Knowledge Networks buys Dimestore Media
Knowledge Networks, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based consulting firm that aids product development, announced that it acquired Dimestore Media, maker of an online survey platform that can question people about ad campaigns across the web. Dimestore supplies surveys before and after people are exposed to display… Continue Reading
Video ad network Tremor snaps up funds from SAP
Tremor Media, the large online video advertising network, announced that it brought in an undisclosed amount from SAP Ventures, SAP’s investment arm, among others, in a strategic round of funding. According to the regulatory filing with the SEC, Tremor recently increased the round by $2… Continue Reading
Fortinet buys assets from Ethernet co. Woven
Network security company Fortinet has acquired fabric Ethernet provider Woven Systems to boost the efficiency and speed of its offerings, reports PE Hub. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Woven’s claim to fame is that it makes some of the smallest and densest 10-gigabit network switches in the… Continue Reading
Digital storage provider Omneon calls off IPO
Omneon, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based provider of digital content storage and data processing services for media companies, announced that it has canceled its $115 million filing to go public due to poor market conditions. Its application had been in the hopper since December 2006.
The company has… Continue Reading
Video ad network Tremor Media raises $18M
Large video advertising network Tremor Media announced that it raised $18 million in a third round of funding so that it can invest in other video technologies, like video ad monetization platform Acudeo. Earlier this month, the New York-based company sealed a deal with web… Continue Reading
Force10 and Turin merge, pool their capital and clients
Network builder Force10 Networks has merged with Ethernet services provider Turin Networks to create a powerhouse in both spaces, with an impressive list of clients, numbering 1,300 (including eHarmony and Facebook), reports peHUB. More significant than that is the marrying of two significant pots of… Continue Reading
OpenLane speeds ahead with $10M
OpenLane, an online auto auction service, has brought in $10 million in eighth-round funding from Meritech Capital Partners, August Capital, RPM Ventures and Zilkha Venture Partners — bringing its total capital raised to $75 million, reports VentureWire.
The new money should come in handy considering the… Continue Reading
Sylantro and BroadSoft merge to form VoIP powerhouse
The voice-over-internet-protocol space just got less crowded. Big name BroadSoft has just acquired long-time competitor Sylantro Systems for an undisclosed sum. The merger may portend many to come for VoIP companies in 2009 as the recession encourages further consolidation, industry insiders predict.
BroadSoft and Sylantro are… Continue Reading
Med device maker Acclarent’s IPO flatlines — but could be revived
Acclarent, maker of medical devices to treat ear, nose and throat conditions, has become the latest biotech firm to withdraw its IPO due to poor market conditions. It originally filed in June, hoping to bring in $86.3 million to expand marketing and sales activities.
The Menlo… Continue Reading
Force10 rolls out virtualization products
Force10 Networks, a developer of 10-gigabit networking hardware, will be launching a new line of products over the next half year to help companies set up automated and virtual networks. Currently, it provides routers and switches to web companies like Facebook and eHarmony, to help… Continue Reading
ForeScout Technologies raises $8M for network policy management
ForeScout Technologies, a firm that makes a security platform combining clientless network access control (NAC) and intrusion prevention, has raised $8 million from previous investors.
ForeScout’s CounterACT appliance works without software installation by individual devices on a network, thus attempting to remain invisible to users.
NAC… Continue Reading
Dotcom crash survivor Openlane, a wholesale auto auction site, returns for $25M funding
Openlane, an Internet company that helps auction off automobiles, is just the latest old “B2B” company starting to thrive after struggling in the wake of the first Internet boom.
The company saw 60 percent growth in revenues last year, for a total of more than $60… Continue Reading
Security company Imperva raises $20M
Imperva, a company that provides application data security, has raised $20 million in a fourth round of financing. The company’s total funding is now $54 million.
We covered the Foster City, Calif.-company back in 2006, when chief executive Shlomo Kramer (who co-founded the successful security firewall… Continue Reading
Roundup: iPhone SDK rumors, Bischof at Meritech, and did Wordpress slap Fox?
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1. Apple may exercise tight control over iPhone developer kit
2. George Bischof joins Meritech Capital Partners
3. “The many challenges of widgets”
4. Google’s Andy Rubin shows off Android
5. LiveJournal lands top advisers
6. Arrington holds forth
7. Did Wordpress’ Mullenweg slap Fox News? Don’t think so
Apple may exercise… Continue Reading
ForeScout Technologies, for network access control, raises additional $4.38M
ForeScout Technologies, based in Cupertino, Calif., offers network access control products for IT administrators that allow granularized control of visitors accessing a network.
Like another startup we’ve reported on, ConSentry Networks, ForeScout is working on taking market share away from large incumbent providers like Cisco with… Continue Reading
Omniture buys Web site testing company, Offermatica, for $65M
Omniture, which helps companies analyze their customers’ online behavior to boost revenue, has acquired San Francisco’s Offermatica for $65 million. Offermatica helps companies test different aspects of their Web sites, to see how customers respond to changes in content or other features.
Under the deal, Omniture… Continue Reading
Life sciences briefing: Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007
Featured companies: Atritech, Avalon Partners, Ensemble Discovery, Hyperion Therapeutics, LifeBond, ReShape Medical, SafeStitch, Trophos, UltraShape
Hyperion Therapeutics raises $40M against GI and kidney disease — Hyperion Therapeutics, a South San Francisco, Calif., specialty pharmaceutical company, raised $40 million in a second funding round. Investors included Sofinnova Ventures,… Continue Reading
Prosper raises $20M to assert lead in person-to-person loans
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San Francisco’s Prospser, which appears to have gained a leadership position in person-to-person lending, has raised $20 million in its third round of financing.
Prosper is one of three upstarts in the person-to-person lending market, where borrowers request loans and have ordinary people bid to finance… Continue Reading
Amberpoint raises $9M for SOA runtime governance software
AmberPoint, an Oakland, Calif. provider of a network management software, has raised $9 million in fifth round of funding.
The funding comes from software giant SAP and existing investors, including Crosslink Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, Motorola Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures.
Amberpoint calls itself… Continue Reading
Acclarent raies $35M more for sinus treatment
Acclarent, a maker of a device for sinus treatments, has raised $35 million in a third round of funding, VentureWire reports (sub required):
Acclarent, based in Menlo Park, Calif., was founded in June 2004 to develop a balloon sinuplasty device as a less invasive way to… Continue Reading