• Siano Lands $23.5 Million For Mobile TV Receiver Chips

    Monday, January 11th, 2010

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Israeli startup Siano Mobile Silicon, a developer of mobile digital TV receiver chips, has just raised a $23.5 million in funding from Jerusalem Venture Partners, DFJ Tamir Fishman, Star Ventures, Walden Israel, and Bessemer Venture Partners. This brings the startup’s total funding to $75.5 million.

    Founded in late 2004, Siano develops and markets silicon semiconductor chips for reception of digital TV on mobile, portable and hand-held devices. The company’s chips are mainly used for the implementation of mobile TV in emerging markets such as China, Brazil and Europe. The company supplies its chips to Samsung, Motorola, ZTE, Huawei, Mio, Garmin, Dell and others. The new funding will be used for product development and market expansion.

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