Intel Capital, Intel's investment arm, invested $26 million in six companies: open source mobile software solutions company Borqs; location-based mapping platform and tools provider CloudMade; QuantumFilm-based image sensor vendor InVisage; open source online video platform Kaltura; online authentication provider SecureKey Technologies; and unified communications and collaboration software provider VisionOSS Solutions.
Borqs (Beijing) is described as “an Android software integrator for mobile devices.” One of its products, OPhone OS (short for Open Mobile Phone Operating System), is an open platform founded on Android and built for mobile terminal software for the Internet, 
CloudMade (Menlo Park, Calif.) provides more than 16,000 developers with the tools and APIs needed to build location-based applications and services for Web and mobile platforms. Examples include Map My Tracks, an outdoor social networking app; GayCities, an app for finding nearby gay bars and restaurants; and OffMaps, an app that lets you search maps without an Internet connection. 
Kaltura (New York) builds an open source online video platform that over 100,000 websites now use. The platform offers support for virtually all online video needs: video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising Some of Kaltura’s most prominent customers include Sony Music, Wikipedia, AAA and Pepsi. 
InVisage (Menlo Park, Calif.) is developing QuantumFilm, new image sensors intended to replace silicon as the light capture material in mobile devices. With QuantumFilm, camera phones and digital cameras will be able to record higher resolution photographs than currently capable.
SecureKey (Toronto) provides a combined hardware and software solution aiming to eliminate the risk of fraud. The company relies on credit and debit “smartcards” enhanced with advanced cryptographic capabilities.
VisionOSS (Reading, UK), abbreviated (VOSS), provides a unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) service delivery and management platform to service providers and large enterprise customers.The company plans to open clinics in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Maryland next year
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Kaltura provides the world’s first Open Source Online Video Platform. With Kaltura, publishers of all sizes can easily, quickly, and cost effectively enhance their web site with video and interactive rich-media functionalities, including video management, searching, uploading, importing, editing, annotating, remixing, sharing, and advertising.
Unlike the alternative proprietary solutions, Kaltura’s platform is completely flexible, extendable and free. Web publishers, Value-Added- Resellers, and Integrators use our software development kit to customize a unique rich-media experience that fits their specific purposes, and seamlessly integrates with many popular content management systems. Moreover, Kaltura’s reference implementations and growing library of applications, extensions and plug-ins allow publishers to select off the shelf solutions for rapid self-serve deployments that can be fully enabled within minutes. Kaltura also provides supplementary paid services including maintenance, support, integration, professional development, streaming and hosting, ad serving, content syndication, and aggregation of related third party services.
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CloudMade make maps differently.
We source data from OpenStreetMap, the community who are building a crowd sourced map of the world.
CloudMade offer you unique datasets made from some of the most up to date geo-data available. We take the pain out of using OpenStreetMap data by providing a range of hosted services which allow you to use CloudMade's data for routing, desktop, mobile or web applications.
