Hot Start-ups

Sub 10 Systems, a start-up based in the UK, announced a global supply and distribution agreement with Alcatel-Lucent covering Sub 10’s millimetre wave Liberator radio products.  Alcatel-Lucent will resell the Sub10...

Xirrus, a start-up based in Thousand Oaks, California, secured $23.5 million in Series E funding for its high-performance Wi-Fi solutions. The company offers a Wi-Fi Array that integrates 4, 8,...

Cisco has acquired ThinkSmart Technologies, a software developer specializing in location data analysis using Wi-Fi.  Financial terms were not disclosed. ThinkSmart’s location analytics collects information on movement within a venue including...

SimpliVity, a start-up based in Westborough, MA, raised $25 million in Series B funding for its "OmniCube" Software Defined Data Center in a Box.  SimpliVity describes its OmniCube as the world’s first truly assimilated...

CohesiveFT, a start-up providing enterprise application-to-cloud migration solutions, has joined the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). CohesiveFT, which was founded in 2006 and is based in Chicago, supplies an application-controlled SDN...

Arista Networks unveiled a new low-latency data center switch family designed for software-defined networking (SDN) in Big Data, Cloud Networks, Financial Trading, HPC and Web 2.0 environments. The new switches...

BLiNQ Networks, a start-up based in Plano, Texas, raised an additional $10 million in funding for its intelligent wireless backhaul solutions. BLiNQ Networks was founded in June 2010 after the...

CENX, which specializes in Carrier Ethernet interconnect systems and services, announced new investments in the company by Ericsson, Verizon Investments, Mesirow Financial Private Equity Inc., DCM, Highland Capital Partners, and...

Google has acquired VirusTotal, a start-up offering a free virus scanning service for an undisclosed sum. The company allows anyone to upload files to the site to check for the...

Sand 9, a start-up based in Cambridge, Mass., announced that Ericsson has invested $3 million in the company. Sand 9's MEMS timing-device uses piezoelectric actuation to achieve stringent phase noise...

Tenable Network Security, which offers software to identify network security gaps, has raised $50 million in first-round funding from Accel Partners. Tenable said its Nessus and SecurityCenter software has become...

Telefónica is launching Amérigo, an international venture capital fund that will develop digital opportunities outside of Silicon Valley and London. Promoted by Telefónica Digital, this initiative lays the foundation to...

CloudPhysics, a start-up based in San Mateo, California, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding for its a data center analytics service. CloudPhysics, which was founded by former VMware...