Violin Memory, Inc. said it raised $50 million in Series D funding, giving the company a market value of more than $800 million. Investors in the round include Toshiba, Juniper Networks and new investors SAP Ventures and Highland Capital. PRESS RELEASE Violin Memory Flashes Forward with a $50 Million Mezzanine Round and $800+ Million Valuation [...]

Four of the five companies have collectively raised more than $460 million in venture capital from firms including Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital and Technology Crossover Ventures.

Semiconductor investing isn’t as trendy as it was, say, 30 years ago, but U.S. venture money going to chip startups rose 63% from the fourth quarter to the first. The increase followed two quarters of declines and came even as the number of deals slipped slightly. The uptick is due in large part to several [...]

Violin Memory, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of Flash memory enterprise systems, has acquired the technology assets of Gear6, a developer of storage caching solutions. No financial terms were disclosed. Violin Memory has raised over $16 million from Toshiba Corp., while Gear6 raised more than $24 million from Horizon Ventures, U.S. Venture Partners and InterWest Partners

Violin Memory, a Mountain View, Calif.-based developer of Flash memory enterprise systems, has raised an undisclosed amount of VC funding from Toshiba Corp. A January regulatory filing indicated that Violin Memory had secured around $16 million of a possible $27 million funding round.