{"id":311,"date":"2003-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vivato-raises-445-million-in-series-c-funding-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2003\/vivato-raises-445-million-in-series-c-funding-round.html","title":{"rendered":"Vivato Raises $44.5 Million in Series C Funding Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;June 23, 2003&#8211;Vivato, a Wi-Fi infrastructure company, today announced it raised $44.5 million in its Series C funding round, bringing the total investment in thecompany to $67 million.<\/p>\n<p>  Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a leading bi-coastal venture capital firm, led Vivato&#8217;s third funding round and was joined by all of Vivato&#8217;s previous investors, including Leapfrog Ventures,  U.S. Venture Partners, Walden International and Intel Communications Fund.<\/p>\n<p>  Vivato will use the funds to sustain the momentum for production of its first 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi switch, which started shipping to customers this month, and to develop its next generation wireless local  area network (WLAN) product line.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;As the first company to develop an indoor\/outdoor wireless switch, Vivato is revolutionizing the wireless industry. The company&#8217;s unique technology enables faster, more secure Wi-Fi connections  over longer distances, satisfying an explosive market,&#8221; said Jos Henkens, general partner, Advanced Technology Ventures. &#8220;We feel that Vivato has the right combination of innovative technology, an  experienced management team, and a group of investors committed to seeing the company succeed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We appreciate ATV&#8217;s leadership in this round of funding and believe their participation is a tremendous vote of confidence for Vivato&#8217;s approach for achieving ubiquitous Wi-Fi,&#8221; said Ken Biba,  Vivato co-founder, CEO and chairman. &#8220;The strength of ATV&#8217;s support and the additional investment from existing investors puts Vivato on solid ground for continued innovation and delivery of 802.11  products.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  About Vivato<\/p>\n<p>  Vivato is the inventor and first manufacturer of Wi-Fi switches for enterprises and service providers designed to enable high bandwidth Wi-Fi wireless networks everywhere: in the enterprise, across  campuses and throughout metropolitan areas. Vivato is headquartered in San Francisco with a research and development center in Spokane, Wash. For more information, please visit www.vivato.net or  call 415\/495-1111.<\/p>\n<p>  About ATV<\/p>\n<p>  Founded in 1979, Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV) is a bi-coastal venture capital firm with more than $1.5 billion in capital under management. ATV works closely with entrepreneurial teams across  several markets, including communications, IT infrastructure, software and services, and healthcare, to build emerging-growth business ventures into market leaders. For more information, visit  www.atvcapital.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO&#8211;(BUSINESS WIRE)&#8211;June 23, 2003&#8211;Vivato, a Wi-Fi infrastructure company, today announced it raised $44.5 million in its Series C funding round, bringing the total investment in thecompany to $67 million. Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), a leading bi-coastal venture capital firm, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}