Start-ups

Yipes Enterprise Services raised $17.5 million in fourth round funding, including a $9 million line of credit from SVB Silicon Valley Bank and additional Series D funding of $8.5 million...

SkyCross, a start-up developing advanced wireless antennas, announced an investment from Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, as part of their latest round of financing led by...

Zeugma Systems (pronounced "zoogma"), a start-up based in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised US$13.5 million in venture financing for its work developing a telecommunications system for next generation, high speed broadband...

Sourcefire, a start-up based in Columbia, Maryland, secured $20 million in late-stage funding for its popular "Snort" network intrusion prevention. The company's network defense system unifies intrusion and vulnerability management...

Navio, a start-up based in Cupertino, California, released version 2.0 of its "Rights over IP" (RoIP) platform for content distribution. The Navio AV Commerce 2.0 platform enables content owners to...

Modulus Video, a supplier of MPEG-4 AVC video encoding systems based in Sunnyvale, California, announced two executive appointments: Mark Magee as vice president of technology and chief architect; and Steve...

Axiom Systems, which develops carrier-grade service fulfillment software, named Brian Naughton to lead the company's global product strategy initiatives as VP of Architecture and Strategy. Naughton joins Axiom Systems from...

Packeteer, a supplier of WAN Application Optimization solutions, agreed to acquire privately-held Tacit Networks for for approximately $78 million in cash, plus the assumption of vested and unvested Tacit stock...

Meru Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $25 million in fourth round of funding for its enterprise wireless LAN solutions. The company said that over the past 12...

Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL), a supplier of semiconductor and FPD production equipment, had formed a new subsidiary to make strategic seed and early stage investments focusing on promising technological innovations....

Nakina Systems, a start-up developing multi-vendor security and element management solutions for network operators, announced that Marco Pagani, former President of Nortel Networks' Metro Optical and Optical Ethernet divisions, has...

Intel has made an investment in Zensys, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California that is developing mesh networking technology for wireless home control and automation. Financial terms were not...

Widevine Technologies, a provider of downloadable content protection and digital forensics solutions, announced strategic investments by Cisco Systems and TELUS. The Series C strategic round, worth a total of $16...