Tech Company Financing Transactions

SiliconBlue Technologies Funding Round

SiliconBlue Technologies closed a $24 million Series B venture capital round on 10/22/2008. Investors included New Enterprise Associates, BlueRun Ventures and Crosslink Capital.

Transaction Overview

Announced On
10/22/2008
Transaction Type
Venture Equity
Amount
$24,000,000
Round
Series B
Investors

New Enterprise Associates (Lead Investor) (Brooke Seawell)

BlueRun Ventures (Antti Kokkinen)

Crosslink Capital (Michael Stark)

Proceeds Purpose
SiliconBlue plans to use the funding to accelerate the next phase of the company's growth by expanding sales operations globally to support new customers. SiliconBlue is the most capital-efficient startup, first funded in August 2006 with $16M venture capital that has delivered 65nm Ultra Low Power SRAM-based FPGA, proven NVCM (Non-volatile Configuration Memory) technology, fully functional software tools and the broadest range of IP for consumer handheld applications.

Company Information

Company Status
Acquired or Merged
Industry
Semiconductors
Mailing Address
3255 Scott Blvd. Bld. 7 101
Santa Clara, CA 95054
USA
Email Address
Overview
SiliconBlue has built from ground up, the first single-chip, reprogrammable, ultra-low power FPGA optimized for handheld, mobile applications.
Profile
SiliconBlue Technologies LinkedIn Company Profile
Social Media
SiliconBlue Technologies Company Twitter Account
Company News
SiliconBlue Technologies News
Facebook
SiliconBlue Technologies on Facebook
YouTube
SiliconBlue Technologies on YouTube

Management Team

Title
Name
Email & Social
Chief Executive Officer
Kapil Shankar
  Kapil Shankar LinkedIn Profile  Kapil Shankar Twitter Account  Kapil Shankar News  Kapil Shankar on Facebook
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Hasley
  Michael Hasley LinkedIn Profile  Michael Hasley Twitter Account  Michael Hasley News  Michael Hasley on Facebook
VP - Engineering
Andrew Chan
  Andrew Chan LinkedIn Profile  Andrew Chan Twitter Account  Andrew Chan News  Andrew Chan on Facebook
VP - Engineering
D. J. Wang
  D. J. Wang LinkedIn Profile  D. J. Wang Twitter Account  D. J. Wang News  D. J. Wang on Facebook
VP - Marketing
Denny Steele
  Denny Steele LinkedIn Profile  Denny Steele Twitter Account  Denny Steele News  Denny Steele on Facebook


 

 

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