Start-ups

Cisco has made an equity investment in Grid Net, a San Francisco start-up developing Smart Grid and Smart Home software platforms for utilities, their partners and their customers. The Grid...

SiBEAM, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $36.5 million in Series D funding for its 60 GHz CMOS chipsets for WirelessHD applications. The company's second generation 60 GHz wireless...

Cloudmark, a start-up based in San Francisco and Boston, raised $23 million in a new round of funding for its carrier-grade secure messaging software. Cloudmark leverages a unique combination of...

Force10 Networks filed SEC papers for an initial public offering (IPO). The San Jose, California-based company specializes in high performance switches and routers for data center and other network deployments....

Quantenna Communications, a start-up based in Fremont, California, raised $15 million in a Series D round of financing for its 4X4 MIMO 802.11n chipsets designed for next gen home networking...

RAYSPAN introduced an LTE antenna solution that can support six or more bands operating from 698 MHz to 960 MHz in the low band and 1710-2170 MHz as well as...

Silicon Valley captured nearly 40% of all venture capital in the U.S. during 2009, according to data from Pricewaterhouse Coopers that was published by the San Jose Mercury News. The...

A minority of mobile data users consume the majority of network bandwidth -- with 10% generating approximately 85% of total traffic, according to a new 1Q 2010 Global Metrics Report...

Motorola has made an equity investment in Zenverge, a start-up developing advanced media integrated circuits (ICs). Financial terms were not disclosed. Zenverge's media ICs support transcoding, decoding and encoding of...

Ozmo Devices, a start-up developing low-power Wi-Fi Personal Area Network (Wi-Fi PAN) silicon and software, appointed Bill McLean as its new CEO. McLean was co-founder and CEO of GloNav, a...

3Crowd Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California announced a crowd-sourcing method of leveraging multiple content delivery networks (CDNs). For content owners with high customer service goals, 3Crowd offers...

Gigamon has raised $22.8 million from Highland Capital Partners in its first institutional financing to support its data access switching product line. The Gigamon platform provides data access span ports...

Ustream, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced a $75 million Series B funding round lead by SOFTBANK of Japan. The funding will support Ustream's one-to-many live streaming to...