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Motorola Ventures MidWest
1303 E. Algonquin Road
Schaumburg, IL, 60196
USA

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Motorola Ventures

Motorola Ventures helps turn great new ideas into thriving businesses. They are not a lab, but like one, they are about discovery. They focus on opportunities that complement Motorola’s total business strategy. They evaluate “new idea companies,” the people and technologies behind them and the vision they bring. They identify cutting-edge technology investments that will help them to achieve the best solutions to fit their customers’ needs. Every investment is a strategic alliance encapsulated by vision, creativity, and business acumen. Bringing together talent and sharing dreams allows them to achieve more together than they can alone.

Motorola Ventures represents a diversified portfolio with a typical investment ranging from $3 million to $5 million. Their purpose is to nurture a venture company through its critical phases of start-up, growth and expansion. In addition to providing financial support, they offer business and technology expertise, market leadership and brand recognition to growing companies with compelling business plans. In turn, the companies they invest in introduce us to new ideas, new technologies and new markets. The result - strategic and financial value and, ultimately, competitive advantage.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Onavo 1/12Series B$10M4
Kineto Wireless 11/10Debt$3M4
Cleversafe 10/10Series C$31.4M3
KXEN 6/10Series D$8M5
INVIDI Technologies 5/10Series D$23M7
Zenverge 4/10Series C$30M4
Apprion 3/10Series C$8M5
TuneWiki 2/10Series B$7M6
Scanbuy 2/10Venture Round1
Sensitive Object 12/09Series B$6.04M2
Cedar Point Communications 12/09Debt$2M8
Sequans Communications 11/09Venture Round2
GreenPeak Technologies 10/09Series B$19M5
Dilithium Networks 10/09Venture Round$10.9M6
Ruckus 9/09Series F$10.7M5
Amimon 7/09Venture Round$10M5
Zephyr Technology 7/09Series B$2M1
ZoomSystems 2/09Series E$20M6
Lumidigm 1/09Series C$7M9
Dexterra 10/08Venture Round$21.5M6
OpenCloud 7/08Series B$10M4
VirtualLogix 4/08Series C1
DesignArt Networks 2/08Series B3
Intelleflex 12/07Series C$15.5M6
INSIDE Contactless 12/07Series C$44.4M12
Ruckus Wireless 11/07Series E$7.5M9
BDNA 10/07Series D$20M4
mFoundry 10/07Series C$15M6
BroadLight 9/07Series E$12M9
AmberPoint 4/07Venture Round$9M5
Dexterra 2/07Venture Round$36M6
Dexterra 2/07Series E$36M6
AirClic 2/07Series C$12.5M3
Tango Networks 2/07Series A$25M5
SkyBitz 2/07Series D$10M6
OpenCloud 1/07Series A$10M3
Mobile Complete 12/06Venture Round$10M2
Dilithium Networks 11/06Series D$16.8M5
Extricom 10/06Series C$12M4
Ruckus Wireless 10/06Venture Round$16M4
Ruckus 10/06Series D$16M2
ZoomSystems 10/06Series D$35M4
NextNine 9/06Series C$10M7
Handmark 9/06Series B$5M5
Aligo 6/06Venture Round$7.92M4
Avvenu 6/06Venture Round$1.5M3
GreenPeak Technologies 5/06Venture Round$11.1M4
AmberPoint 3/06Series D$19.3M6
Apertio 2/06Series B$30M6
Dexterra 2/06Series D$18M5
Anam Mobile 2/06Series B$16.9M3
Extricom 1/06Series C$3M2
Spotwave Wireless 1/06Venture Round$10M7
ColorChip 1/06Series C$14.6M6
BroadLight 11/05Series D$10M8
Lumidigm 10/05Series B$8.1M7
Molecular Imprints 9/05Series C$17M6
Dexterra 8/05Series C$11M5
Navini Networks 8/05Series E$13.4M6
Cedar Point Communications 8/05Series D$15M8
BDNA 4/05Series C$12.5M4
Digital Safety Technologies 4/05Venture Round$41.1M5
Dilithium Networks 3/05Series C$18M6
Lumus 1/05Series B$6M2
Dilithium Networks 4/03Series B$10M5
Viewpoint Digital 2/92Venture Round$2M1

