Edgeware has closed a $8 million series B round of funding led by new investor, Micron Technology with full participation from Edgeware's Series A investors, Amadeus Capital Partners and Creandum Advisor.

The funds will be used to accelerate Edgeware's increasing presence in the global market. In particular, it will strengthen the ambitions in the North American market where the company already has a number of key customers.

OVGuide.com has received $5 million in venture capital funding from Baroda Ventures LLC, one of Los Angeles' leading VC firms. In addition, OVGuide.com in January 2009 saw its first operational month as a profit-making entity. The funding will be invested in engineering resources to further develop the Web's most powerful search engine for both short- and long-form online video. OVGuide.com has served hundreds of millions of searches, directing millions of users to thousands of online video sites such as South Park Studios, theWB.com, Fancast, ESPN, Funny or Die and Hulu.

Clipta has secured $500,000 in financing through Angel investment. In addition, Clipta also revealed it has successfully implemented the advanced self-learning deep Web crawler technology that will propel the company toward its goal of indexing one billion online videos worldwide by 2010.

Clipta.com has operated as one of the fastest growing worldwide video search provider since its first release in May of 2008. Over six months, Clipta's servers indexed approximately 35 million videos. Based on dramatic growth in online video and with the onset of Clipta's new deep crawling technology, Clipta expects to meaningfully index all searchable and available online videos.

Adap.tv has secured $13M in Series B venture funding. Led by Spark Capital, the Series B round also includes existing investors Redpoint Venture and Gemini Israel Fund. As part of the investment, Spark Capital General Partner Dennis Miller will join the Adap.tv board of directors. Adap.tv will use the financing to accelerate the development of its flagship offering Adap.tv OneSource and its adoption by video publishers and online ad networks.

Envivio has closed $25 million in new venture capital funding. This significant investment follows a period of exceptional growth at Envivio, averaging above 55% annually for the past five years, driven by major customer deployments for contribution and distribution applications in the Mobile TV, Internet TV and IPTV markets. Envivio has also completed the expansion of its senior management team with the appointments of John McAdoo as Chief Financial Officer and Richard Stanfield as Chief Operating Officer.

Verimatrix announces SunAmerica Ventures has joined the investor group in its recently announced Series C round of funding led by Goldman Sachs. The additional capital and expertise will accelerate the deployment of Verimatrix's 3-Dimensional Content Security solutions into the rapidly-evolving digital video market. New generations of solutions are being developed from Verimatrix's core Video Content Authority System, the global number one IPTV content protection solution.

Brightcove has appointed technology industry leader and entrepreneur Hisashige Hashimoto as general manager of Brightcove KK, Brightcove's Japan-based subsidiary. It was also announced that Web TV distribution giant, PRESENTCAST selected the Brightcove Internet video platform for gorin.jp, the exclusive online video portal in Japan for coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. gorin.jp is backed by all of Japan's commercial television broadcasters.

Entone raises $14.5M in venture funding. The Series B round was led by Coral Capital Management and includes existing investors Menlo Ventures and Scale Venture Partners. The funds will be used to support Entone's rapidly growing business and expanding product portfolio in support of global telecom operators providing IPTV and Broadband TV services.

Entone's flagship product, the award-winning Hydra IP Video Gateway, eliminates the need for set-top boxes and new home wiring to deliver IPTV services. Adding to Entone's Connected Home Solution is the company's next-generation media hub products that take Hydra's field-proven capabilities to the next level by integrating advanced services such as web-based video, personal content such as photo libraries, and enhanced viewing capabilities such as whole-home DVR and place shifting.

Verimatrix announced its Series C round of new funding led by Goldman Sachs. The new capital will fund aggressive business expansion and accelerate deployment of Verimatrix's 3-Dimensional Content Security solutions into the rapidly-evolving hybrid, cable and satellite markets around the world. New generations of products to address these markets will be developed from its global number one Verimatrix Video Content Authority System technology core.

Seesmic has received $6 million in series B financing co-led by Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and leading pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners. The new round brings the total funding amount raised by Seesmic to $12 million.

Seesmic enables users to share experiences on blogs, social networks and with each other by uploading videos straight from their webcam or mobile device. The company will use the investment to further develop its video platform and to start its global rollout. Seesmic initiatives will focus on its platform strategy with a robust API already powering video conversations on 1500 sites and blogs as well as new partnerships with leading consumer brands and media and entertainment companies.

Inuk Networks has completed a £9.5 million ($18.5m) second round of funding led by broadcaster S4C and venture capital firm Wesley Clover. The Inuk executive team will use this investment to further develop its Freewire triple-play platform in the UK, as well as expanding into Ireland and North America.

The investment by S4C has been made through its commercial subsidiary S4C Digital Media using commercial revenues only.

Iona Jones, S4C's Chief Executive and Chair of S4CDM, and David Sanders, a director of S4CDM, will both join the Inuk board of directors which is chaired by Simon Gibson OBE.

Veoh has received an additional round of funding led by Intel Capital, the global investment arm of Intel Corporation, and joined by Adobe Systems Incorporated and Gordon Crawford, senior vice president of Capital Research Global Investors. The funding from these new investors with support from existing investors Shelter Capital, Spark Capital, Goldman Sachs, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Time Warner Investments and Jonathan Dolgen totals $30 million. Veoh will use the capital to further enhance its viewer offerings, strengthen its lead in video discovery, expand its advertising products and targeting capabilities, and extend its services across multiple platforms.

Brightcove announces the formation of a majority-owned Japanese subsidiary, Brightcove KK. The new subsidiary is backed by $4.9 million in new investment from Brightcove Inc. and four market-leading Japanese strategic partners: Dentsu, J-Stream, transcosmos, and Cyber Communications. Three of the investment partners, Dentsu, J-Stream, and CCI, along with Brightcove Inc., will be sales agents for Brightcove KK in Japan, giving Brightcove KK immediate and powerful access to the Japanese market.

Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Brightcove KK will operate a localized version of Brightcove's award-winning, on-demand Internet TV platform, which is currently used by media companies and marketers across North America and Europe. With Brightcove KK, Japanese media companies and marketers will gain access to the most powerful and scalable software as a service solution available for online video players, distribution, and advertising.

USTelematics has announced that it has negotiated a purchase order financing facility with Star Funding, Inc. of New York City, for a minimum of $7 million in yearly funding volume.

The purchase order financing line was sought to dramatically boost USTelematics’ ability to satisfy customer demand for its Voyager Mobile IPTV hardware product.

TidalTV announces the closing of $15 million in Series A funding led by New Enterprise Associates and Valhalla Partners. This funding will enable the company to accelerate the development of the TidalTV platform and expand and enhance its available programming. TidalTV offers consumers free and instant access to professionally produced online video programming via its streaming, browser-based platform.

TidalTV’s seed financing was provided by Scott Ferber, co-founder of AOL’s Advertising.com and current chairman of TidalTV. TidalTV’s executive staff also includes Chief Executive Officer Mollie Spilman, former chief sales and marketing officer of Advertising.com; Chief Revenue Officer Brad Elders, former senior vice president of North American sales for Internet television provider Joost, and Chief Content Officer Bob Quicksilver, former president of network distribution at FOX Broadcast Company.