and network equipment for purposes ranging from residential-size deployments to full scale commercial. It also makes a base station that supports both fixed and mobile WiMax at the same time.
The $20… 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
Aperto, a WiMAX base station maker, raises $19M
Aperto Networks, builder of WiMAX base stations and subscriber units, said it has raised $19 million in a fifth round of capital, bringing the company’s total funding so far to a considerable $139 million.
Here is the announcement:
The latest infusion was led by GunnAllen Venture Partners and included participation existing investors including JK&B Capital, Canaan Partners, Alliance Ventures, Innovacom, JAFCO, Labrador Ventures, and Tyco.
PixSense, offering auto-storage of mobile photos & video, raises $5.4M
PixSense, a service that lets you automatically save and store your mobile phone photos — without the pain of syncing with a PC — has just raised $5.4 million in a first round of funding.
The company offers the free photo storage service from its Website. You sign up, giving PixSense your phone model, and it sends you an SMS, which you open and it triggers a download. That way you don’t have the hassle of… Continue Reading