Start-ups

SiTime Corporation, which specializes in silicon MEMS solutions for timing and synchronization applications, announced new venture funding led by Innovative Venture Fund, which is co-operated by NEC Capital Solutions and...

On Wednesday, November 6, in New York City, Cisco Chairman and CEO John Chambers will host a news conference in partnership with Insieme, its spin-in start-up focused on application-centric data...

CENTRI Technology, a start-up based in Seattle, announced a $13 million Series C round of financing to support its mobile bandwidth optimization and bandwidth management solutions. CENTRI’s BitSmartCX platform uses...

Cloudian, a start-up based in Foster City, California, announced Series B funding from Intel Capital. Cloudian develops software for distributed object storage in cloud and enterprise use cases. Cloudian aims...

Calxeda, a start-up developing ARM-based “EnergyCore” Server-on-a-Chip designed for a new generation of high-density servers, announce today that Frank Frankovsky, chairman and president of the Open Compute Foundation, has joined...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now offering a package of resources for start-ups, including AWS credits, training, developer support, a special start-up community forum and special offers from third parties....

GreenWave Reality, a start-up based in Irvine, California, raised $19 million in Series B funding to accelerate the rollout of its Home2Cloud platform through its global partners and scale up...

Mavenir Systems filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The number of shares to be offered and...

SAP Ventures, the independent venture capital firm affiliated with SAP AG, has raised more than US$650 million for a new direct investment fund, SAP Ventures Fund II.  The company has...

IBM agreed to acquire The Now Factory, a privately held provider of analytics software for communications service providers, for an undisclosed sum. The Now Factory, which is based in Dublin,...

Violin Memory raised $162 million in an initial public offering (IPO) of 18 million shares priced at $9 on Friday. Trading of VMEM on the NYSE closed at $7.02, down...

RANOVUS, a start-up based in Ottawa, Ontario, announced $11 million in venture funding for its multi-terabit interconnect solutions for data center and communications networks. RANOVUS’ platform is enabled by the...

F5 Networks agreed to acquire Versafe, a start-up specializing in web anti-fraud, anti-phishing, and anti-malware solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed. Versafe, which is based in Tel Aviv Israel, offers...