Tech Company Financing Transactions

D2S Funding Round

Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and Advantest participated in a $9 million Series B venture round for D2S. The financing round was announced on 4/1/2009.

Transaction Overview

Company Name

D2S

Announced On

4/1/2009

Transaction Type

Venture Equity

Amount

$9,000,000

Round

Series B

Investors

Benchmark Capital (Lead Investor) (Alexander Balkanski)

DAG Ventures (Lead Investor) (Nick Pianim)

Advantest

Cadence Design Systems

Proceeds Purpose

This latest round of funding will allow D2S to change this equation.

Company Information

Company Status

Private & Independent

Industry

Software

Mailing Address

4040 Moorpark Ave. 250
San Jose, CA 95117
USA

Phone

(408) 985-0288

Website

www.direct2silicon.com

Email Address

[email protected]

Overview

Direct2Silicon is a newly-formed, venture-backed company providing software and IP that enables direct write e-beam lithography for production of System-on-Chip integrated circuits (SoCs). Reductions both in design time and manufacturing turnaround time are achieved when neither optical lithography nor masks are needed to make integrated circuits.

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Management Team

Title

Name

Email & Social

Chief Executive Officer

Aki Fujimura

VP - Bus. Development

Yoshio Tanaka

VP - Operations

James Fong

VP - Product Management

Leo Pang

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