Thursday, November 4, 2004Rockwell Scientific Ships DACThousand Oaks-based Rockwell Scientific Company announced a new line of semiconductors for communication products and airborne radar systems. The company's RDA012RZ and RDA112RZ 12-bit return-to-zero (RZ) digital-to-analog converters (DAC) are available in conjunction with an evaluation board for manufacturers. The company said that the digital analog converters have already been designed into products and radar systems.
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CallWave Adds Board MembersSanta Barbara-based CallWave announced this morning that it has appointed Jeffrey Henley and Michael Noling to its board of directors. Henley is Chairman of database giant Oracle, and served as Oracle's Chief Financial Officer and EVP. Noling was the President and CEO of Wavefront Technologies, and served on the boards of Transoft Networks, Centric Software, and Motion Engineering. The company also said that John Greathouse has also been named as Executive Vice President of Sales and Business De (More info...)
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NSF Funds Material Sciences Program at UCSBThe University of California, Santa Barbara, is reporting that the National Science Foundation has selected the university to host a new center for materials research. The new International Center for Materials Research will receive $3.5M over 5 years to promote global excellence in materials science. and engineering. The center will provide an international forum for scientists and engineers with interests in materials science, and will develop workshops, exchange programs, visitors programs, a (More info...)
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Venture Capital Investments in Q3 SlowA recent report shows that the U.S. venture capital market showed its usual slowing last quarter, despite another report this week that showed a healthy increase in fundraising by venture firms. The Ernst & Young and VentureOne Quarterly Venture Capital Report, released last week, showed that nationally $4.56B was invested in 467 deals. The deals and amounts invested were down from Q3 of last year. However, the report pointed out that seed and first roudn deals were up significantly, as vent (More info...)
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Chimerix Finds $11MLa Jolla-based Chimerix announced that it has raised a Series C round of funding for its biotechnology for the development of orally available medicines. The funding was led by Frazier Healthcare Ventures, with participation from existing investors Sanderling Ventures and Asset Management Company. Robert Overell of Frazier will join the company's board. The company said that the funding would be used for advancing their current therapeutic programs and to broaden the application of their proprie (More info...)
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Catalytic Solutions Raises $10MOxnard-based Catalytic Solutions has raised a $10M mezzanine financing round. The funding came from The SAM Group, and Presidio Venture Partners (Sumitomo). Catalytic Solutions is developing advanced catalytic coatings designed to improve the efficiency of automobiles. Catalytic Solutions said that it has products in mass production for Honda, GM, and Ford. The company also that it anticipates that this will be the last round of funding that the company will require. The company had previously r (More info...)
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Interview with John Greathouse, CallWaveJohn Greathouse is the new EVP Sales and Business Development of CallWave, which recently had an IPO on the NASDAQ under the symbol CALL. I spoke with John to see how the IPO has gone, as well as to get an idea of where the company is going. BK: Congratulations on your recent IPO. For those who aren't familiar with Callwave, can you explain what services Callwave offers? JG: We provide VoIP applications that enhance the existing telecom services used by mainstream homes and home/small offices (More info...)
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