Any.DO is a to-do list app company that has raised $3.5 million in a seed round of funding led by Genesis Partners with participation from Innovation Endeavors, Joe Lonsdale, Blumberg Capital, Joe Greenstein, and several other investors according to TheNextWeb
SiSense is a business intelligence (BI) software company that has created Prism. Prism is an end-to-end business intelligence software application that was designed to be used by people with little experience in business intelligence development. Prism utilizes ElastiCube technology, which is a high-performance database that can maximize the RAM and CPU on servers. The company has raised $10 million in funding led by Battery Ventures with participation from Opus Capital and Genesis Partners.
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Valens Semiconductor, which makes semiconductors for distributing HD content, has raised $14 million in funding. The investors include Pegatron, Mitsui & Co Global Investment, Amiti Ventures, Aviv Venture Capital, Genesis Partners and Magma Venture Partners. [TechCrunch]
Private equity firm Silver Lake is known for their investments in Skype and other technology companies. Now Silver Lake has invested an undisclosed amount in PrimeSense Inc. PrimeSense is the company responsible for designing some of the components that went into the Microsoft Kinect. Microsoft has shipped about 8 million Kinects thus far.
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