Start-ups

MariaDB announced $9 million in venture funding to support its open-source relational database solutions. The company also named  Michael Howard as its CEO and Michael “Monty” Widenius as chief technology...

Kumu Networks, a start-up based in Sunnyvale, California, raised $25 million in series C funding for its full-duplex wireless technology. Kumu enables a radio to simultaneously transmit and receive overlapping...

Docker has acquired Unikernel Systems, a start-up focused on unikernel development. Financial terms were not disclosed. Unikernel Systems, which is based in Cambridge, UK, is comprised of pioneers from the...

ForeScout Technologies, which specializes in agentless cybersecurity, secured $76 million in additional late-stage funding. ForeScout provides the ability to see and control the rapidly growing population of unsecured and dark...

Instart Logic, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, raised $45 million in Series D funding for its application delivery solutions. Instart Logic uses software-defined architecture to accelerate application delivery....

Plexxi disclosed a strategic investment from GV (formerly Google Ventures). Financial terms were not disclosed. Plexxi said GV’s investment enables it to continue to scale its networking product offerings and...

Big Switch Networks raised $48.5 million in a Series C funding round. The company, which is based in Santa Clara, California, said it experienced more than 300% growth in 2015...

Riverbed announced the acquisition of Ocedo, a leading provider of software-defined networking and SD-WAN (software-defined wide-area-network) solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Ocedo, which is based in Karlsruhe, Germany, developed...

IronScales, a start-up based in Israel, announced $1.5 million in seed funding for its development of an intrusion prevention system with an automated phishing-mitigation response. IronScales said its crowd-wisdom-based phishing-mitigation...

VeloCloud Networks, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, closed $27 million in Series C financing for its cloud SD-WAN solution. VeloCloud enable enterprises to rapidly, seamlessly and economically expand...

Shape Security, a start-up based in Mountain View, California, announced $25 million in Series D funding to accelerate deployments of its Shape Botwall Service. The Shape Botwall Service, available in...

MultiPhy, which specializes in digital-signal-processing based integrated circuits for high-speed communications, announced $17 million in new funding from existing and new investors, comprising of both venture capitalists and major strategic...

Nutanix has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. Nutanix is seeking to...