Start-ups

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...

Ermetic, a start-up with offices in Palo Alto and Tel Aviv, raised $17.25 million in Series A funding for its work in cloud access risk mitigation Ermetic says its analytics-based...

PacketFabric appointed Chris Dedicoat, the former executive vice president of worldwide sales for Cisco, as chairman of the PacketFabric board. Dedicoat has more than 25 years of sales and marketing...

Amazon agreed to acquire Zoox, a start-up developing purpose-built, zero-emissions vehicles designed for autonomous ride-hailing, along with an end-to-end autonomy software stack. Financial terms were not disclosed. Zoox's ground-up vehicle...

Juniper Networks has acquired Vitalpointz, a start-up based that specializes in IoT cloud development tools. Terms of the apparent "acqui-hire" have not been disclosed. Under the deal, Juniper would gain...

Cisco agreed to acquire privately-held ThousandEyes, a provider of real-time visibility tools for the delivery of applications and services over the Internet. Financial terms were not disclosed. ThousandEyes, which is...

Couchbase, which offers a NoSQL database, raised $105 million in its Series G round of fundraising. The new funding round was led by GPI Capital, also included oversubscribed participation from...

A new 5G Open Innovation Lab (5G OI Lab) is now underway with support founding partners Intel, NASA and T-Mobile. 5G OI Lab will provide engineering, technology and industry resources...