SandForce gathers $21M for flash memory processors
SandForce, maker of flash memory processors, has raised $21 million in a third round of funding. Based in Santa Clara, Calif., the company is backed by TransLink Capital, UMC Capital, LSI Corp., Red Maple Ventures, Darwin Ventures, A-Data Technology, DCM, Storm Ventures and unnamed others.
Consentry nabs $9.4M for tighter network control
Consentry Networks, a Milpitas, Calif. company that gives network administrators more direct control over computing infrastructure and applications, just raised $9.4 million from DAG Ventures, Invesco Private Capital, Northgate Capital, Translink Capital and Vedanta Capital.
The new money will go toward development of its network management product LANShield, a platform that gives users visibility into and control over all of the various operations and applications active on a system at any given time, the company claims…. Continue Reading
Melodis matches $7 million with its music discovery service
Ever hear a catchy tune but not know the name of the song or the artist? Midomi, a web site and mobile service, lets you play a recorded song or sing a snippet of it yourself, and then it matches that information to its library of more than 17 million song samples. Then, you can listen to the recommended samples and go buy the song on iTunes or watch related videos on YouTube.
Midomi’s parent company,… Continue Reading
Eye-Fi raises round for wireless photo uploading cards
Uploading photos to web sharing sites — as fast as you can take pictures — is kind of a new obssession for the digerati. Eye-Fi is riding that wave with memory cards that have built-in Wi-Fi antennae that can upload photos to photo-sharing sites.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has raised $11 million in a second round of funding. The lead investors include Translink Capital and LMS Capital. Existing investors Opus Capital and Shasta Ventures also… Continue Reading
DeCarta raises another $20M for its location-based platform
DeCarta, the creator of a popular platform for managing location-based (LBS) data, has raised $20 million in additional funding. That includes financing from the Hotung Group and TransLink Capital, as well as existing investor Norwest Venture Partners and a previously announced $6 million from the T-Mobile Venture Fund.
The location-based market still looks like it’s heating up — for example, location-based social application companies like Loopt and Whrrl have been getting a lot of attention, especially… Continue Reading
ConSentry, raises $21M for a switch to rival Cisco
ConSentry, a Silicon Valley startup that says its Internet network switches are more efficient than those of giant incumbent Cisco, has raised a $21 million round of funding.
Switches are components that route traffic from through the wider Internet network.
However, large corporations that buy switches to route their traffic often demand security feature to control access (sometimes called Network Access Control). As networks have become faster, security has become more of a challenge, Consentry said.
ConSentry’s switches… Continue Reading