{"id":925,"date":"2007-03-07T01:22:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=925"},"modified":"2007-03-07T01:22:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T18:22:55","slug":"rfid-designer-gets-21-million-in-venture-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/rfid-designer-gets-21-million-in-venture-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"RFID designer gets $21 million in venture funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong>Four years after realigning itself as a designer of RFID systems for wireless Internet networks, AeroScout has received a $21 million third round of venture capital that brings its total funding to $41 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two new Silicon Valley firms joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aeroscout.com\/\">AeroScout<\/a>&#8216;s investor syndicate for the new round, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menloventures.com\/\">Menlo Ventures<\/a> of Menlo Park, Calif., leading the round. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greylock.com\/\">Greylock Partners<\/a> of San Mateo, Calif., was the other first-time investor.<\/p>\n<p>The new money will support continued sales, marketing and development of San Mateo-based AeroScout&#8217;s product line, a system of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/RFID+coming+to+scooters%2C+diapers\/2100-1012_3-6148862.html\" title=\"RFID coming to scooters, diapers -- Tuesday, Jan 9, 2007\">radio frequency identification tags<\/a> and sensors that operates on networks using <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Your+Wi-Fi+can+tell+people+a+lot+about+you\/2100-7355_3-6163666.html\" title=\"Your Wi-Fi can tell people a lot about you -- Thursday, Mar 1, 2007\">the Wi-Fi wireless standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/RFID+designer+gets+21+million+in+venture+funding\/2100-1039_3-6164260.html?tag=alert\">click here <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after realigning itself as a designer of RFID systems for wireless Internet networks, AeroScout has received a $21 million third round of venture capital that brings its total funding to $41 million. Two new Silicon Valley firms joined AeroScout&#8216;s investor syndicate for the new round, with Menlo Ventures of Menlo Park, Calif., leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}