• Celeno

  Participated · Equity · Sep 2016

  Celeno offers advanced Wi-Fi chipsets, edge software and cloud technology to take Wi-Fi beyond connectivity into smart homes, smart cities, smart buildings and smart industry. Its smart Wi‑Fi technologies include advanced QoS management, multi‑AP mesh management and smart antenna technology to intelligently manage connections and enable consumers to achieve true Gigabit speeds. Its chipsets are used by OEM customers such as ARRIS, Compal and Samsung in home gateways, routers, set‑top boxes, Wi‑Fi access points and extenders. The technology is deployed in tens of millions of homes worldwide with Tier‑1 service providers including Charter Communications in North America and Vodafone and Liberty Global across 15 countries in Europe and Latin America. Founded in 2005 and based in Ra’anana, Israel, the company has a global presence with offices in the US, EMEA and Asia Pacific. Celeno intends to use the newly raised funds for expansion in Europe and for product development. Celeno Communications develops smart, managed Wi‑Fi solutions, including an 802.11ac chip portfolio and software technologies engineered for highly interfered, dense network scenarios. Its chips and software have been integrated into numerous OEM Wi‑Fi devices and deployed in tens of millions of homes by almost 100 leading service providers worldwide. The company is led by CEO Gilad Rozen and was founded in 2005 in Ra’anana, Israel. Celeno raised $38M in funding to support its operations. The company intends to use the proceeds to increase investment in new technology and R&D, expand its global presence, and boost sales and marketing efforts. These plans aim to grow deployments and commercial reach with existing service‑provider customers. Celeno Communications develops high-performance Wi‑Fi chips and software for HD multimedia and high-performance data home networking applications. Its field-proven OptimizAIR™ technology optimizes standards-based Wi‑Fi with channel-aware scheduling, rate selection, antenna selection and power adaptation to enable reliable distribution of up to eight 1080p HD video streams. The company's solutions deliver HD performance to third-party Wi‑Fi client devices including set-top boxes, tablets, wireless TVs, DVRs, media streamers and laptops. Celeno's chips have been deployed with over 75 service providers worldwide, including Deutsche Telekom, Liberty Global, UPC, Bouygues Telecom and China Telecom. Founded in 2005 and led by CEO Gilad Rozen, the company is based in Ra’anana, Israel. It plans to use recent funding to expand its 802.11ac development program and grow sales, marketing and engineering teams globally. Celeno develops WiFi chipsets powered by its proprietary OptimizAIR technology suite to improve 802.11n performance and enable HD video with whole-home coverage. The company says its chips deliver up to 10 times the range and throughput of legacy 802.11n solutions. Liberty Global adopted Celeno’s technology for its multimedia home gateway months before investing. Founded in 2005, Celeno maintains offices and representatives in EMEA, the U.S. and Asia‑Pacific. The $12 million funding will be used to expand sales and marketing efforts around the world. Its investor base includes strategic and corporate backers alongside venture firms.

• Vivotech

  Participated · Series C · Jun 2011

  ViVOtech builds NFC payment software, contactless readers/writers, smart posters, and transaction-management infrastructure that enable short-range mobile payments. Its readers are deployed at major retailers including McDonald’s, Home Depot and Whole Foods and in taxi cabs. The company has shipped nearly one million NFC payment readers to 328 U.S. customers and 181 international customers and says it has shipped over half of the NFC payment terminals installed by merchants globally. Its technology is licensed by other companies and was used in Google Wallet’s NFC rollout; ViVOtech also teamed with the carrier joint venture Isis. The company reported sales in the “double-digit millions” as of last year. While ViVOtech says it stands to benefit from NFC growth, the broader consumer adoption of NFC payments remains uncertain. ViVOtech develops NFC payment software and systems, including payment software, NFC smart posters, contactless readers/writers, over‑the‑air card provisioning and transaction management infrastructure. The company has installed more than 800,000 NFC systems in 35 countries and its readers are deployed at retailers including McDonald's, Home Depot and Whole Foods as well as in taxi cabs. Its technology is frequently licensed by other companies and merchants to enable mobile payments, and Google used ViVOtech's technology for Google Wallet. For merchants that want to accept Google Wallet payments, ViVOtech provides NFC point‑of‑sale readers and has worked with Google, merchants and POS software vendors to integrate NFC readers with existing POS software. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported the company has 80% of the U.S. market for NFC readers and sales in "double‑digit millions." ViVOtech says the new funds will be used for further international expansion in Asia and other markets, and the company has reportedly been looking at an IPO in 2012. VivoTech builds infrastructure for wireless credit-card transactions, enabling payments via radio-frequency credit and debit cards and some mobile phones. The company has sold 470,000 payment terminals across 35 countries. It is developing systems to enable the same wireless payments in taxis, vending machines and ATMs. VivoTech is based in Santa Clara, Calif. Financially, the company added $8.6 million to a third round of funding that is now $40 million and has been open since 2007. Previously the company had raised $52 million; its backers include Alloy Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ Gotham, First Data, Miven Ventures, NCR, Nokia Growth Partners, Motorola Ventures and Citigroup.

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