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Karmasphere Raises $5 MillionKarmasphere, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based developer of business analytics software that brings Apache Hadoop to the desktop, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and U.S. Venture Partners co-led the round.
- Telecom Infrastructure Is Hot Again
For years, communications networking has been pretty much a one-way investment bet. That is, money went into startups, but very little came back out. In recent weeks though, that’s been changing. At least three companies in the sector have gone public in the past three weeks, and others are waiting in the wings. Overall, market reception has been warm. Shares in wireless network provider Meru Networks closed up 28% in first-day trading on March 31, with shares trading in a narrow range since. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Meru which sells wireless LAN equipment, raised $66 million in a Nasdaq offering. Principle shareholders include Clearstone Venture Partners (21% stake), Vision Opportunity Master Fund (19%), NeoCarta Ventures (18%) Bluestream Ventures (16%) and D.E. Shaw (16%). Meru has raised $171 million in venture funding since 2002. Telecom equipment maker Calix Networks also posted double-digit gains in its debut a week earlier. Calix, a Petaluma, Calif.-based provider of communications access systems and software, priced its 6.3 million shares offering at $13 per share, the high end of its proposed range. The stock closed up 16% in first-day
- Box.net Raises $15 Million
Box.net, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of an online filing system, has raised $15 million in Series C funding. Scale Venture Partners led the round, and was joined by return backers Draper Fisher Jurvetson and U.S. Venture Partners. Box.net previously raised around $14.5 million.
- Week in deals, April 5, 2010
Summary of tech companies and other startups in North America that raised venture financing in the past week
IPO Pace Improves, But Comes at a PriceYes, your portfolio company can go public ... if it is willing to cut its offering price
- Intel Announces $3.5B VC Partnership
Two dozen venture firms join effort, with goal of increasing U.S. competitiveness
- A Peek at ThreatMetrix, and Why It's Becoming Integral to a Lot of Other Startups
You may not know ThreatMetrix, but plenty of companies are already well-acquainted with what it does and how it can help them, from popular social networks and dating sites to retailers to financial services companies, including peHUB parent Thomson Reuters. Here’s why: Los Gatos, Calif.-based ThreatMetrix stops online fraud by “fingerprinting” the devices used to commit it, and according to some -- including the folks at PayPal and Gartner Group security analyst Avivah Litan http://www.internetretailer.com/ECTR/article.asp?id=34003 -- ThreatMetrix appears to be doing it better than its competitors. The 36-person startup is just getting started, says 55-year-old CEO Reed Tausing, who joined the company the data privacy company Vormetric and was the CEO and fifth employee of now publicly traded Callidus Software. We talked for a bit this morning. Read our conversation after the jump...