Amobee raises $22M strategic round from Cisco, Motorola and others for mobile advertising
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Amobee, a company that enables mobile carriers to insert advertising into nearly any form of mobile content, has raised a $22 million strategic round from Cisco, Motorola, Vodafone and a number of returning investors that include Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.
Unlike mobile advertising advertising companies like AdMob, which makes deals with publishers, Amobee is not an ad network. It works only with the carriers, who use Amobee’s technology to offer their customers ad-supported content for… Continue Reading
Sequans raises $28M for WiMAX chips
Sequans is a manufacturer of all kinds of chips for the WiMAX industry, from various base stations and terminals to personal chips for computers or mobile devices.
The company is based in Paris but also has offices in Cupertino. It has partnerships with Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent, who previously made undisclosed strategic investments in the firm.
Investment bank NATIXIS led the $28 million funding, with participation from Swisscom and Reliance Technology Ventures Limited. Sequans had also taken a… Continue Reading
Siimpel raises $21.5M for imaging technology for cellphones
Siimpel Corp., an Arcadia, Calif., maker of imaging technology for cellphone cameras, has raised $21.5 million in a fourth round of funding.
SunAmerica Ventures led the round. Other investors include Motorola, Qualcomm and Micron Technology and existing backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Scale Venture Partners, Global Catalyst Partners, Portage Venture Partners and Zone Venture Partners.
The company improves imaging for camera technology in cellphones, using MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), optics, electro-optical design, image sensors, packaging and camera electronics.
GoTV Networks raises $12M for TV over mobile phones
GoTV Networks, a Sherman Oaks, Calif. company that delivers TV over the mobile phone, has raised $12 million in a second round of financing from Motorola and Qualcomm.
GoTV failed in its original incarnation, and restarted in late 2004 to focus on mobile TV, with $15 million in a recapitalization round from Bessemer Venture Partners and Charles River Ventures.
It charges customers about $5 a month, and can be had on Boost Mobile, Cingular, Sprint Nextel Corp…. Continue Reading
DartDEVICES, the DEMO conundrum company, has $2.8M from Motorola
DARTdevices, of Mountain View, is a start-up that launched at DEMO today, that until this evening remained unintelligible to us.
It proclaims a technology that lets multiple devices interact with an application over a shared connection. Gigaom’s Katie Fehrenbacher sat down with the company, but even she was left wondering how it really matters. The idea appears to be, if you want to share photo content or game app between two otherwise incompatible devices, it… Continue Reading
Airplay gets $14M to merge TV football and mobile games
AirPlay, a San Francisco start-up that is taking live broadcasts of professional football games, and allowing cellphone users to see the broadcasts on their phone and play interactive games at the same time, said it has raised $14 million.
The investment is a second round from a combination of strategic investors and venture funds: Qualcomm, Motorola, and venture funds JK&B Capital, ONSET Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, all participated in the financing. It was led by JK&B…. Continue Reading
Ruckus Wireless has raised $16M for TV WiFi
Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale start-up that develops WiFi technology designed to carry Internet TV signals through large homes, including around and through walls and other barriers, has raised $16 million in a fourth round of funding.
The round was led by Motorola Ventures and T-Online, and included other private investors. The company has already received $14 million from Sequoia, WK Technology and Sutter Hill, and those investors participated in latest round, the company said.
The company said… Continue Reading
Home wifi co. Ruckus Wireless raises at least $15M
Ruckus Wireless, a Sunnyvale start-up that is developing hardware that helps extend WiFi in large homes and through walls to allow better transmission of digital television has raised at least $15 million more from a group of investors, including Motorola.
We’ll be able to report more on Monday.
Ruckus’ existing backers include Sequoia Capital and WK Technology Fund also took part in the round.