Figure 8 Wireless Raises $3.6 Million for ZigBee

Figure 8 Wireless, a start-up based in San Diego, secured $3.6 million in new funding for its firmware and software for wireless device networking based on the ZigBee standard and the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard. Figure 8 Wireless said it has the first commercially available ZigBee network stack product and development tools for the ZigBee standard. The product is currently ported to Freescale's processor radio products based on the 802.15.4 protocol. Figure 8 recently released its ZigBee version 0.80 compliant solution to customers, and products are expected on store shelves in early 2005.



The venture funding was led by Avalon Ventures and included The Viterbi Group, Cardinal Ventures and Freescale Semiconductor. Cardinal and Freescale are new investors in Figure 8. http://www.f8w.com/