Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital

Former Adobe CEO, Chizen, joins Voyager Capital

Voyager Capital has brought Bruce Chizen, former chief executive officer of Adobe Systems, on board as a venture partner. A long-time member of the Menlo Park, Calif. firm’s advisory board, he will be focusing his efforts on digital media and software opportunities.

Chizen is a prestigious… Continue Reading

Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more

Website wiki AboutUs raises $2.5M more

AboutUs, a website with user-written and -edited profiles of other websites, has raised another $2.5 million in venture funding, according to TechFlash.

On its profile page, the Portland-based company describes itself as “your guide to websites,” with profiles of more than 10 million sites already in… Continue Reading

Keystream launches online video advertising overlay service

Keystream launches online video advertising overlay service

Keystream is an online video ad startup coming out of stealth today, joining a pack of others trying to do similar things. It lets an online video publisher run an ad that appears in the empty part of a video. For example, in this picture… Continue Reading

Nusym Technology raises a round for chip design verification

Nusym Technology raises a round for chip design verification

Nusym Technology has raised $8 million in a second round of funding for its chip design verification business. The Los Gatos company makes software for verifiying the functions of circuitry in complex chip designs.

The company will use the new money to refine its products. Chip… Continue Reading

1020 Placecast serves location-based ads on Eventful

1020 Placecast serves location-based ads on Eventful

When I got a chance to meet with events web site Eventful back in July to look at their iPhone application, the company informed me it was working on some interesting ways to incorporate advertisements. Today, it revealed those plans: It’s the first cross-platform partner… Continue Reading

Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward

Seattle VC firms Maveron and Voyager Capital venture southward

Two Seattle-based VC firms, Maveron and Voyager Capital, have recently brought on new partners to extend their reach to the south.

Maveron, which hit a homerun with an early investment in eBay, but has yet to match that success, has expanded its San Francisco office by… Continue Reading

Sensys Networks raises $5M for vehicle sensors

Sensys Networks, which makes wireless sensors for vehicle detection and traffic data collection, has raised $5 million in a fourth round of funding. The round was led by Voyager Capital, with participation from existing investors Velocity Interactive, Horizon Ventures and Garrett Gruener.

The Berkeley, Calif. startup… Continue Reading

Elemental Technologies raises $7.1M for video software

Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Ore. provider of parallel video processing software, has raised $7.1 million in new funding led by General Catalyst Partners and Voyager Capital.

Elemental says its software can perform video encoding, transcoding and filtering at unprecedented speeds without sacrificing quality by using general… Continue Reading

Ontela claims $10M for mobile to computer photo transfers

Ontela is a Seattle-based startup that helps consumers move photos from their mobile phone to their computers, charging a monthly fee of $2.99 for the service.

The company benefits from the profusion of different phone and computer models, which make it difficult for manufacturers or carriers… Continue Reading

CapitalStream sells to HCL Technologies for $40M

Founded before the dotcom boom, Seattle-based CapitalStream managed to pull in $75 million in funding during that era from a number of funds, most of whom subsequently abandoned the investment prior to a restructuring of the company.

The company makes a product called FinanceCenter that is… Continue Reading

Yapta, airfare tracker, raises $2.3 million

Yapta, airfare tracker, raises $2.3 million

Seattle-based Yapta, a service that informs you when the price of plane tickets you want drops, has raised $2.3 million.

The company is one of many trying to provide ways for people to save money on airfare, but its approach is a bit different: Yapta lets… Continue Reading