Bucking the trend of semiconductor startups struggling to raise funding, eoSemi has raised a second round of $2.3m for its all-silicon oscillator IP. 

Cambridge terahertz imaging spinout TeraView has raised $5.5m from a consortium of global investors to accelerate the growth of its semiconductor, industrial and analytical business in Asia, the US and the EU. 

Mobile power equipment maker Power Oasis has raised £4.5m from Yorkshire fund YFM Equity Partners to help accelerate growth in the $3bn power market for mobile telecoms companies.

French design startup Starchip has raised €1.5 in its third round of funding and is working with Crocus Technology to embed magnetic logic into system-on-chip devices.

Dublin-based mobile multimedia processor designer Movidius has raised $9m in a round of funding that brings the total investment up to $30m. 

While there is lots of hype about Internet start-ups, it seems that the popular vote may be more sensible. The recent IBM SmartCamp in London saw a smart lighting spin-out from the University of Edinburgh win the 'People's Vote' against competition from an e-commerce data aggregator.
Cambridge start-up UltraSoC Technologies has appointed the former head of Renesas Europe as Non-Executive Chairman.

his week, entrepreneurship is being celebrated over the world in Global Entrepreneur Week, and a Northern Ireland-based intelligent crowdfunding site has raised nearly £23m for tech business startups.


prototype web pic.jpgA spin-out from the University of East Anglia has created a prototype of what it claims is the world's first hand-held fingerprint drug testing device.




Europe has recorded the lowest number of venture capital deals in a decade, according to the latest figures from Dow Jones VentureSource. Social media and entertainment start-ups, the heart of Silicon Roundabout in London, were hardest hit, while medical start-ups saw many more deals coming though.

Medical data services and systems startup Isansys Lifecare in Oxford has opened a new subsidiary in India.

A young UK company developing mobile technology to help with clinical trials has won backing of £3m from Scottish Equity Partners (SEP)

The venture capital industry is starting to look again at technology investments says London group Go4Venture which was an advisor in the recent sale of Spanish start-up ADD Semiconductor to Atmel.

There's never been a better time to invest in fabless start-ups as they are becoming increasingly scarce, says Henry Nurser, Chief Operating Officer of Bristol chip start-up Blu Wireless. This is due to the imbalance building up between supply and demand for these new companies by larger ones.

The SETsquared partnership is bringing 19 new companies to London this week to meet investors and pitch for funding.

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Nick Flaherty
Nick has been covering technology and startups since 1990 and is based in Bristol, where he co-founded the SiliconSouthWest network. During that time he has worked for most of the electronics magazines and newspapers in the UK and several in Europe and the US, covering all areas of the industry. He blogs at The Embedded blog and Portable Multimedia and at www.flaherty.co.uk.

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