AOptix Technologies Raises $15 Million in New Venture Funding
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AOptix Technologies, Inc., (www.aoptix.com)  a leading edge developer of advanced iris recognition systems and  ultra-high bandwidth laser communication solutions, announced today the  close of a $15 million dollar financing round led by DAG Ventures,  located in Palo Alto, CA.
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ActiveGrid lands multimillion-dollar funding for plan to use open-source tools, low-cost servers for Web applications.
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STOCKHOLM - Nasdaq and Borse Dubai said yesterday they raised their bid for Sweden's OMX exchange by 15 percent to $4.9 billion and entered agreements with key shareholders to secure nearly half of OMX shares.
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What a new venture fund says about the future of the industry.
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A project to build a digital camera of cosmic dimensions on a mountaintop in Chile has received a $30 million boost from a pair of software moguls and philanthropists.
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TheFind.com has secured $15 million in Series C financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. The financing is planned to build new product development, traffic and revenue growth, and further expand TheFind.com&#8217;s business development efforts. The financing will also be used to grow TheFind.com&#8217;s search capabilities beyond the 170 million products and 500,000 stores it currently indexes, [...]
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Blog: In-Q-Tel, a private investment firm launched by the CIA to support U.S. intelligence agencies, is among those that invested $15 million in Pixim, which makes image sensors for surveillance cameras.
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SourceLabs will use the venture capital for ongoing research and development and to expand its sales and marketing. Ignition Partners was founded by Microsoft veterans -- including
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Benchmark Capital is becoming the go-to venture firm for open source, says CNET Blog Network contributor Matt Asay.
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The maker of open-source software said higher revenue from subscriptions for its Linux operating software propelled its results.
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StrikeIron, innovative pioneer of online services and software to simplify working with Web services, have secured $2.6 million of venture capital to further develop its recently launched Web Services Business NetworkT (WSBizNetT) and to expand its marketing and sales activities.
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A breakthrough technology is generating hyper growth.
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Blog: The social network for spewing random thoughts is on the road to raising its first round of venture funding.
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Intel&#39;s venture-capital arm has invested in Nirvanix, a San Diego start-up company that offers a scalable online storage service.Intel Capital said Wednesday it had invested an undisclosed amount in Nirvanix, which in turn expects to benefit from access to technologies that can improve its service and expand the number of storage nodes it owns.At the heart of its service is an API (application programming interface) called Nirvanix Web Services that allows developers to incorporate the online storage service in their applications, and can be used by companies to store application data. That service charges customers a monthly rate of $0.18 per gigabyte of data that is stored or transferred. The API allows developers to control the amount stored and the bandwidth made available to the application.In addition to Intel Capital, Nirvanix investors include Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners, and Windward Ventures.
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By The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.  Feb. 8--CHAMPAIGN -- RiverGlass Inc., a software company that uses  data-mining technology developed at the University of Illinois, announced this  week that it raised $4 million in venture capital in its latest round of  funding.
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At a conference of investors and entrepreneurs this week, several prominent venture capitalists agreed: $15 billion is about the right valuation for Facebook.
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Vertex announces a boost to its pipeline.