Atlantis Computing said it raised $20 million in a Series D round of funding led by Adams Street Partners and joined by existing investors Cisco Systems, El Dorado Ventures and Partech International. The company said it has now raised a total of $35 million in funding.

Mashery’s sale to Intel for a reported $180 million-plus appears to be a good outcome for Mashery’s venture investors, including .406 Ventures, Cisco Systems, First Round Capital, Formative Ventures, OpenView Venture Partners and SoftTech VC.

Cisco Systems said it completed its acquisition of privately held Intucell. The network giant paid about $475 million in cash and retention-based incentives for the operations of the Ra’anana, Israel, -based company.

Piston Cloud Computing Inc. said it raised $8 million in a Series B funding supported by Cisco Systems, Data Collective, Swisscom Ventures, Divergent Ventures, Hummer Winblad and True Ventures. The money will go to product development and company growth.

Bessemer Ventures Partners scored big Wednesday when Cisco Systems said it will acquire Intucell for $475 million in cash and retention incentives.

Cisco Systems said it would acquire privately held Meraki Inc., a San Francisco cloud networking startup with investors including Sequoia Capital, Google and DAG Ventures. Cisco will pay about $1.2 billion in cash and retention-based incentives. Meraki’s offerings will expand Cisco’s product portfolio in the midmarket.

Included on the list of active players are Salesforce.com, Adobe Systems and Cisco Systems. Even Johnson & Johnson talks about its efforts to fuel innovation and potentially pull the most attractive companies in house.

Cisco Systems said it plans to acquire privately held Truviso, Inc., a Foster City, Calif., company that provides network data analysis and reporting software. No terms were disclosed. PRESS RELEASE Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Truviso Acquisition Reinforces Cisco’s Commitment to Intelligent Networking by Providing Customers with Enhanced, Real-Time Data Analytics SAN JOSE, Calif. – [...]

David McClure has alluded rather vaguely during recent public appearances to a new fund at 500 Startups. Now we know for sure.

First it was Bessemer Venture Partners and Cisco Systems signing on. Now Wermuth Asset Management says it signed a memorandum of understanding to become a venture partner of the Skolkovo Foundation. Under the agreement, Wermuth will consider investing in projects approved for financing by the Skolkovo Foundation, the non-profit foundation established by the Russian government [...]