Ozmo takes $7.5M for wireless personal area networks
Ozmo Devices, provider of wireless personal area networks for consumers to run battery-powered devices for cheap, has taken in $7.5 million in a third round of funding targeted at $10 million from Granite Ventures, Intel Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital. The Palo Alto, Calif. company has now raised $32.5 million, including the $3.75 million it raised at the end of July, as part of this recent round.
Ozmo snags $3.75M for wireless personal area networks
Ozmo Devices, provider of technology that allows users to create wireless personal area networks for battery-operated devices at low prices, has raised $3.75 million toward an anticipated $10 million round of equity, according to PE Hub. Part of this sum came from the conversion of $750,000 in promissory notes acquired in June. The Palo Alto, Calif., company previously raised $12.5 million. It is backed by Granite Ventures, Intel Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital.
Silicon Clocks takes $7.1M for processor timing devices
Silicon Clocks, a Fremont, Calif. maker of smaller, cheaper chips with timing capabilities, has brought in $7.1 million of a targeted $10.7 million round of equity. The company says it will use the financing for working capital, reports VentureWire.
It last raised funds in 2007, adding $8 million to its then $19 million first round of funding. Past backers include Charles River Ventures, Formative Ventures and Tallwood Venture Capital.
Audience dials up $15M to suppress noise on cell phones
Audience, maker of mobile chips that can dampen background noise when people speak on their cell phones, just brought in $15 million in a fourth round of funding. This brings the Mountain View, Calif. company’s total capital to $60 million since its inception in 2004.
Audience claims that it modeled its product on the normal functioning of the human ear — allowing it to block out some sounds while focusing others. This allows users to have… Continue Reading
Pixim raises funds for high-quality surveillance camera chips
When you have a lot of customer traction, it isn’t hard to raise more money. Pixim, whose chips are used in hundreds of models of security cameras, has proven that by raising $13 million in a new round of funding from existing investors.
That means the company has raised over $100 million since its launch in 1999. Backers for the maker of image sensors and processors include Mayfield Fund, Ridgewood Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital. The… Continue Reading
Crossing Automation raises $6 million for wafer-handling tool business
Crossing Automation has raised $6 million in a first round of capital to expand its wafer-automation equipment business for chip factories.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company makes automated wafer-transfer systems. Backers include Intel Capital and Tallwood Venture Capital.
Crossing Automation was founded in 2003 to build a system that can handle large silicon wafers and move them from one piece of equipment to another inside a chip factory. The company argues that its system can save $24… Continue Reading
Audience announces $15M for clear voice communications
Audience, a maker of voice processing technology that mimics the sort of audio processing that happens in the human brain, has announced its $15 million third round of financing.
We actually covered Audience’s unveiling in February, and first broke news on the funding, but the announcement fills out list of investors,and now includes Tallwood Venture Capital and VentureTech Alliance. We already mentioned Paul Allen’sVulcan Capital and New Enterprise Associates.
The Mountain View, Calif., company makes the A1010,… Continue Reading
Semiconductor company Quintic raises $7.5M
Fabless semiconductor company Quintic has raised $7.5 million in a second round of funding, according to PE Wire. Venture firms Walden International, IDG VC, Tallwood Venture Capital and Harbinger Venture Management participated in the round. The Santa Clara, Calif. company, which makes circuits for wireless consumer electronics, raised $8.2 million in its first round in 2006.
Silicon Clocks raises $8M more for chip timing
Silicon Clocks is a fabless semiconductor company focused on integrating timing devices directly onto processor chips.
Current quartz-based technology, which is several decades old, requires a separate processor piece and is somewhat limited in its abilities. Silicon Clocks claims it can reduce the size and cost of chips by building a silicon-germanium micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) directly onto a chip.
The $8 million round is a second tranche, bringing the company’s total first funding to $19 million. Investors… Continue Reading
Collinear raises $3.1M for TV and projection technology
Collinear Corp., a Santa Clara, Calif. company developing high-power RGB illumination (see definition) based on semiconductor lasers and non-linear optical technology, has raised $3.1 million in a second round of funding.
Investors are Tallwood Venture Capital and Allegis Capital, according to PE Week Wire.
The company is focused on the television and front projection markets, and says it is developing technology that will improve cost and performance.
Collinear was originally funded in December of 2004, with the same… Continue Reading
CIA venture arm In-Q-Tel invests in video camera chip company, Pixim
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Pixim, a Mountain View, Calif. company that builds chips for videos cameras that improve color, and reduce blooming and smear in bad lighting conditions, has added more money to its second round of financing.
In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the U.S. intelligence agencies, participated in the latest financing, the company said in a statement.
Tallwood Venture Capital, Ridgewood Capital and Mayfield Fund have also contributed to this extension of the company’s second round, an extension totaling $15.3… Continue Reading
Teja, multiprocessor co., acquired by ARC for loss
ARC International, a chip company in Elstree, England, said it has acquried the assets of Teja Technologies, a private San Jose, Ca. multiprocessor company, to help improve ARC’s products.
The acquisition price was $5 million, with $3.4 million paid upfront, and the rest distributed once certain milestones are reached. That’s a lot less than what investors pumped into the company over the past eight years: Teja was founded in 1999, and raised about $24 million from… Continue Reading
Pixim raises $15M for high-performance chipset for video cameras
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Pixim, a Mountain View, Calif. company that builds chips for videos cameras that improve color, and reduce blooming and smear in bad lighting conditions, has raised $15 million.
The investment comes from Tallwood Venture Capital, Ridgewood Capital, Mayfield Fund and unnamed others.
Pixim’s chipset is called Orca, and the company says it has set a new standard for wide dynamic range.
From a company’s statement:
In recent test results published by Protector Magazine, the leading physical security publication… Continue Reading
Redfern, an optical transmitter co., raises $7M more
Redfern Integrated Optics, a developer and manufacturer of high-performance optical transmitters for communications, said it has raised an additional $7 million from TMT Ventures, Tallwood Venture Capital and Jolimont Capital.
This is another one of the multiple companies founded during the telecom bubble year of 2000. It has raised about $32 million, and somehow has survived the downturn.
The company cites a recent report from CIR, a market research and consulting firm, which says the market… Continue Reading