Start-ups

Aperto Networks, a start-up based in Milpitas, California, raised $26 million in venture funding for its WiMAX base stations and subscriber units. Aperto is a founding board member of the...

YouTube, a consumer media company that lets people upload and share short video clips, received $8 million in Series B funding from Sequoia Capital. This contributes to the initial $3.5...

Atrica raised $28.2 million in a new round of new financing to support its carrier Ethernet platforms. The company is currently engaged with 30+ carriers worldwide. Atrica's Carrier Ethernet portfolio...

Rave Wireless, a start-up based in New York, closed $12 million in Series B funding for its GPS-enhanced mobile applications for college and university communities. The company business model is...

Panasonic Corporation of North America will acquire the assets of Tropian, a start-up developing polar modulation techniques for use in wireless transmitter applications. Tropian's technique, when applied to the transmitter...

Intel has created a US$50 million venture capital fund to promote technology growth in Brazil. Since 1999, Intel Capital has already invested over US$35 million in 13 companies. In 2005,...

FiberZone Networks, a start-up based in Bethesda, Maryland, raised $8 million in second round funding for its automated, physical fiber management tools. Beta trials of the system are planned for...

Groove Mobile, a start-up based in Andover, Mass., raised $8.5 million for its mobile music e-commerce platform. Groove Mobile is powering the new Sprint Music Store as well as mobile...

Napatech, a start-up based in Copenhagen, raised $5 million in new funding for its programmable network adapters. Napatech's product portfolio includes a 1 Gbps and a 10 Gbps platform that...

Sipera Systems, a start-up based in Richardson, Texas, secured $13.2M in series B round funding for its security solutions for VoIP, mobile and multimedia communications. The round was led by...

New Global Telecom (NGT), a provider of hosted VoIP services, raised announced the completion of a $10.75 million Series A Preferred Stock financing round to fund continued expansion. The company...

Cisco Systems will acquire privately-held SyPixx Networks, a developer of network-centric video surveillance software and hardware, for approximately $51 million in cash and options. SyPixx enables existing analog video surveillance...

AllPeers Ltd, a software start-up based in Oxford, England, raised series A funding for its peer-to-peer multimedia application for the Firefox browser. Serving as an extension to Firefox, AllPeers uses...