Start-ups

Five new Silicon Valley start-ups have joined the roster at the Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence incubation program. These are: C3DNA (http://c3dna.com) delivers self-reliance and portability of any application on any...

Cisco has agreed to acquire ParStream, a privately-held company based in Cologne, Germany that provides an analytics database that allows companies to analyze large amounts of data and store it...

ZeroStack, a start-up based in Mountain View, California announced $16 million in new funding for its scale-out private cloud that converges compute, storage, networking and management services. The ZeroStack Cloud...

Pure Storage, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, completed its initial public offering (IPO) of 25,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public...

Aquantia, a start-up based in San Jose, California, announced $37 million in Series H funding for its 10GBASE-T Ethernet silicon solutions for data centers. Aquantia's 10GBASE-T and AQrate PHY product...

NodePrime, a start-up based in San Francisco, emerged from stealth and announced $7 million in seed funding for its software-defined datacenter platform. NodePrime's mission is to enable companies to centrally...

A newly released Mirantis OpenStack 7.0 distribution focuses on enhanced scalability, resilience, and support in mission-critical enterprise environments. “Early OpenStack releases were all about more features fast, as it was...

PLUMgrid released a new version of its Open Networking Suite (ONS) for OpenStack with support for multiple OpenStack distributions, Load Balancing as a Service (LBaaS) plugins, high availability, and dynamic...

Qualcomm plans to invest up to $150 million in Indian startup companies. Qualcomm Ventures has been investing in promising Indian startups since 2007 and currently has more than 20 Indian...

UNIFi Software, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, raised $10 million in Series A funding for its enterprise data integration solution. The company's mission is to build an application...

Zscaler announced a continuation of its oversubscribed Series D round from Google Capital. This latest round of financing brings the company's total funding raised in the Series D to $110...

Blue Jeans Network, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, secured $76.5 million in new funding for its cloud-based video collaboration services. Blue Jeans first launched its video as a...

Cloudflare, a start-up based in San Francisco, announced $110 million in funding from Microsoft, Google, Baidu, Qualcomm and Fidelity. Cloudflare offers website supercharging services, including a CDN, content optimization tools,...