Rightware, a Finland-based developer of user interfaces for mobiles and mobile applications, has closed a $4.3 million (€3 million) round of funding from Finnish VC firms Nexit Ventures Oy and Inventure Oy. The company has also acquired the Mobile and Embedded business unit from Futuremark, from which it was spun off only last month, for an undisclosed sum.
Rightware develops and markets a 3D graphical UI solution called Kanzi, which it sells into both the mobile and automotive industries. 3D user interfaces have become a standard, and very central, feature in touch-screen handsets. Rightware’s customers include Texas Instruments, Imagination Technologies, China Mobile and Audi. The UK chip maker Imagination counts Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC) among its customers and investors.
Rightware’s purchase of Futuremark’s mobile and embedded business division includes all of the unit’s intellectual property rights, assets and liabilities. Some of the platforms currently using the technology include Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, Linux and mobile Java. TMC notes that Futuremark will use the sale to concentrate on games development and its PC Benchmarks operations. Release
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