Mintera
Company

Last deal

$1.65M

Amount

Debt Financing

Stage

07.05.2010

Date

3

all rounds

$88.15M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Mintera Corporation develops and markets high-speed optical transmission systems.

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founded date

01.01.2000

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Debt Financing

IPO status

Private

Description

The Acton, Massachusetts-based company offers MI 40000XS, a transport subsystem for carriers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government agencies. Their fiber-optic transport systems allow for the deployment of optical transport in various networks, including metro-core, regional, long-haul, and ultra-long-haul. Mintera Corporation's next-generation 40 Gbps optical technology enables clients to supervise optical channels carrying signals.
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M&A Details
1

Transaction name

Acquired by

Oclaro

announced date

21.07.2010

Financials

Funding Rounds
8
3

Number of Funding Rounds

$88.15M

Money Raised

Their latest funding was raised on 07.05.2010. Their latest round Debt Financing

Date 
Funding Round 
Investors 
Money Raised 
Lead 
07.05.2010
$1.65M
21.10.2009
$4M
08.04.2009
$1M
Co-Investors
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8
2

Number of lead investors

8

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Investor 
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Round 
Partners 
Yes
Series B, Series C
No
Series B, Series C
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People

Founders
1
Benny Mikkelsen
Benny Mikkelsen

Benny Mikkelsen

Benny Mikkelsen has extensive expertise and experience in optical transmission technologies. Prior to co-founding Acacia Communications, Mikkelsen co-founded Mintera Corporation (acquired by Oclaro). Earlier he held engineering positions with Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies, where his research included ultra high-speed optical transmission. Mikkelsen has published more than 200 papers and conference contributions in Letters, Journals and Conferences (including approximately 25 invited papers). He is a member of the OFC Program Committee and has delivered short courses on 40G and 100G at OFC since 2005. Mikkelsen holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark

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