01/11/10 — Manufacturer of high definition 3-D lidar sensors now has distributor offices in Germany, China, Israel, South Korea and the UK. Velodyne Lidar, Inc., a manufacturer of high definition 3-D lidar sensors, has secured international agreements with five major distributors worldwide to expand marketing for the company’s sensor products.  The extended distributor network includes offices in Germany, China, Israel, South Korea and the UK. The Velodyne HDL-64E is used by commercial, government and defense organizations for high-precision 3D mapping, surveying and security along with applications for terrestrial and marine autonomous vehicles and robotics.  The new distributors are the exclusive channel for…

10/21/09 — New strategic investors signal the importance of 3-D natural interfaces to the future of PCs and other consumer devices. A provider of mass-market 3-D image sensors, Canesta, Inc. announced it has raised $16 million in additional capitalization. Joining returning investors Carlyle Growth Partners, Hotung Venture Group, and Venrock are two new strategic investors — Quanta Computer Inc. (2382.TW), the world’s largest manufacturer of notebook computers, and SMSC (NASDAQ: SMSC), a leading provider of smart mixed-signal connectivity solutions. Canesta has invented a family of tiny CMOS 3-D “camera” chips that can provide a real-time, 3-D “depth map” of the surrounding area…