VC: Sequoia gets $25 million in fifth round of financing



Sequoia gets $25 million in fifth round of financing.

VENTURE CAPITAL

COMPANY

AMOUNT/ROUND

LEAD INVESTORS

DESCRIPTION

Sequoia Communications
San Diego

$25M
fifth

BlueRun Ventures

The chipmaker says it has developed the first and only HSDPA/WEDGE (HSDPA/WCDMA, EDGE, GPRS, GSM) transmitter using its polar modulation architecture for all modes.

Ember
Boston

$12M
third

Polaris Venture Partners

Ember focuses on Zigbee technology and plans to use the funds to ramp up manufacturing.

MobileAccess Networks
Vienna, VA

$11M
N/A

Ziegler Meditech Equity Partners

The funding will help MobileAccess further penetrate the health care market for wireless information delivery in hospitals.