Irvine’s Solarflare Communications Inc., one of Orange County’s best-funded chip startups, has landed at least $15 million in funding, according to reports.
Another source close to the company put the latest round at about $30 million, which brings Solarflare’s total raised to roughly $130 million.
Solarflare declined to comment for this story.
The investors leading the round weren’t disclosed. Prior funding has come from Oak Investment Partners LP of Westport, Conn., Corona del Mar’s Miramar Venture Partners and Santa Monica-based Anthem Venture Partners and Intel Capital, a unit of Intel Corp, among others.
Solarflare’s chips and controllers go into servers made by Dell Inc. and IBM Corp., which sell them to companies for their data centers.
Its chips allowed higher speed networks to be hooked up to lower capacity-ones.
