Hot Start-ups

Xelerated, a start-up based in Burlington, Massachusettes, raised $12.5 million in new funding for its high-performance network processors. Xelerated's X10q chip provides up to 40 Gbps of programmable packet processing...

Motorola Ventures, the venture capital arm of Motorola, has made a strategic investment in Appairent Technologies, a developer of wireless multimedia semiconductors based in Rochester, New York. Appairent Technologies was...

VocalData, a start-up headquartered in Richardson, Texas, secured $12.5 million in Series C funding for its development of hosted IP telephony services. VocalData's flagship VOISS is a feature-rich, standards-based voice...

Ikanos Communications received new funding from TL Ventures to close its Series D round with $33 million. The company will use the additional capital to support volume shipments of its...

ZettaCom, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, secured $19.2 million in its third round of funding. ZettaCom is currently shipping its Terabit Switch Fabric and OC-192 Advanced Traffic Manager...

The T-Mobile Venture Fund is making a investment in Flarion Technologies, a start-up offering an "IP-friendly" flash-OFDM wireless broadband system. Financial terms were not disclosed. Flarion said its technology lets...

Magnolia Broadband, a developer of integrated, multi-transceiver, low-power RF chips for mobile phones, closed $6 million in third round funding. The company's forthcoming DiversityPlus based RFIC chipset, which is expected...

Sanera Systems, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, received $35 million in third round financing to support the development of its terabit, protocol transparent SAN switch. Sanera's DS10000 datacenter-class director,...

Bitfone, a start-up based in Laguna Niguel, California, has secured additional funding from Motorola Ventures for its over-the-air (OTA) firmware update technology for mobile phones. Bitfone's technology enables the updating...

Orthogon Systems (formerly Pipinghot Networks), a start-up based in Waltham, Massachusetts and Ashburton, UK, announced commercial availability of a Wireless Ethernet bridge that operates in the license-exempt 5.8GHz spectrum band....

Orative, a start-up based in Menlo Park, California, raised $6 million in its first round of venture capital financing to support its development of enterprise mobile telephony software. Product plans...

Procket Networks signed a sales and systems integration partnership with Technica Corporation, an IT systems integrator for military, security and civilian government agencies. The agreement covers Procket's PRO/8000 High-Availability Routers....

FutureSoft, a developer of communications and embedded software solutions, announced strategic investments from IL&FS Investment Managers Limited (IIML) and Intel Capital. FutureSoft plans to scale up its IP business targeting...