Start-ups

Telefónica is launched a new investment vehicle to foster cybersecurity startups.Telefónica Tech Ventures, which is promoted by Telefónica ElevenPaths cybersecurity company and Telefónica Innovation Ventures (TIV), aims to discover and...

 Alkira, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced $54 million in Series B funding for its global network cloud delivered as-a-service.Alkira's  Cloud Services Exchange (CSX) offers a simplified networking...

 Rockley Photonics, a start-up specializing in integrated optical chips and modules, has closed an additional $50 million of growth funding from leading deep-tech VCs, strategic investors, and institutional funds including...

 HAPSMobile, a start-up backed by SoftBank with minority investment by AeroVironment, reached an altitude of 62,500 feet (approximately 19 kilometers) during the fifth test flight for “Sunglider,” a solar-powered unmanned...

Arista Networks agreed to acquire Awake Security, a start-up offering a Network Detection and Response (NDR) platform. Financial terms were not disclosed.Awake, which is based in Santa Clara, California, combines...

 Snowflake, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, completed an initial public offering (IPO) of 28,000,000 shares of Class A common stock at a price to the public of $120.00...

 JFrog, which describes itself as "the “Database of DevOps” and de-facto standard in release and update management", raised $509 million in an initial public offering (IPO) of 11,568,218 ordinary shares...

Kymeta, a developer of satellite antennas, completed an $85 million funding round led by Bill Gates with members of the leadership team personally investing approximately $1 million, including Kymeta Executive...

Fungible was founded in 2015 to revolutionize the performance, economics, reliability, and security of scale-out data centers. In this video, Pradeep Sindhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Fungible, shares observations about...

Lumina Networks, a start-up based in San Jose, California that developed open source carrier orchestration software, announced its exit from the market. In a blog post, Andrew Coward, Lumina's CEO,...

SiFive and Innovium, announced a collaboration to drive faster innovation in switch silicon solutions. SiFive specializes in RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions. Innovium is known for its networking switch...

SiFive, a start-up specializing in RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions,  raised $61 million in a Series E round. SiFive, which is based in San Mateo, California, develops a range...

Verizon Ventures led a $4.5 million Series A financing round backing PICadvanced, a start-up targetting NG-PON2. PICadvanced, which is based in Portugal, is working on NG-PON2 transceivers - including innovation...