Start-ups

Atrica named Scott Messenger as its new vice president of Marketing, replacing Nan Chen, who has left the company to pursue other opportunities. Prior to Atrica, Messenger was Director of...

NewCross Technologies, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, announced the completion of a $5.2 million series B round of equity financing to support its hosted IP telephony solution for...

CyOptics, a supplier of optical chips and components, raised an additional $3 million as part of its Series F funding round. Birchmere Ventures joined prior investors JVP, Sprout Group, TowerBrook...

MFORMA, a start-up with operation in the U.S. the U.K., China and Korea, raised $30 million in a third round venture funding for its mobile content distribution service. MFORMA is...

Zimbra, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, unveiled an open source messaging server and client that uses an AJAX-based model for delivering the web service. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite...

Hammerhead Systems announced the appointments of Kevin Pope as VP of Engineering, and Kim Holmes as VP of Operations and VP of Customer Support. Pope most recently as Vice President...

Meru Networks, a supplier of wireless VoIP infrastructure, named Om Tiku, as Vice President of Engineering. Previously, Mr. Tiku spent over nine years at Cisco, where he was responsible for...

Cisco Systems agreed to acquire Nemo Systems, a start-up based in Los Altos, California, for up to $12.5 million in cash. Nemo Systems has developed technology in the network memory...

Siemens Communications agreed to acquire Garderos Software Innovations GmbH, a start-up based in Munich, for an undisclosed sum. Garderos supplies software for operational support systems (OSS). Siemens said this OSS...

Motorola Ventures has made an equity investment in July Systems, a developer of smart mobile retailing technology that enables the rapid creation of mobile storefronts to give consumers the convenience...

InfiniRoute Networks, provider of fully managed VoIP peering services for wireline and wireless carriers worldwide, has relocated its headquarters to Princeton, New Jersey from San Francisco, California. InfiniRoute also announced...

Axerra Networks, a start-up based in Boca Raton, Florida and Herzliya, Israel, secured $16.25 million in series C venture financing for its circuit emulation and service emulation solutions over packet...

Technology Partnerships Canada (TPC) will invest $7 million dollars in Ottawa-based Tundra Semiconductor to accelerate the research and development of next-generation RapidIO System Interconnect products. The RapidIO standard addresses the...