Roundup: Feds offering short-term loans, presidential debates live online, Silver Spring gets a big raise, and more
Feds now providing short-term debt — The Federal Reserve will provide money for companies to finance their day-to-day activities, in the government’s latest effort to staunch bleeding in the credit markets.
Live presidential debates hit the web — Hulu will stream tonight’s presidential debate live, something of a… Continue Reading
Dexterra raises $21.5M to expand mobile platform, carrier partnerships
Mobile business software provider Dexterra announced today that it scored $21.5 million in sixth round financing from existing investors led by New Enterprise Associates and including Canaan Partners, Intel Capital, Mesirow Financial, Motorola Ventures and Sigma Partners. This brings the company’s total funding to $106.5… Continue Reading
HealthiNation brings in $7.5M to produce online health videos
HealthiNation, a New York-based company that produces videos for television and the web addressing all aspects of personal health, has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding, VentureWire reports. Contributions came from MK Capital and new investor Intel Capital, which led the round.
Founded… Continue Reading
InMage gets $15M for enterprise data backup
InMage Systems, a data backup and recovery company that serves small and large enterprises, has raised $15 million in a round led by Intel Capital.
DR-Scout is the company’s main product. It allows continuing access to data during “critical” events and provides both regular backup and… Continue Reading
3Leaf Systems raises $35 million round for enterprise virtualization technology
Virtualization technology is still buzzing with activity, as its adoption by large companies remains one of the biggest trends in the economy right now.
Virtualization grabbed headlines 13 months ago, when VMware raised nearly $1 billion in an initial public offering. Now virtualization chip maker 3Leaf… Continue Reading
MyPunchbowl serves up a $2.1 million second round
Punchbowl Software, the parent company of online event planning site MyPunchbowl has raised its second round of funding. The money comes as the site is growing quickly. The site claims its traffic has grown at least 20 percent each month over the past year and… Continue Reading
Mobile company UIEvolution raises Intel funding as it spins off from Square Enix
UIEvolution, a mobile technology startup that was acquired by video game maker Square Enix in 2004, is making a second go-round as an independent company, and it just raised funding from Intel Capital. The company isn’t disclosing the amount, but the Puget Sound Business Journal… 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… Continue Reading
Fonality raises $12M for small business phone systems
Fonality, a company that provides Internet phone systems to small- and medium-sized businesses, has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding.
Dan Rosenthal, the vice president of finance, says Fonality’s goal is to create an open source software application that provides everything that a… Continue Reading
Aicent gets Intel Capital funding for wireless roaming technology
As part of an effort to invest in future phone networks, Intel is announcing that it has invested $3 million in Aicent.
San Jose, Calif.-based Aicent has built one of the world’s largest multimedia messaging exchanges for cell-phone carriers so that consumers can get their messages… Continue Reading
From the ashes of the graphics wars, another start-up
It seems obvious that the graphics chip wars are done, as far as start-ups are concerned. Intel is squaring off against Advanced Micro Devices (which bought ATI Technologies) and Nvidia. There is no obvious nook in this multibillion-dollar market where a start-up could thrive.
But somebody… Continue Reading
IDF: Intel gets behind start-up MetaRAM’s server memory solution
Silicon Valley start-up MetaRAM is announcing its second-generation chip set today with backing from Intel. MetaRAM’s technology can quadruple the memory capacity in a server, cutting the server costs as much as 90 percent. The Intel endorsement is a big win for a little San… Continue Reading
Plastic Logic sees flexible, low-power displays coming with $50M funding
Thin, flexible display tech is one of those advances that has been just over the horizon since the Internet bubble started inflating. Remember the promises of e-paper — a crossbreed with the best qualities of both paper and computer screens, used as portable reading material?… Continue Reading
Voltaix raises $12.5 million from Intel Capital for hybrid solar/chip fabrication material
Voltaix is in an interesting position as a maker of chemicals and gases that can be used in the production of both solar cells and semiconductor chips. That may explain why it has received $12.5 million from Intel Capital.
The Branchburg, N.J.-based company said today that… Continue Reading
Three Indian companies: Yatra.com, BuzzInTown.com and Emnet Samsara Media get funding
Intel Capital is going all over the map both literally and in terms of the types of sites it’s investing in. Three recent ones are all based in India. They include: Yatra.com, an online travel portal, BuzzInTown.com, a social networking Web site, and Emnet Samsara… Continue Reading
Microsoft acquires DATAllegro data warehouse appliance company
Microsoft has acquired data warehouse appliance maker DATAllegro in an attempt to strengthen its presence in the enterprise business intelligence market.
DATAllegro specializes in large-volume, high-performance data warehouse appliances with anywhere from 1 terabyte of data to hundreds of terabytes. Microsoft said the addition of DATAllegro… Continue Reading
Roundup: Executives leave, hackers move in, robots invade
Microsoft’s Kevin Johnson moves to Juniper Networks — Microsoft’s lead on the failed Yahoo acquisition has called it quits, heading for the top post at software and device firm Juniper Networks. Johnson was the president of Platforms and Services, which meant he oversaw most of Microsoft’s… Continue Reading
Fast gene sequencing in two years? Investors bet $100M on Pacific BioSciences making it happen
Representing a potential medical quantum leap similar to, but even more important than the commercialization of X-ray imaging, Pacific BioSciences has taken a whopping $100 million to make it possible to affordably map out an individual’s entire genome in a matter of minutes, and for… Continue Reading
Sulfurcell takes $134M for thin-film solar cells
A German solar startup called Sulfurcell has taken a €85 million investment led by €24 million from Intel Capital, for the development of a thin-film material for solar cells.
Sulfurcell works with CIS / CIGS, respectively copper-indium-sulfide and copper-indium-gallium-selenide. The latter material is used by many… Continue Reading
InSync Software raises $3M for RFID software
InSync Software, a startup that makes an application platform for use with RFID, GPD and sensor technologies, has raised $3 million in additional financing for its technology from previous investors Intel Capital, Rustic Canyon Partners and Girish Gaitonde Living Trust.
The San Jose, Calif. company is… Continue Reading