Videos

Sources

  1. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  2. Kineto Wireless gets $3M to improve mobile phone coverage (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  3. Cleversafe Receives $31.4 Million in Funding to Drive Continued Company Expansion and Growth (cleversafe.com) [edit]
  4. KXEN Secures $8 Million in Series D Funding (businesswire.com) [edit]
  5. Google Leads $23 Million Round In TV Ad Startup Invidi (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. ZENVERGE CLOSES $30 MILLION SERIES C FINANCING LED BY BATTERY VENTURES (freshnews.com) [edit]
  7. Apprion Obtains $8,000,000 Series C Funding Round (xconomy.com) [edit]
  8. Social Music Player TuneWiki Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  9. Mobile Barcode Company Scanbuy Raises Funding From Motorola Ventures, Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Motorola Invests in Sensitive Object (sensitiveobject.fr) [edit]
  11. Cedar Point pulls in $2M in debt funding (masshightech.com) [edit]
  12. Sequans Secures Funding from Alcatel-Lucent and Motorola Ventures for LTE Development (freshnews.com) [edit]
  13. GreenPeak secures €13M (US$19M) in Series B funding (greenpeak.com) [edit]
  14. Dilithium lands $10.9M for wireless multimedia systems (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  15. Ruckus nabs $10.7M for Wi-Fi for internet TV (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  16. Amimon raises $10 million for high-definition video wireless networking (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  17. Zephyr Technology Corp.: Series B $2M (onbiovc.com) [edit]
  18. Zoom Systems Secures $20 Million In Financing (vendingmarketwatch.com) [edit]
  19. lumidigm.com [edit]
  20. Dexterra Secures $21.5 Million Funding Round Led by New Enterprise Associates (marketwatch.com) [edit]
  21. OpenCloud announces $10 million investment to drive commercial delivery (opencloud.com) [edit]
  22. Motorola Invests in VirtualLogix (motorola.com) [edit]
  23. Press Release (designartnetworks.com) [edit]
  24. VentureBeat (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  25. Nokia Growth Partners leads Series C investment round in INSIDE Contactless (insidecontactless.com) [edit]
  26. Ruckus Wireless raises $7.5M more for IPTV router (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  27. DNA Closes $20M in Latest Funding Round, Appoints New Chief Executive (bdna.com) [edit]
  28. MFoundry, mobile financial services company, raises $15M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  29. BroadLight, optical communications co, raises $12M more. (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  30. Amberpoint raises $9M for SOA runtime governance software (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  31. Dexterra Closes $36 Million Funding Round Led by New Enterprise Associates (businesswire.com) [edit]
  32. 3rd Big Wireless Field Worker App Funding This Week - Dexterra Raises $35M+ (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  33. AirClic Secures $12.5 Million in Venture Capital Funding (airclic.com) [edit]
  34. Tango Networks Secures $25 Million Series A Funding (americanventuremagazine.com) [edit]
  35. SkyBitz Secures $10 mil. in Series D Funding and Announces Key Appointments to Board of Directors (skybitz.com) [edit]
  36. OpenCloud receives $10million from Advent Venture Partners, Motorola and No 8 Ventures to accelerate global adoption of JAIN SLEE (opencloud.com) [edit]
  37. Mobile Complete, a handset testing service, raises around $10M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  38. Dilithium, a broadband and wireless video co., raises $16.77M (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  39. Extricom Lands US$12 Million Series C Financing (euroinvestor.co.uk) [edit]
  40. Investors Put $16M in Ruckus (internetnews.com) [edit]
  41. Ruckus Wireless has raised $16M for TV WiFi (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  42. zoomsystems.com [edit]
  43. NextNine Closes Financing Round Led by Motorola Ventures (nextnine.com) [edit]
  44. Handmark Closes Series B Funding (handmark.com) [edit]
  45. EDGAR [edit]
  46. EDGAR [edit]
  47. EDGAR [edit]
  48. EDGAR [edit]
  49. apertio.com [edit]
  50. Dexterra to Snag Cash and CFO (redherring.com) [edit]
  51. EDGAR [edit]
  52. EDGAR [edit]
  53. Spotwave Continues Growth: Closes $10 Million in Venture (spotwave.com) [edit]
  54. EDGAR [edit]
  55. BroadLight Closes $10 Million Series D Financing Led by Motorola (broadlight.com) [edit]
  56. Lumidigm secures US$8.1 Million funding (sciencedirect.com) [edit]
  57. MOLECULAR IMPRINTS COMPLETES $17M FINANCING (molecularimprints.com) [edit]
  58. Dexterra Acquires Mobile Java Company Octaneware Also Receives $11 Million Funding (ne.sys-con.com) [edit]
  59. VC: Wireless Networks and Mobile Content (m.fiercewireless.com) [edit]
  60. Cedar Point adds $15 M to coffers (cedmagazine.com) [edit]
  61. BDNA Corporation Announces $12.5 Million in Funding; Ossama Hassanein of Newbury Ventures, Pat House of Siebel Systems, and Ernie von Simson of Ostriker von Simson Join Board of IT Governance Software Vendor (findarticles.com) [edit]
  62. EDGAR [edit]
  63. Dilithium Secures $18M (unstrung.com) [edit]
  64. EDGAR [edit]
  65. Motorola, Ericsson Back $10M Series B Funding for Dilithium Networks (embeddedstar.com) [edit]
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