Emergent Game Tech gobbles up $14M for game development platform

Emergent Game Technologies, builder of applications for video-game development, has snapped up $14.4 million in equity, amending a filing from February reporting that the company raised more than $12.5 million, according to VentureWire.

Based in Calabasa, Calif., the company says it can slash game development costs… Continue Reading

Forterra raises $1.2M for corporate virtual worlds

Forterra Systems, a Menlo Park, Calif. company that creates virtual environments for corporations, government agencies and health care organizations, has brought in $1.2 million of what it hopes will soon be a $2.7 million round of capital, reports VentureWire. This is a much lower amount… 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

Emergent racks up $12.5M for game-development software

Emergent Game Technologies, a Calabasas, Calif.-based provider of applications used to develop video games more cost-efficiently, just raised $12.5 million in fifth-round funding to support the commercialization of a new product, slated to launch during the Game Developers Conference in late March. The company claims… Continue Reading

Altair Semiconductor raises $22 million for cell phone WiMax processors

Altair Semiconductor raises $22 million for cell phone WiMax processors

Altair Semiconductor has raised $22 million in a third round of funding for its cell phone chips. The chips can process so-called 4G wireless technologies, such as WiMax, which brings both voice reception and high-speed Internet data connectivity to cell phones. The chips can also… Continue Reading

Siano raises $17.5M for mobile TV chips

Mobile TV chip maker Siano has raised $17.5 million in a third round of funding. The financing was led by DFJ Tamir Fishman Ventures (the Israeli partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson), with existing investors Jerusalem Venture Partners, Star Ventures, Walden Israel, Bessemer Venture Partners and… Continue Reading

Funtactix launches cross-platform Moondo gaming universe

Funtactix launches cross-platform Moondo gaming universe

Funtactix wants to set itself apart in online games by addressing one of the most annoying problems: the inability for users to take their game characters and achievements from one game to another. With the Moondo cross-gaming universe being unveiled today, you can do just… Continue Reading

IBM and Forterra teaming up on virtual world for spooks

IBM and Forterra teaming up on virtual world for spooks

Even spooks need their virtual worlds. Where else, after all, could they rehearse their training missions against the bad guys of the world?

Forterra Systems and IBM said today that they’re teaming up to create virtual worlds for U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies. The so-called “Babel Bridge” project… Continue Reading

Dune Networks takes $12M for ethernet switching platforms

A Sunnyvale, Calif. company that manufactures networking devices used in data centers and carrier’s ethernet switching platforms, Dune Networks was founded in 2000 and began selling its products four years later.

The company is its own fabless semiconductor supplier, but also has partnerships with companies including… Continue Reading

Kovio raises $19.4M for printed electronics

Kovio, a Sunnyvale, Calif. developer of semiconductor products using thin-film technologies, or “printed electronics,” has raised $19.5 million in the first part of a fourth (series D) round of funding, according to a press release.

Pinnacle Ventures led the deal, which included previous investors Bessemer Venture… Continue Reading

Emergent Game Technologies raises $12M more for game applications

Emergent Game Technologies, a Calabasas, Calif. company that makes applications to help with game development, said it has raised $12 million in a fourth round of funding.

The round was led by Jerusalem Venture Partners and Worldview Technology Partners, with some help from Adena Ventures,… Continue Reading

Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips

Altair raises $18M for mobile WiMAX chips

Altair, an Israeli company, is joining the race to be at the forefront of what some believe will be telecom’s next hot trend—mobile WiMAX. Altair, which makes chips that work with mobile WiMAX networks, announces today an $18M round of funding.

Mobile WiMAX is considered attractive… Continue Reading

Double Fusion raises $26M for in-game advertising

San Francisco’s Double Fusion, which offers a way to for advertisers to place advertisers in games, told VentureBeat this morning that it has raised $26 million in a financing round led by Norwest Venture Partners.

Existing investors Accel Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners joined in… Continue Reading