This Campbell, CA, company specializes in input systems that allow for both fingerprint authentication and touch navigation on mobile devices. It’s technology can offer the same fingerprint-driven password protection that laptops have featured for the past couple of years.

We wrote about this company when it raised $9 million in its first round.

Earlier this month, Atrua announced that Bird, China’s top producer of mobile phones, selected Atrua’s fingerprint touch control technology for use on their phones:

They do, however, face stiff competition in the fledging “touched-based controls” industry. AuthenTec, a publicly traded company out of Melbourne, already holds a significant amount of market share. They claim to have shipped more than 15 million fingerprint sensors over the past year and a half.

The funding was from several investors: Nokia Venture Partners, Ericsson Venture Partners, NeoCarta Ventures, and Shanghai Hua Hong International.

Like

Like’s chief executive Munjal Shah has proven nimble. He started two years ago with photo search, with a product originally called Riya. He then changed quickly, when he realized the market was stronger in visual search for shopping. Riya is the name of the parent company.

Like is now getting three million monthly unique visitors a month, Shah says. That’s been driven by new features, including one that lets other site owners make their own images clickable, and then searchable by Like. To do this, Web site owners add a line of javacript code to their site, and this highlights items in an image, so that you click on specific item, for example a shirt someone is wearing, and Like does a search for it.

Like has also bought Adwords beside Google search results to drive traffic. Finally, Like has worked hard to increase click-through rates in other ways. We’ll be hearing more from Like soon.

Here’s our previous coverage.

Investors include previous investors Nokia Venture Partners, Bay Partners, and Leapfrog Ventures.